AWARD OP THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 3151 



Facts as to changes in location and mode of conducting American finh- 



eries 



On account of the uncertainty of the Bay ashing, most of the New. 

 buryport Vessels gave up that fishing about twelve years ago, and en-- 

 gaged in the coast fishing, using Seines instead of hook and linen, doing 

 a fair business, while those who continued the Bay Mackerelling, have 

 made a losing business, and will mostly give up, aud enter the Shorn 

 fishing 



CHAS. O. CUUKIER 



Sworn and subscribed to before uie, this twenty-first day of May 

 1877 



(Seal.) E. F. BAKTLETT 



Sotary 



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

 Wharf Co have been engaged in the fishing business for the past Thirty 

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

 called, has been in ett'ect, our vessels have been employed as follows: 



No. of Vessels employed Seventeen 



No. of Trips made Sixty-Eight 



No. of Trips to Bay St. Lawrence Six since 1-S71 



No. of Barrels of Mackerel from Bay St. Lawrence 



Twelve hundred bbU 



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

 ing Magdalene Islands None 



Average value of Vessels each Five Thousand dollars 



Average value of Outfits, Salt, Bait, &c One thousand dollars 



Average value of Insurance Four thousand dollars 



Average value of Captains' and Crews 7 time, viz., wages per mo 



Thirty dollars 



Average value of Commissions, &c Four % to Caps of Vessel 



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

 including expenses of Clerks, Proprietors and labor on shore 



Twenty five thousand dolls. 



Number of Vessels lost * )n * 



Value of vessels lost, including outfits Five thousand dollars 



Value of Fish lost - N / )ll * 



Number of lives Lost None 



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



One dollar 

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



bljl Two dollar* 



Total value of Fish taken within three miles of British shores. 



Total value of Mackerel do 



Average market value of American Shore Mackerel . 



Average market value of Bay Mackerel Eight dollar?* pr 



Average earnings of the operative fishermen per year 



Two hundred twenty five dollar* 



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



Fifty dollars 



Amount paid to British fishermen for herring.. 



Amount paid to British fishermen as wages . ; 



Amount paid in British ports for repairs One hundred 



