3188 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



No. of Vessels employed Six 



No. of Trips made Three, to, four 



No. of Trips to Bay St. Lawrence One and occasionly two 



No. of Barrels of Mackerel from Bay St. Lawrence 



One, to three hundred per Vessels 

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



Magdalene Islands. Not more than one in ten 



Average value of Vessels each four thousand dollars 



Average value of Outfits, Salt, Bait, &c , . . . Seven hundred dollars 



Average value of Insurance 



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



Capt 60$ Crew 30$ 

 Average value of Commissions, &c. 

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



including expenses of Clerks, Proprietors and labor on shore 

 Nothing as we do not cure our fish, but pay one twelveth for curing dry 



fish and about 1$ per Brl for Mackerel 



Number of Vessels lost two 



Value of Vessels lost, including outfits Nine thousand dollars 



Value of Fish lost two thousand dollars 



Number of Lives lost Eleven 



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

 do not consider fish of any, or at least of very little value when taken 



from the water 

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



bbl the same as above 



Total value of Fish taken within three miles of British shores none 



Total value of Mackerel do do not consider fish swimming of any value 



Average market value of American Shore Mackerel 



12 to 15$ No 17 to 8 for No 2 and 5 to 6$ No 3 

 Average market value of Bay Mackerel 



No 110$ No 2 7$ No 3 5$ 

 Average earnings of the operative fishermen per year 



two hundred dollars 



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



fifty dollars per vessel per annum 



Amount paid to British fishermen for herring nothing, 



Amount paid to British fishermen as wages 



Twenty five hundred dollars per year 

 Amount paid in British ports for repairs 

 Locations frequented by American vessels for Fish 



Western Bank and Quero Bank 

 Locations frequented by American vessels for Mackerel 



Gulf of St Lawrence 



Actual value of Fish in the water, before taking none 



Actual value of Mackerel in the water, before taken none 



Facts as to changes in location and mode of conducting American 



fisheries 



Within the last few years the mode of taken Mackerel has change en- 

 tirely, from taken them by the Hook to seining, or netting, and for our 

 shore fishing it has become useless to send a vessel without a sein, 

 while in the Gulf of St Lawrence, our fisherman have been unable to use 

 them to any profit, owing to the rocky Nature of the bottom, and the 

 large quantities of small Herring, that fill the meshes of the seine, the 

 Mackerel are inferior to those taken on our own Shore, for these causes, 

 we have been gradully withdrawing from the Gulf of St Lawrence 



