AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 3107 



No. of Trips to Bay Si-, Lawrence 1S7 1ST1 1S72 1S7;1 1*" 1*7.*. IH7 



none none none j ,, | U , Mollt , ,, om , 



No. of Barrels of Mackerel from Bay St. Lawrence. 



No. of Barrels of Mackerel caught within ;j miles of shore, not'ii 

 ing Magdalene Islands ....................... aU C!lll , lt off s , . 



Average value of Vessels each ........................ 



Average value of outfits, Salt, Bait, &c ..... I .....[..['.. 



Average value of Insurance ..... 10 per cent on veiteeY& outtttH veariy 



Average value of Captains' and Crews' time, vi/., wage* JUT mo. .". .$;ti 



Average value of Commissions, &c ......... L'lO to earh Captain yearly 



Average value of Wharves, Fish-houses, &c., for curing and iMii-kiiij; 

 including expenses of Clerks, Proprietors and labor on shorr. 



Number of Vessels lost 



Value of Vessels lost, including outfits 



Value of Fish lost 



Number of Lives lost 



Total value of Fish Taken, before curing, splitting, salting, &c., per ctrt. 



HO wtitis 



Total value of Macke:eKaken, before curing, splitting, sal ting,&i\,pcrbbl. 



2.00 



Total value of Fish taken within three miles of British shores.... none 



Total value of Mackerel do ............. . . . .................. none 



Average market value of American Shore Mackerelo "... " *'"* 



Average Market value of Bay Mackerel ............ 11 7 



Average earnings of the operative fishermen per year .............. '240 



Average amount paid iu 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 

 Locations frequented by American vessels for Mackerel 

 Actual value of Fish in the water, before taking 

 Actual value of Mackerel in the water before taken 

 Facts as to changes in location and mode of conducting American 

 fisheries 



When I Started in the fishing business Some thirty years Since 

 fish were caught on hand line & Mackerel on the jig- 

 ing to the bay of St Lawrence my vessels uiado some fares 

 dividend to to the owners I kept sending to the Buy & 

 losses I last Sent one vessel in 1873 and lost. The quant 

 the quality was poor & unsaleable of Bay fish Seines no 

 mackerel & Trawls for fish and I consider the right t 

 fers no benefit at all on American fishermen & 

 sending to the Bay JOHN STAPLKS 



Sworn and subscribed to before me, th 



Justice o/'/A<- 1'Moe 



STATE OF MA INK. 

 HANCOCK, ss. 



I, Hutson B. Saunders, Clerk of the Supreme J 

 County, certify that Thomas Warren Lsquire is and 



