AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 3195 



Average value of Vessels each . . fc.ViOO 



Average value of Outfits, Salt, Bait, &c '.'.... 



Average value of Insurance . .'.9.0 per'cent 



Average value of Captains' and Crews' time, viz., wages i>er iuo 



[$50. per mo 



Average value of Commissions, &c $200.00 



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



including expenses of Clerks, Proprietors and labor on shore. .$25.000 

 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 50 cents per 100 ll.s 



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



per bbl 1.50 per bbl. 



Total value of Fish taken within three miles of British shores. . nothing 



Total value of Mackerel do 



Average market value of American Shore Mackerel 18. 12. 8. 



Average market value of Bay Mackerel 12. 8. 5. |>er bbl 



Average earnings of the operative fishermen per year 1200.00 



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

 Amount paid to British fishermen for herring 



Amount paid to British fishermen as wages $500. per annum. 



Amount paid in British ports for repairs $50 



Locations frequented by American vessels for Fish Western Bank* 



Locations frequented by American vessels for Mackerel 



Cape May to East port. 



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 



I sent one vessel to Bay St. Lawrence in 1874 and she lost $54K) on 

 the trip 



Previous to 1870 we fitted a large fleet for the Bay but could not 

 make it pay, and consider that fishing entirely worthless. The flub 

 which our vessels bring are caught on Banks many miles from the ju- 

 risdiction of any government 



WM T MADDOCKS. 



STATE OF MAINE 

 LINCOLN s.s. 



Sworn and subscribed to before me, this Twenty-Third day of May 

 1877 



(Seal.) G. B. KENNISTON 



Sotary l'*bltc. 



No. 124. 



This is to certify, That the undersigned, Fryman Orne have been 

 engaged in the fishing business for the past Fifty years, at ! 

 Maine and that since the Washington Treaty, so called, h 

 effect, our vessels have been employed as follows: 



Six- 

 No, of Vessels employed 



No.' of Trips to^ay s't" LawrenceV.V.V.Vin 1874 got 100 bbl* 

 No. of Barrels of Mackerel from Bay St. Lawrence.. 1 



