3178 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION 



Average market value of American Shore Mackerel 



Eight dollars per Bbl. 



Average market value of Bay Mackerel None received 



Average earnings of the operative fishermen per year 



One hundred & fifty dolls per season 

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



plies Five Hundred dollars 



Amount paid to British fishermen for herring Nothing 



Amount paid to British fishermen as wages 



Twenty five Hundred dollars annually 



Amount paid in British ports for repairs , ..Two thousand dolls. 



Locations frequented by American vessels for Fish 



Grand & Western Banks 

 Locations frequented by American vessels for Mackerel . .Not acquainted 



Actual value of Fish in the water, before taking Nothing 



Actual value of Mackerel in the water, before taken Nothing 



Facts as to changes in location and mode of conducting American 

 fisheries. 



But very little change in location on American Shores. A grand 

 change made in mode of taking Mackerel, being: from hook & line, to. 

 purse seining, largely increasing expense The scarcity and poor quality 

 of Mackerel in British waters, has induced parties fishing there, to 

 transfer their fleet to our own shore fishing. And it is not uncommon 

 to see English vessels on this coast engaged in fishing with modern 

 appliances, being found more profitable than their own Coast fishing 

 and we have sold several cargo's of cured fish the past two years to go 

 to Halifax N. S. 



V. DOANE JR & CO. 



Sworn and subscribed to before me, this 31 day of May 1877. 

 (Seal.) A. F. HOWARD 



Notary Public. 

 No. 109. 



This is to certifjr, That the undersigned, composing the firm of C. 

 Morris Tredick have been engaged in the fishing business for the past 

 five years, at Portsmouth N H and that since the Washington Treaty, 

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



No. of Vessels employed Fifteen 



No. of Trips made Sixty 



1875 1876 



No. of Trips to Bay St. Lawrence 1 1 



No. of Barrels of Mackerel from Bay St. Lawrence, .none, but Cod fish 

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

 ing Magdalene Islands = none 



Average value of Vessels each Three thousand dollars 



Average value of Outfits, Salt, Bait, &c Twelve hundred dollars 



Average value of Insurance 9% 



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



Thirty five dollars 



Average value of Commissions, &c one hundred and fifty dollars 



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

 including expenses of Clerks, Proprietors and labor on shore 



Twenty thousand dollars 



Number of Vessels lost 2 



Value of Vessels lost, including outfits .Seven thousand dolla rs 



Value of Fish lost 



