3191 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Average value of vessels each 45,00 



Average value of Outfits, Salt, Bait, &c 1000 Bay trips 600 Shore Trips 



Average value of Insurance 



Average value of Captains' and Crews' time, viz., wages per mo $30 



Average value of Commissions, &c , $350 



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

 including expenses of Clerks, Proprietors and labor on shore 



20.00 



Number of Vessels lost 

 Value of Vessels lost, including outfits 

 Value of Fish lost 

 Number of Lives lost 

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



cwt 60 cts 



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



bbl. 



Total value of Fish taken within three miles of British shores 

 Total value of Mackerel do. 



Average market value of American Shore Mackerel 16. 12. 8 



Average market value of Bay Mackerel 10. 7. 5 



Average earnings of the operative fishermen per year .. 200 



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



Amount paid to British fishermen for herring 



Amount paid to British fishermen as wages 



Amount paid in British ports for repairs 



Locations frequented by American vessels for Fish 



Locations frequented by American vessels for Mackerel 



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 



Senes are Moslley yousd for Shore fishing for Mackerling on the Cost 

 of New England We Have No Seains in youse in inglish Watters the 

 fishing for Mackerliug in Bay Stlorece & Shelore Bay We Have 

 Abandend as a Lusing Buesnes 



M M CHASE 

 EMERY GUSHING 

 STATE OF MAINE, ) 

 CUMBERLAND, ss J* 



Sworn and subscribed to before me, this 21st day of May 1877. 



LEWIS B. SMITH 



Notary Public. 

 No. 123. 



This is to certify, That the undersigned, William Maddocks have 

 been engaged in the fishing business for the past Sixty-Two years, at 

 Southport. Me, and that since the Washington Treaty, so called, has 

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



No. of Vessels employed Ten (10) 



No. of Trips made Three 



1874 



No. of Trips to Bay St. Lawrence 1 only in five years. 



No. of Barrels of Mackerel from Bay St. Lawrence none. 



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

 ing Magdalene Islands . . None 



