AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 313J 



No. of Barrels of Mackerel caught within :\ miles of .shore, not inrlud 

 iug Magdalene Islands ............................... no|ii , 



Average value of A'essels each 



fifty five hundred dollar* at present time 

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



one thousand " 

 Average value of Insurance 



forty-eight hundred " 

 Average value of Captains' and Cresvs' time, vix., wages JMT mo. 



Average value of Commissions, &c ............. to Capt. *:;.*>< each, 



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



including expenses of Clerks, Proprietors and labor on shore | Hi. *ni 

 Number of Vessels lost ............ ............ six during live yearn 



Value of Vessels lost, including outfits ....................... 4W2X 



Value of Fish lost ........................................... 7(NN) 



Number of Lives lost .............................. twenty live (IJ5) 



Total value of Fish taken, before curing, splitting, sailing. &c", per rwt. 



50c 7800000 Ibs 839.000 

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



bbl. $1A 21000 bbls $31.500 



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

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



Average market value of American Shore Mackerel . . . thirteen dollar* 

 Average market value of Bay Mackerel ................. ten dollar* 



Average earnings of the operative fishermen per year ........... f'JT.'i 



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



$500 a year for each venae! 

 Amount paid to British fishermen for herring 

 Amount paid to British fishermen as wages 

 Amount paid in British ports for repairs .................. $1500 



Locations frequented by American vessels for Fish 



Grand Georges Western & La have Hanks 

 Locations frequented by American vessels for Mackerel 



. Coast of Maine & Mass Long Island & Bay St Lawrence 

 Actual value of Fish in the water, before taking .......... nothing 



Actual value of Mackerel in the water, before taken ........ 



Facts as to changes in location and mode of conducting Amer- 



ican fisheries 



During the last four years the facilities for catching mackerl haven 

 creased so that it does 'not pay to go for them from our own shore* a* 

 they can be taken in great abundance here & beside the cbanc 

 getting them in Bay of St Lawrence & adjacent waters 

 less, or at all events the chances for getting either Mackerel < 

 is so very uncertain that it is abandoned almost altogel 

 that pursued it did so at a heavy pecuniary 



bef ie - JOSKI'II ROWK. 



WILLIAM II. JOHD AN. 



Sworn and subscribed to before me, this :Ust day of May is; 



/Qual \ 1 'A * I 1 



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No. (5S. 



o rertifv That the undersigned, compiling the firm of Harvey 

 r have'beenen g a S ,,l in ,U,tt 8 bing bo*u,,for ,he , 



