3154 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Average value of Vessels each Five Thousand dollars 



Average value of Outfits, Salt, Bait, &c. $3,000 to each vessel 



Average value of Insurance $248.00 each vessel 



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



$40) Forty Dollar 



Average value of Commissions, &c $50 Fifty " 



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



including expenses of Clerks, Proprietors and labor on 



shore $1.2.000 Twelve Thousand Dollars 



Number of vessels lost Two 



Value of Vessels lost, including outfits 



$14,000 Fourteen Thousand Dollars 



Value of Fish lost $12,000 Twelve Thousand Dollars 



No. of Lives lost Thirteen 



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



cwt 75 cts Seventy five cents 



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



per bbl. 



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 

 Average market value of Bay Mackerel 



Average earnings of the operative fishermen per year $200, 00 



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



Amount paid to British fishermen for herring . Nothing 



Amount paid to British fishermen as wages $600,00 Nearly 



Amount paid in British ports for repairs 

 Locations frequented by American vessels for Fish 



From Long Island to Newfoundland 

 Locations frequented by American vessels for Mackerel 



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 American fish- 

 eries 



For the last fifteen years we have sent two vessels only to the Bay of 

 St Lawerenc Cod Fishing and both voyages proved a failure, for the 

 past eight or ten years the fishing in the Bay St Lawerence has been of 

 no profit to us for neither Cod or Mackeral Fishing, and the year of 1876 

 was nearly a Total failure, the Mackerel Fishing is carried on now by 

 Seining and our vessels at Provincetown do better at fishing nearer 

 home, our cod Fishermen do not fish in British limits, and it does not 

 pay for our Mackerel Fishermen. 



H & S COOK & CO 



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

 (Seal.) THOS. HILLIAED 



Notary Public 

 No. 86. 



This is to certify, That the undersigned, composing the firm of F. M. 

 Freeman have been engaged in the fishing business for the past Five 

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

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



No. of Vessels employed Eight 



No. of Trips made Five 



No. of Trips to Bay St. Lawrence ten in five years cod fishing 



