AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 

 No. 100. 



This is to certify, That the undersigned, composing the firm of A bra- 

 bain H. Tower, have' been engaged in the fishing businesH for the punt 

 Fifty years, at Cohasset, Mass, and that since the Washington Tiv.it v, 

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



No. of Vessels employed t pj ve 



No. of Trips made Six yearly', 'in* nil 34) 



No. of Trips to Bay St. Lawrence ' None 



No. of Barrels of Mackerel from Bay St. Lawrence None 



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



Magdalene Islands 



Average value of Vessels each , Four thousand dollar*. 



Average value of Outfits, Salt, Bait, &c. . Twenty five hundred dollar*. 



Average value of Insurance Two hundred & fifty dollars per Vefwcl. 



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



Thirty dollars 



Average value of Commissions, &c Two hundred dollars per Veiwel. 



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



including expenses of Clerks, Proprietors and labor on shore 



Five thousand dollars. 



Number of Vessels lost None 



Value of Vessels lost, including outfits 



Value of Fish lost 



Number of Lives lost None. 



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

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



bbl two dollars 



Total value of Fish taken within three miles of British shores 



Nothing, none taken 



Total value of Mackeiel do 



Average market value of American Shore Mackerel 



Eight dollars per Barrel 

 Average market value of Bay Mackerel 

 Average earnings of the operative fishermen per year 



One hundred & fifty dollars. 



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

 plies Nothing 



Amount paid to British fishermen for herring 



Amount paid to British fishermen as wages 



Amount paid in British ports for repairs. . 

 Locations frequented by American vessels for Fish 

 Locations frequented by American vessel for Mackerel 



Capes Delaware to Mount Desert. 

 Actual value of fish in the water, before taking 



Actual value of Mackerel in the water, before taken 



Facts as to changes in location and mode of conducting Amer 



eries 



For the last seven or Eight years our Mackerel 

 limited to the catch off the American Coast, owing to t 

 Lawrence fishery being so very uncertain, as to oiler noei* 

 to go there My vessels have not been there during that 



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Sworn and subscribed to before me, this Eighth day of May 



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