AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



No. of Vessels employed 

 No. of Trips made 



No. of Trips to Bay St. Lawrence .......... " 



No. of Barrels of Mackerel from Bay St. Law- 1874 **'* 



rence..... ....... ................. 1200800 1200 600 200 



N ot P^s / Ma ckerel caught within 3mileMof nhore, not iarlu.lin k - 

 Magdalene Islands ...... Did not fish in St. Le. but Mwlaline Inland* 



Average value of Vessels each ..................... JI.VKNI nanh 



Average value of Outfits, Salt, Bait, &c .......... '.900014* 



Average value of Insurance .............................. tier cent 



Average value of Captains' and Crews' time, viz., wags* per BO 



4 *< .00 n*r no. 



Average value of Commissions, &c. . . ......................... t2o".OO 



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



eluding expenses of Clerks, Proprietors and labor on shore ..... 130,000 



Number of Vessels lost ..................................... Three. 



Value of Vessels lost, including outfits .................... . . A 2 ".<"> 



Value of Fish lost 



Number of Lives lost 



Total value of Fish taken, before curing, splitting, salting, &o. |*r cirt 



7.1 cenu 

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



bbl ........................................................ rjuo 



Total value of Fish taken within three miles of British shore* . . . Nothing 

 Total value of Mackerel do ................................ 



Average market value of American Shore Mackerel.. 1<>. 12 s per bbl. 

 Average market value of Bay Mackerel ........... . ......... 11. 6. 4 



Average earnings of the operative fishermen per year ............ f2.'iO 



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



$91000 per annum 

 Amount paid to British fishermen for herring ...... 12.000 per annum 



Amount paid to British fishermen as wages ...... 



Amount paid in British ports for repairs ............. 1500 



Locations frequented by American vessels for Fish ................. 



Grand & Western Braddelle & Orphan Dank* 

 Locations frequented by American vessels for Mackerel 



Cape May to St. Lawrence. 

 Actual value of Fish in the water, before taking .......... 



Actual value of Mackerel in the water, before taken ---- 



Facts as to changes in location and mode of conducting American 

 eries 



Fishing business in my case has been changed 

 to trawling seining Can send no vessels to Buy of St. Laurer 

 oilybusiness had so depreciated Our vessels now 

 without national jurisdiction. My Mackerel have teen caiif 

 our own shores for the bay fishing has been an entn 

 ship a crew of good fishermen in this place t he ba^ rriRCK 



STATE OF MAINE 



LINCOLN. 



Sworn and subscribed to before me, this Twenty.ee< 



18 JJ fial v G. B. KEXMSTUX 



Xotary 



