AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 3153 



Average market value of Bay Mackerel 



No 1. $12. No 2. $8. No 3. $6. (our average iu 1372. $10.20 

 Average earnings of the operative fishermen per year 



$225 at our place 



Average amount paid in British ports for bait, ice, and vurioun Mup- 

 plies 



$250 each Vessel including wages paid their (total for Vninrll 

 would be 2250,$ 



Amount paid to British fishermen for herring none 



Amount paid to British fishermen as wages 100,$ ier-year 



Amount paid in British ports for repairs 



thus far small repairs, but liable to large in cane of accident 

 Locations frequented by American vessels for Fish 



Grand, Western & Georges BaukM 

 Locations frequented by American vessels for Mackerel 



from Cape May to Eastport, and Georges I'., inks 



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



Actual value of Mackerel in the water, before taken Nothing 



Facts as to changes iu location and mode of conducting American lisa- 

 eries 



We have sent no Vessels into the Bay of St. Laurence for Mackerel 

 since 1873 and only two for Codfish, The facts are we do find the fikh- 

 ing business, (more especially for Mackerel in the Bay of St Lawrence) 

 does not pay, that is our experience and is the only reason that we have 

 allmost wholy discontinued sending our Vessels their, and than agaiu 

 Mackerel takeiug their are not as Valuable as those taken on our Coast, 

 the fishing grounds are far distant, bad weather sets in much earlier 

 their than on our Coast, makeing it more hazardous, also as most of the 

 Mackerel now are taken with Seines and we consider the Bay a very 

 difficult place for Seining. We consider the fishing grounds in Bay of 

 St. Laurence inside of three miles from Shore (especially for Mackerel) 

 practically useless to us, and would not fit a Vessel under any consider- 

 ation, looking to that locality for the success of their Voyage 



CENTRAL WHARF CO by A. NiCKERSON 



ATKINS NICKERSON ] 



JAMES A. SMALL V Central Wharf Co 



ABNER B. RICH 



NATHAN YOUNG \ 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this ninth day of June A. I). 1S77 

 (Seal.) B.F.HUTCHINSON 



Notary Pnblw 



No. 85. 



This is to certify, That the undersigned, composing the firm of II &. 

 S Cook & Co have been engaged iu the fishing busiuew 

 twenty five years, at Proviucetown Mass and that since the N\ a.sli 

 ton Treaty, so called, has been in effect, our vessels have IMH'II 

 as follows : 



No. of Vessels employed / 



No. of Trips made one trip yearly total high 



No. of Trips to Bay St. Lawrence 



One Trip in 1870 Cod Fishing (frailni 



No. of Barrels of Mackerel from Bay St. Lawrence ...... 



No. of Barrels of Mackerel caught within 3 miles of shore, n inela* 



ing Magdalene Islands 



198 F 



