AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 3315 



100, if it were not for the American vessels coming for them, and they 

 have no other market for them to any extent. 



While I was engaged in the Bay fishing, my highest stock was $4,000 

 for any one season, while my lowest was $2,000. On this American 

 shore, the highest stock I ever made was $10,000 for any one season, 

 and my lowest, including this year, so far, including the 12 barrels 

 caught in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, is $3500. 



I went one trip to Newfoundland for salt herring, in, I think, 1869, 

 and also one trip in 1870, both of which trips we bought our herring, 

 paying one dollar in gold per barrel. The first voyage, we bought 850 

 barrels, and the second voyage, we paid for 2,000 barrels. 1 never knew 

 of any American vessels catching herring in nets or seines at New- 

 foundland or New Brunswick. 



JOSEPH J. TUPPEE, 

 Master of Schr. Madawaska Maid. 



COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, 



COUNTY OF ESSEX, SS. GLOUCESTER, Sept. 3d, 1877 



Then personally appeared the above named Joseph J. Tupper, and 

 made oath, that all the above statements by him subscribed, are true, 

 before me, 



DAVID W. LOW. 



Notary Public. 

 No. 248. 



I, Hanson B. Joyce, of Swan's Island, Maine, on oath, depose and say, 

 , that I am Master of Schooner Alice, of Portland, have been engaged in, 

 the Fisheries eighteen years, and have been master for the last seven 

 years have been master of the Alice the past two years have been 

 mackereling the whole of this season, first going south on our shore up 

 to the 20th June, and caught 900 barrels, and netted $4,000. 



I went into the Bay of St. Lawrence, arriving at Canso, July 10th, 

 and fished midway between Cape George and Port Hood, and caught in 

 two days 140 bbls. with seine not less than five miles from the shore, 

 and one day fished of the north-end of P. E. Island, and caught 30 bbls. 

 with seine, catching them not less than seven miles from the shore. We 

 then fished between Cape George and P. E. Island, and about the east 

 end of the Island, and caught 37 bbls. altogether, one-half of these 37 

 with seine, and not any within four miles from the shore. After the pros- 

 pect not being favorable enough, we started for home and arrived Aug. 

 14th, having been in the Bay about a month, and getting what packed 

 out, 188 bbls., which sold for $1,917. We were gone, considering the 

 going and coming, a month and a-half, and the owners of the vessel re- 

 ceived three hundred and forty-two dollars, which is less than I would 

 be willing to charter the vessel for that length of time at this season of 

 the year by $200. After packing out from the Bay, went mackereling 

 on this (the American) shore, and caught up to this time, 365 barrels, 

 which will average at least $9 per barrel, $3,285. Having caught, dur- 

 ing the whole season, on this shore, 1,265 barrels, and in the Bay 207. 

 (The above are sea-barrels). 



I chartered the schr. G. W. Reed, in the Winter of 1872, find went into 

 Grand Mauan, or rather Point Lepreau, N. B., tor herring, and loaded 

 her with 150,000 frozen herring, for which I paid $375. At this time, 

 there were at least 30 sail of American vessels at this place, and in the 

 vicinity, engaged in the same business, and tiiey all invariably bought 



