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AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



at Halifax, are all the vessels belonging to Gloucester that have arrived 

 from the Bay of St. Lawrence with mackerel this season, up to the even- 

 ing of Oct. 19, 1877. 

 (L. S.) ADDISON CARTER. 



Dy. Collector. 

 No. 250. 



I, Joseph McLean, a naturalized citizen of the United States, now 

 residing at Cape Negro, in the Province of Nova Scotia, being duly 

 sworn, do depose and say, that I am the Captain of the schooner Cham- 

 pion, of Gloucester, in the State of Massachusetts, and that I have been 

 engaged in fishing for mackerel in the Gulf of St. Lawrence since the 

 17th of August, 1877 ; and I came out of the Gulf the 20th of October. 

 That during that time, my vessel took seventy sea-barrels of mackerel ; 

 that I came into the Harbour of Halifax last evening for shelter, and 

 expect to leave this morning. As nearly as I can learn, the other vessels 

 in the Bay did not average more than half a trip, and the mackerel fish- 

 ery in the Gulf for the present year, as regards the United States, has 

 been a complete failure. I have heard of two vessels only, which took 

 three hundred barrels the George 8. Low, and the Etta Gott. I also 

 heard that the Herbert M. Rogers took two hundred, and the Ellen M. 

 Crosby six barrels the William 8. Baker, three barrels. All these 

 which I have named have left the Bay, except the Etta Gott. 



JOSEPH MCLEAN. 



Sworn at Halifax, this 23d day of October, A. D., 1877, before me, 



L. w. DESBARRES. 



Notary Public. 

 No. 251. 



Statement of the number of barrels of mackerel inspected by A. E. 

 Goodwin, Deputy Inspector of Fish, Port of Newburyport, Mass., dur- 

 ing the years 1865, 1866, 1867, 1868, 1869, and 1870, 



17,558 



20,004 



A. E. GOODWIN. 

 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



COUNTY OF ESSEX, SS. 



Before me, E. F. Bartlett, a Notary Public, within and for said County 



ssex, duly commismissioned and qualified, personally came the above 



named A. E. Goodwin, well known to me as an Inspector of Fish, and 



whom I believe to be a man of truth and veracity, and subscribed the 



