AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 31 15 



No. of Barrels of Mackerel from Bay St. Lawrence 



. ,,.. Forty nix hundred (JGfiU) 



No. of Barrels of Mackerel caught within 3 miles of shore, not i 

 Magdalene Islands 



Not more than one fourth (\) part of the Hay St Lawrence 

 Average value of Vessels each ---- Forty five II a ml red (*|.*<M)) dollar* 



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



$4300, pr year or $700, Trip for each Vessel (*1L'0(), for each liav Trip). 



Average value of Insurance 



Four and one half pr cent pr year for Six Month* 

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



Capt *70 & Crew ^:, each 

 Average value of Commissions, &c ...... $.'500, for each vexm-l pr year 



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

 including expenses of Clerks, Proprietors and labor on whore 



Sixteen thousand (*1<>,(MKMM)) dollar** pr Year 

 Number of Vessels lost ..................................... Kour 1 1) 



Value of Vessels lost, including outfits 



Seventeen thousand (*17MMi) dollar* 

 Value of Fish lost ............... Thirty five hundred ($3500) dollar* 



Number of Lives lost ............................... Thirty three (.'13) 



Total value of Fish taken, before curing, splitting, Halting. iVc. per cwt 

 Total value of Mackerel takeu, before curing, splitting, salting, \c., er 



bbl. But no fish and very few iiiackervll 

 Total value of Fish taken within three miles of British shores 



Impossible to make correct estimate 

 Total value of Mackerel do .......... 



Average market value of American Shore Mackerel 



Eleven dollars pr Barrel 

 Average market value of Bay Mackerel ---- Eight y,; 1 "',, dollars pr Barrel 



Average earnings of the operative fishermen per year 



Two hundred & seventy five dollar* 



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



Three Thousand dollars pr. Year 

 Amount paid to British fishermen for herring 



Two thousand dollars pr. Year 

 Amount paid to British fishermen as wages ..... Two thousand dollar* 



Amount paid in British ports for repairs: ..Twenty six hundred dollar* 

 Locations frequented by American vessels for Fish 

 Georges, Sable Island, and Grand Banks, & Gulf and Bay h 

 Locations frequented by American vessels tor Mackerel 



Atlantic Coast from Cape Hatteras to Ba*t|H> 

 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 conduct! 

 eries 



We employed a part of our Hoot in the, Hay * 

 during the years of 1871-2-3, and found it to be a loseuijj 

 since 1873 we have employed our vessels in the Grand I 

 and American Shore fisheries with the except ion ol one 

 St Lawrence, in 1874, which did not pay one lial 

 voyage : and we consider the Hay St. Luwrence tisher.e 

 less to us, and have so considered them for the past fon 

 BENJ. MADDOCKS 



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