3180 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Number of Vessels lost 



Value of Vessels lost, including outfits 



A'alue of Fish lost 



Number of Lives lost 



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



cwt 75 cts 



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



bbl $2.00 



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 .... 16. 12 8 



Average market value of Bay Mackerel 



Average earnings of the operative fishermen per year $200 



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

 plies none 



Amount paid to British fishermen for herring none 



Amount paid to British fishermen as wages 

 Amount paid in British ports for repairs 

 Locations frequented by American vessels for Fish 



Grand & Georges Bank 

 Locations frequented by American vessels for Mackerel 



Cape May to Mt Desert 



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 fish- 

 eries 



We have sent no fishermen to the Dominion Waters for the past five 

 years for the following reasons namely : the fish have been of poor 

 quality & scarce and in all that have fished there from this vicinity none 

 have paid their expenses Mackerel on the American shore are plenty 

 and of good quality but the expenses are so high in catching them that 

 we do not consider them worth anything in the water before taken 



JAMES FKYE 

 STATE OF MAINE 

 KNOX ss 



Sworn and subscribed to before me, this second day of June 1877 

 (Seal.) J. F. STETSON 



Notary Public 

 No. 111. 



This is to Certify, That the undersigned Geo. Tolmau have been en- 

 gaged in the fishing business, for the past twelve years, at Deer Isle, 

 Maine, and that since the Washington Treaty, so called, has been in 

 died, our vessels have been employed as follows : viz since 1866 



No. of Vessels employed.. ..66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 



1L> 13 12 10 8 4 4 4 5 5 5 



No. of Trips made 60 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 



"20 18 20 18 16 8 8 4 12 16 18 



No. of Trips to Bay St. Lawrence... 66 ^ <? 8 69 71 72 73 74 75 76 



16 17 15 13 9 8 6 3 1 



No. of Barrels of Mackerel from Bay St. Lawrence , . . . 28800 



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



the Magdalene Islands None 



Average value of Vessels each . $5000. 



