3132 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION, 



Average value of Insurance - 300 each vessel yearly 



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



Average value of Commissions, &c 200 each vessel 



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

 including expenses of Clerks, Proprietors and labor on shore. $11, 000 



Number of vessels lost * Three 



Value of Vessels lost, including outfits $21, 000 



Value of Fish lost $4, 000 



Number of Lives lost Twenty six 



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



$1,00 

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



per bbl $2,00 



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



Total value of Mackerel do None 



Average market value of American shore mackerel 



No 1 $16 No 2, $12, No. 3, $8 

 Average market value Bay Mackerel 



I sold for No 1 $12, No 2, $8 No 3 $6, 



Average earnings of the operative fishermen per year . . $300 per year 

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



$2,310 Yearly 



Amount paid to British fishermen for herring None 



Amount paid to British fishermen as wages None 



Amount paid in British ports for repairs $300 



Locations frequented by American vessels for Fish 



Grand Banks, Western, Georges, La Have 

 Locations frequented by American vessels for Mackerel 



Long Island Sound to Bay St Lawrence along shore 



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 



The Fisheries and the mode of taking has changed much in ten years, 

 formerly the shore fisheries were used when hand lines and hooks were 

 used now fish are taken on the Banks with trawls and Mackerel with 

 seines, Our vessels are the best that can be built and go everywhere 

 on the Ocean Banks for fish the fish are met and taken on the Banks 

 nearest the Gulfstream as they come on the Banks to spawn, the Bay 

 of St Lawrence is entirely unprofitable to American fishermen owing 

 to the great expense of running the vessels and the poor quality and 

 quantity of fish & Mackerel there. 



LEONARD WALEN 



Sworn and subscribed to before me, this thirty first day of May 1877 

 (Seal.) DAVID W LOW 



Notary Public 

 No. 67. 



This is to certify, That the undersigned, composing the firm of Eowe 

 Jordan have been engaged in the fishing business for the past nine 

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

 has been in effect, our vessels have been employed as follows : 



No. of Vessels employed ten 



No. of Trips made eight each year by each vessel 



No. of Trips to Bay St Lawrence twenty one (21) 



No. of Barrels of Mackerel from Bay of St. Lawrence -.., 5462 



