AWARD OP THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 3091 



vessels are engaged with a total tonnage 420,000 tons about Co ton* 

 each worth about $60, per ton 2.520,000. 



2S. What percentage of value, if any, is, in your judgment, added to 

 the profits of a voyage by the privilege to tisli within three inarm.- mil.-., 

 of the coast; whence is seen profit derived; and in what doe* it . 

 sist ? Do not think the privilege to fish within 3 milt* in of any \ aim- 

 Official annoyance is what we complain of 



29. Do the American fishermen gain under tin- Treaty of Washington 

 any valuable rights of landing to dry nets and cure fish, or to rvpark 

 them, or to transship cargoes, which were not theirs before ; if HO, wuat 

 are those rights, and what do you estimate them to b worth ftunnallr 

 in the aggregate? I think we do not gain any rights of any value AM 

 the Canadians will be greatly benetitted by the treaty. 



30. Is not the Treaty of Washington, so far as the fishing clanto* are 

 concerned, more, or quite as, beneficial to the people of the lirinli 

 North American Provinces as to the people of the United Stair* ! Tbe 

 Canadians will have the most benifit 



31. What is the amount and value of colonial cargoes of fish of all de- 

 scriptions which are annually shipped to the United States T Do not 

 know 



32. For all No. 1 and No. 2 mackerel, for the larger part of the fat 

 herring, and for all No. 1 salmon, does not the United States uffoni the 

 only market. It does 



33. If you know what amount of duties is annually paid to the United 

 States on fish and fish-oil imported from Canada, which are to IN* made 

 free under the provisions of the Treaty of Washington, plea** nUtle 

 them annually, and by classes, from 1854 to 1872, inclusive. Cannot. 



34. If you know what araoaut of duties is annually paid in Canada on 

 fish and fish-oil imported from the United States, which are to IMJ made 

 free under the provisions of the said Treaty, please state them annually, 

 and by classes, from 1854 to 1872, inclusive. See U States Statistics 



35. The object of these inquiries is to ascertain whether the rights in 

 respect of fishing, aud fishermen, and fish, which were granted to Great 

 Britain by the Treaty of Washington, are or are not a just equivalent 

 for the rights in those respects which were granted by said Treaty to 

 the United States. If you know anything bearing upon this subject 

 which you have not already stated in reply to previous questions, please 

 state it as fully as if you had been specially inquired of in re~s|e<-t of it. 

 The markets of the United States are the foundation of all the profits 

 of the Mackerel fisheries to the Canadians Without them this 



is value less: The Fish caught by our vessels,on the Oeean Hanks are 



generally very large, These fish are larger th.m the shore 



on the Canadian coast which are smaller and better fitted for the Wu 



Indies and Mediteranean trade, The Georges Codtish aJwajri 



larger price than any other consequently the shore fisheries fi 



are of little value If we are to be excluded from tbo innu 



Eivers in taking Mackerel the Mackerel fishery also w 



FREDERIC G. WONSON, of Jonx F, Woxsox & Co 



STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS ) gg 



COUNTY OF ESSEX j 



GLOUOBSrn June 2Ut 



Subscribed and sworn to, by above named Frederic G. Won** 



Before me 



(Seal \ DAVID W. LOW 



(beaL) Hotary 



