3320 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



GLOUCESTER, Oct. 15, 1877. 



I certify that the above figures are a true statement of the firms above 

 enumerated, as stated to me by them. 



BENJ. F. COOK, 



inspector of Cu.toms. 

 No. 254. 



AUGUST 7, 1877. 



Arrived at Gloucester British schooner Harriet, Capt. E. R. Perry, 

 from Shelburne, N. S. 



British schooner Gertie, from Lockeport, N. S., arrived May 5th and 

 July llth, 1877. 



British schooner Awn, from fishing, arrived May 24th, June llth, 

 and July 23rd, 1877. 



I certify that the British schooner Harriet and Gertie arrived at this 

 Port as above stated, and fitted for seining. Also, that the schooner 

 (British) Avon, has been engaged in fishing on this coast, and selling 

 the fish at this place since May 5th. 1877. 



BENJ. F. BLATCHFORD, 

 Boarding Officer, Gloucester, Mass. 



No. 255. 



GLOUCESTER, Sept. 10, 1877. 



I, Thomas E. Roberts, Master of the British schooner M. E. McLean, 

 on oath do depose and say that I was born in Guysborough, Nova 

 Scotia, am 31 years of age, have been engaged in freighting from Nova 

 Scotia to Boston 4 years. I have brought up this trip 620 bbls of 

 mackerel, 503 of these are English mackerel. I get 50 cents per barrel 

 freight from Can so to Boston. 



Last trip before this, I bought herring at 50 cents per barrel. I know 

 that the expense on a barrel of mackerel or herring brought by steamer 

 is at least one dollar per barrel to Gloucester. 1 have brought in the 

 last four years 700 barrels of American mackerel. The freight has been 

 about the same. 



It is the universal fact, that one dollar is no more than a fair freight. 

 I was part owner, and master of the schr. Dusky Lake, of Canso. I 

 was in the Gulf of St. Lawrence mackereling in 1869 got 180 bbls. in 

 four weeks ; and not doing so well as I ought to, I abandoned this fish- 

 ery, and went onto the ocean Banks for fish. I have never been mack- 

 ereling since, but I now go freighting. 



THOMAS ROBERTS. 



COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, 

 COUNTY OF ESSEX, SS. GLOUCESTER, Sept, 10th, 1877. 



Then personally appeared the above named Thomas Roberts, and 

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

 before me, 



DAVID W. LOW, 



Notary Public. 

 No. 256. 



I, J. Warren Wonson, of Gloucester, in the County of Essex, State of 

 Massachusetts, on oath, depose and say, that I was part owner and 

 agent of schr. Tragabigzanda, of Gloucester, of which vessel William 

 Molloy was master, that in the season of 1876 said vessel made only one 

 trip to the Grand Banks for cod-fish, the first trip said vessel was fitted 

 for sea March 21st, 1876, and returned Aug. 23rd, 1876, having been 



