3144 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



in English waters ; even at the low price at which the English fish were 

 ottered. We buv and dispose of -$350,000. worth of fish yearly. 



A G PKOCTEB 



COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



ESSEX ss. GLOUCESTER July 28th 1877 



Then personally appeared the above named Addison G. Procter and 

 made oath that all the foregoing statements by him subscribed are true 

 to the best of his knowledge and belief. Before me 

 (Seal.) DAVID AV. LOW 



Notary Public 

 Xo. 77. 



I Aaron Smith Master of the schooner Cora E Smith I was born in 

 North Haven. Maine do depose & say That I started from Gloucester 

 on the 25th of April 1877 for a Mackerel voyage off Block Island was 

 absent one Mouth and took 200 Barrels Mackerel with seine, all No 3 

 and worth Six Dollars per Bbl On the 8th of June 1877 started on a 

 trip for shore Mackerel and took 160 Bbls at round Pond State of Maine 

 These Mackerel were taken within 10 rods of the shore Most of these 

 Mackerel were Xo 2 and brought 12 dollars per Bbl on an average. I 

 have been 20 years engaged in fishing for Mackerel have been eleven 

 seasons in the Bay of St Lawrence never done so well there as on our 

 own shores. I have assisted in taking over 3500 Barrels of Mackerel in 

 the Gulf of St Lawrence and of that amount not 200 Barrels were taken 

 within 3 miles of the shore and so far as I know the same proportion 

 will hold in the catch of other American Vessels. Ten years ago when 

 we depended on the Hook fishing the Gulf of St Lawrence Mackerel 

 fishery could be pursued to advantage but since the introduction of 

 seines it cannot be pursued profitably 



AAROX SMITH 



STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS \ 



COUNTY OF ESSEX } GLOUCESTER Aug. 13th 1877. 



Then personally appeared the above named Aaron Smith and made 

 oath that the above statement bv him subscribed is true. Before me 

 (Seal.) DAVID W. LOW 



Notary Public 



Also appeared Jerome B. Thomas one of the Crew of Schooner Cora 

 E. Smith who on oath, deposes and says that the above statement by 

 Aaron Smith Master is true, he also" deposes and says that he was 

 Master of Sch. David Brown Jr. in 1869 & 1870 and prosecuted the 

 Mackerel Fishery in the Bay of St. Lawrence that I did so poorly that 

 I left fishing as an occupation for several years and consider that Mack- 

 erel Fishing with Seines on American Shores more profitable than the 

 Bay fishing. My residence is Xorth Haven in State of Maine. 



JEROME B THOMAS 

 STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS \ 



COUNTY OF ESSEX j ss< GLOUCESTER Aug 13. 1877 



Then personally appeared the above named Jerome B. Thomas and 

 made oath that the above statement by him subscribed is true. Before 

 me 



(Seal.) DAVID W. LOW 



Notary Public 



