3192 AWARD OF THE FISBERY COMMISSION. 



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 816. $ 12. $8 



Average market value of Bay Mackerel $11 $8 $6 



Average earnings of the operative fishermen per year $270 



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



^ plies One Hundred each vessel 



Amount paid to British fishermen for herring $6000 each year 



Amount paid to British fishermen as wages 2oO year 



Amount paid in British ports for repairs none 



Locations frequented by American vessels for Fish 



Bay Fundy & Cape May 

 Locations frequented by American vessels for Mackerel 



to Bay St Lawrence 



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 



I shall not send any more vessels in British waters fishing ; It has 

 been a failure with me. for the last four years the vessels have not paid 

 their expenses. The fish or mackerel caught ther last year by my ves- 

 sels are still on my hands ; I have been unable to sell them at any price 

 they being such poor Quality the dealers will not take them when they 

 can get our shore mackerel. 



E. H. CHASE 

 STATE OF MAINE ( 

 CUMBERLAND Co. ss ) 



Sworn and subscribed to before me, this 23rd day of May 1877. 

 (Seal.) LEWIS B. SMITH 



Notary Public. 

 No. 121. 



This is to certify, That the undersigned, composing the firm of C & 

 H Trefethen have been engaged in the fishing business for the past Six 

 years, at Portland Maine and that since the Washington Treaty, so called, 

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



No. of Vessels employed Twenty 



No. of Trips made One hundred pr year for all of the vessels 



No. of Trips to Bay St. Lawrence Nine since 1871 



No. of Barrels of Mackerel from Bay St. Lawrence 



Fourteen hundred seventy eight 

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



Magdalene Islands None 



Average value of Vessels each Three thousand dollars 



Average value of outfits, Salt, Bait, &c Eight hundred " 



Average value of Insurance Twenty two hundred dollars 



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



Thirty dollars 

 Average value of Commissions, &c. 



Three per cent on net stock to Capts of vessels 

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



including expenses of Clerks, Proprietors and labor on shore 



Twenty five thousand dollars 



Number of Vessels lost One 



Value of Vessels lost, including outfits Four thousand dollars 



Value of Fish lost 





