3106 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Average earnings of the operative fishermen per year $200. 



Average amount paid in British ports for bait, ice, and various supplies 



Amount paid to British fishermen for herring nothing 



Amount paid to British fishermen as wages 

 Amount paid in British ports for repairs 

 Locations frequented by American vessels for Fish 



Grand, Western La Have & Georges Banks 

 Locations frequented by American vessels for Mackerel 



Cape May to Gulf St. Lawrence 



Actual value of Fish in the water, before taking nothing 



Actual value of Mackerel in the water, before taken nothing 



Facts as to changes in location and mode of conducting American fish- 

 eries 



Had we not put seines on board our vessels, and sent them on our 

 shore, we would have been obliged to abandon the mackerel fishery en- 

 tirely, for mackerel were scarce and of poor quality in the Bay, and we 

 were obliged to pay exorbitant prices at the British ports, for salt, bait 

 and general supplies, so that it was impossible for our vessels to pay 

 their bills, It is now utterly impossible to ship a crew to go to the Bay 

 on skares, for they cannot make a living. Mackerel are plenty and of 

 good quality on our shore, and the risk and expence to take them is very 

 much less than from the Bay, We consider the Bay fisheries an absolute 

 failure, None of our vessels used the inshore fisheries of the Dominion, 

 as they could derive no advantage thereby. 



SETH WEBB - 

 C. H. S. WEBB 



Sworn and subscribed to before me, this eighth day of June 1877 



THOMAS WARREN 



Justice of the Peace 



STATE OF MAINE. 



HANCOCK, ss. 



I, Hutson B. Saunders, Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Courts, in said 

 County, certify that Thomas Warren Esquire is and was at the date 

 of this Certificate an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, 

 duly commissioned and qualified to act as such, and that the signature 

 to the paper annexed, purporting to be his, is genuine, and that he is 

 duly authorized and empowered, by the laws of said State, to take ac- 

 knowledgment of Deeds, Assignments, and Powers of Attorney, and to 

 administer oaths. 



In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed the 

 Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court, for said State, this eigthth day of 

 June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy- 

 seven 



(Seal.) HUTSON B SAUNDERS 



Cleric. 

 No. 45. 



This is to certify, That the undersigned, John Staples have been en- 

 gaged in. the fishing business, for the past thirty years, at Swans Island 

 Maine, and that since the Washington Treaty, so called, has been in 

 effect our vessels have been employed as follows: namely Since 1870 



No. of Vessels employed four (4) 13 men to each vessel 



No. of Trips made five trips yearly each year 



