3114 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Average value of Vessels each Five thousand Dollars 



Average value of Outfits, Salt, Bait, &c. 



$1000 per Bay trip $3000 yearly each vessel 



Average value of Insurance - . - $300 per year each vessel 



Average value of Captains' and Crews' time, viz., wages per mo .... $35 



Average value of Commissions, &c $200 each vessel yearly 



Average value of Wharves, Fish-houses, &c., for curing and packing, 



including expenses of Clerks, Proprietors and labor on shore. $10, 000 



Number of Vessels lost One 



Value of Vessels lost, including outfits $7, 000 



Value of Fish lost $1, 500 



2s timber of Lives lost Eleven 



Total value of Fish taken, before curing, splitting, salting, &c. per cwt. 



$1,50 

 Total value of Mackerel taken, before curing, splitting, salting, &c., per 



bbl ' . . $2,50 



Total value of Fish taken within three miles of British shores None 



Total value of Mackerel do $3,000 



A I f> O-l f> &Q 



Average market value of American Shore Mackerel -. ^ 



f T-> ir i i No 1 No 2 No 3 



Average market value of Bay Mackerel ^2 $3 $Q 



Average earnings of the operative fishermen per year , $300 



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



500 each vessel or $3000 yearly 



Amount paid to British fishermen for herring $400 yearly 



Amount paid to British fishermen as wages $5000 yearly 



Amount paid in British ports for repairs 1500 u 



Locations frequented by American vessels for Fish 



Georges Grand Western La Have Bks 

 Locations frequented by American vessels for Mackerel 



American Shores north of Cape May 



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 



For the last three years we have been obliged to send all our vessels 

 Bank Fishing putting into British ports for supplies &c The mackerel 

 fishery in the Bay of St Lawrence falling off so much in quantity and 

 quality as to make it impossible for American Vessels with their cost 

 and equipment to pay their expenses. 



CHAELES D PETTINGELL. 



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

 (Seal.) DAVID W. LOW 



Notary Public 

 No. 51. 



This is to certify, That the undersigned, composing the firm of B. Mad- 

 docks & Co have been engaged in the fishing business for the past nine 

 years, at Gloucester Mass and that since the Washington Treaty, so 

 called, lias been in effect, our vessels have been employed as follows : 



No. of Vessels employed Fifteen (15) 



No. of Trips made Three hundred & Sixty four (364) 



Iso. of Trips to Bay St. Lawrence Twenty one (21) 



