AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMI88IOX. 8205 



Average market value of American Shore Mackerel ........ 1H _ |j. a. 



Average market value of Bay Mackerel ........... 11.8. fl prr hl| 



Average earnings of the operative fishermen JHT year. . ..... t'flZ, - 



Average amount paid in British ports for bait, icr, and vartoii* utip 



plies ............. ........................ $yoo JUT annum - 



Amount paid to British fishermen for herring ...... $:ioo 



Amount paid to British fishermen as wages ....... $l,ooo. 



Amount paid iu British ports for repairs 

 Locations frequented by American vessels for Fish 



drain! & Western Hank* 

 Locations frequented by American vessels for Mackerel 



Cape May to Hay Ht. I*tr. 

 Actual value of fish in the water, before taking ..... Lea* limn nothtug 



Actual value of Mackerel iu the water, before taken . . 



Facts as to changes iu location and mode of conducting American flub- 



cries 



We have now dissolved partner ship and the hiiMineHM cannot be 

 profitably conducted. Fishing was profitable only during the r \ctle 

 ment of the war Never caught any fish within the jurisdiction of any 

 government except American 



Fishing is conducted now by trowling & with Seine*. 



SIMON McDOUOALL 

 JAMES L HACK 



STATE OF MAINE 



LINCOLN s.s. 



Sworn and subscribed to before me, this twenty second day of May 

 1877 



(Sea n G. B. KENNtSTOX. 



(& ' Xotary 



In the Bay of St. Lawrence iu the years 1875 & 1870 the buritiMi of 

 fishing was so unprofitable that we send none this year. 

 It is impossible to get good fishermen to ship for such "!>'?* 



JAMKS I. 1C AC/ 1* 



STATE OF MAINE 

 LINCOLN s. s. 



Personally appeared James L. Kace on this Twenty 

 May A. D. 1877. and made oath to the truth of the 

 him subscribed- KKNNISTON 



( Sea1 -) 



No. 133. 

 .This is to certify, That the undersigned ^fi"fc 



follows: Ki>|jr 



Ke. of Vessels employed ............ '^ H j x t ri|* rarb- 



No. of Trips made ............ jj.i.y ' ls7 -j 1S7I j s ; 



., .1 o o 

 No. of Trips to Bay St. Lawren- , gT2 IH73 



'UHI 100 



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



