3176 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Average market value of Bay Mackerel None Caught 



Average earnings of the operative fishermen per year $180 



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

 plies none 



Amount paid to British fishermen for herring nothing 



Amount paid to British fishermen as wages none 



Amount paid in British ports for repairs nothing 



Locations frequented by American vessels for Fish 



From Cape Charles to Mt Desert 

 Locations frequented by American ves- 

 sels for Mackerel " " ' " " " 



Actual value of Fish in the water, before taking nothing 



Actual value of Mackerel in the water, before taken " 



Facts as to change in location and mode of conducting American fish- 

 eries 



have Sent no vessels To Fish In British Waters for the Last fifteen 

 Years our Fishing since 1862 has wholly been done In American Waters 

 as no American crews Would go To Fish In Bayst Laurance or any 

 British Waters those that have occasionally Tried made a failur and 

 serious losses to owner & outfitters & crews consequently our Fishing 

 is wholly carried on In American Waters. 



VALENTINE. DOANE 



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

 (Seal.) SAMUEL. S. BAKER 



Notary Public 

 No. 107. 



This is to certify, That the undersigned, composing the firm of T. B. 

 Baker have been engaged in the fishing business for the past Eleven 

 years, at Harwich Port and that since the Washington Treaty, so called, 

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



No. of Vessels employed , Five 



No. of Trips made Six 



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 in- 

 cluding Magdalene Islands None 



Averave value of vessels each ... Six Thousand Dollars 



Average value of Outfits, Salt, Bait, &c Twenty five Hundred " 



Average value of Insurance Two do fifty " 



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



Thirty dollars per mo 



Average value of Commissions, c, . , .Two Hundred Twenty five dollars 

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

 including expenses of Clerks, Proprietors and labor on shore 



Ten thousand dollars 



Number of Vessels lost ....None 



Value of Vessels lost, including outfits none 



Value of Fish lost do 



Number of Lives lost Two 



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

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



bl >l Three dollars 



Total value of Fish taken within three miles of British shores 



Total value of Mackerel do. . noe 



