3186 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Average value of Commissions, &c One hundred dollars each yearly 



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

 including expenses of Clerks, Proprietors and labor on shore, 



Thirty thousand 



Number of Vessels lost One 



Value of Vessels lost including outfits , Five Thousand 



Value of Fish lost None 



Number of Lives lost - One 



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



c\vt One dollar 



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 none 



Total value of Mackerel do none 



Average market value of American Shore Mackerel 16$ 12 8 



Average market value of Bay Mackerel ... 12 8 6 



Average earnings of the operative fishermen per year 250 



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

 plies None 



Amount paid to British fishermen for herring One Thousand dollars 



Amount paid to British fishermen as wages Unknown 



Amount paid to British ports for repairs Nothing 



Locations frequented by American vessels for Fish 



Western Bank Grand Georges 

 Locations frequented by American vessels for Mackerel 



American Shore Bay St Lawrence 



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 



My Vessels are Mostly Employed in Mackerel Fisheries I send no 

 Vessel in English Waters for the reason that the fish are so inferior to 

 American Mackerel that Vessels cannot pay their outfit Bills to catch 

 them My Vessels are Mostly engaged in seineing and netting Mack- 

 erel in American Waters I cannot find any one who is willing to fit a 

 Mackerel Catcher for Bay of St Lawrence Vessels that have been their 

 have fell in debt largely I paid an assessment of 232$ on ^ of a Sch* 

 this Year on two Years fishing in English Waters 1874 and 1875 



CHAS A DYEE 

 STATE OF MAINE ) 

 CUMBERLAND Co. s. s. J 



Sworn and subscribed to before me, this 25th day of May 1877 

 (Seal.) LEWIS B. SMITH 



Notary Public. 

 No. 110. 



This is to certify, That the undersigned W. S. Jordan & Co. have 

 been engaged in the fishing business, for the past thirty three years,. 

 at Portland Me, and that since the Washington Treaty, so called, has 

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



No. of Vessels employed Twelve, averaging eight men each 



No. of Trips made ' Four trips each yearly 



No. of Trips to Bay St. Lawrence 



Average two each year, one only in 187G 



* This Sch was in the employ of C & H Trefethen of Portland 



