3304 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



That I chartered my vessel for $225 per mouth, of Charles E. Fabens, 

 of Salem, finding my own Seines and Gear. 



Charter of Vessel, 2 months 



Seines, (2), Boat's Value, $2,000, 2 months use 300 



Outfits of Provisions, Lines, &c 400 



16 hands $30 per Month, 2 Months , 960 



Captain's Wages, 2 Months 150 



Insurance of Seines and Seine Boats 30 



Salt 140 



$2, 430 



RECEIPTS. 



10 bbls. No. 1's $ 16, $160 



170 " No. 2's 10, 1,785 



120 " No. 3's 7j, 900 



$2,845 

 STOCK EXPENSE. 



25 bbls. Pogie bait, $162.50 



Packing 300 bbls., and Barrels, &c., 525,00 687,50 



$2,157.50 2,157.50 



Actual loss by the voyage, $ 272.50 



That this trip is the best one brought home from the Gulf of St Law- 

 rence this season. That my men were hired on shares, but in the above 

 estimate of the voyage, I have charged as wages what is paid to the crew 

 of the schooner John Gerard, of Newburyport, whose whole crew are on 

 wages, instead of shares. 



I have been in the Gulf of St. Lawrence ten seasons, five of which as 

 master. Have fished in all parts of the Gulf, and consider myself well 

 posted in its fisheries. I was master of schr Amos Gutter the last year 

 previous to this. That I was in the Gulf four years ago. We took 40 

 barrels, not one fish of which, do I believe, we caught within the three 

 mile limit from shore. W&sgone two and a- half months, and tried every- 

 where that mackerel are likely to be found in the Fall of the year with- 

 out success. Six years ago, I was in the Gulf, in the schr Wm. J. Dale, 

 and took 260 barrels in a two months voyage, all of which, with excep- 

 tion of 20 barrels, were caught at the Magdalene Islands the 20 barrels 

 were caught 20 miles from shore of Cape Miscou. This trip sold for six 

 dollars and fifty cents per barrel, and was a losing voyage. During the 

 five seasons in the Gulf as master, I have brought home 1300 barrels of 

 mackerel, not over 250 barrels were caught within three miles from the 

 shore. 



In all my experience, during the ten years I have fished in the Gulf 

 of St. Lawrence, the vessel I was in myself, nor any vessel I ever saw 

 or heard of, ever interfered with the boat fishermen in any manner, the 

 best of feeling always existing between the American and English fish- 

 ermen. When anchored inshore, they always come aboard, and got a 

 little bait ; and I never knew, or heard of a fleet of American fishermen 

 running in among boat fishermen for maekerel, but have seen British 

 boats a great many times run out among the fleet while fishing. 



