AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 3303 



No. 235. 



GLOUCESTER, Sept. 17, 1877. 



I, Russell D. Terry, born in Nova Scotia, master of the American 

 schooner Addie R. Terry, do on oath depose and say that I have just 

 returned from a trip to the coast of Maine for mackerel, having been 

 absent four weeks. 



I landed 20 bbls. No. 1 Mackerel, 



.. .. 130 << 2 " 



<i 62 " " 3 " 



worth and sold for 2,376 dollars. The average catch during the time 

 I was there was 100 bbls % to each vessel. 



I have been in the Gulf of St. Lawrence 17 seasons. My best stock 

 there for a full season was 8000 dollars. My poorest stock for a full 

 season was 500 dollars. 



I caught the most of my mackerel around the Magdalens and some 

 at P. E. Island. I think including the years previous to 1870 that one 

 fifth of the mackerel I took were taken within the three mile limit 

 including the Magdalen Islands. 



I consider that to be a fair estimate for the other American vessels 

 that were in company with me. 



CAPT. EUSSELL D. TERRY. 



ESSEX, s. s., 



GLOUCESTER, Sept. ] 7, 1877. 



Personally appeared the above named Russell D. Terry who sub- 

 scribed and made oath that the above statement is true, before me. 



ADDISON CARTER, 

 Justice of the Peace and tfpee. Dep. Collector of Customs for 



DISTRICT OF GLOUCESTER. 

 No. 236. 



I, William Herrick, of Swan's Island, Me., on oath, depose and say, 

 that I am master of Schooner Gyanne, of Salem, Mass. That I have 

 just arrived from the Gulf of St. Lawrence, from a mackerel voyage. 

 The said schooner went through the Strait of Canso the llth day of 

 July, 1877. Between Cape George and Port Hood, we caught our first 

 fish, 25 wash barrels, from 8 to 10 miles from shore. On the North side of 

 East Point, of Prince Edward Island, we took 200 wash barrels, caught 

 in four schools, the one nearest the land was over 3 miles off, the others, 

 6 or more miles off. This was the 17th or 18th of July. Two days after- 

 wards, at same place, took 90 wash barrels. 60 of them from one school, 

 over 4 miles from laud, and 30 in another school within 3 miles from the 

 land or shore. Took 15 wash barrels off Kildare, within three miles 

 from shore, (about two and-a-half miles). The balance of my trip, I 

 picked up on the hook, scattering from 4 to 10 miles from shore, cruis- 

 ing in Bay of Chaleur, down along the Island, and to Port Hood. Found 

 rib mackerel in Bay Chaleur, and very few anywhere. Spoke 25 sail of 

 vessels in my cruise, who all reported mackerel very scarce. Finding 

 nothing to stop for, and no prospect ahead of finding mackerel, I left 

 for home, and arrived at Gloucester, Aug. 30th, 1877, with 320 sea bar- 

 rels, and packed out about 300. 



