AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 

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Table showing tlie statistics of the manufacture of menhaden oil and yuano in tlie United -Stales 

 in the years 1873, 1874, 1875, 1876. 



Total number of menhaden annually taken on the coast of the United States, estimate 750,000,000. 



In 1874 cue company, on the coast of New Jersey, put up 30,000 dozen boxes of menhaden in oil, 

 nnder the name of "American sardines," the value of which was, at least, $90 000. 



On the coast of New England thirty-five decked vessels, and numerous small ones, engage in the bait 

 fishery, the catch of which approximates 100,000 barrels annually, worth from f 100,000 to $130,000. 



I, Hamilton Andrews Hill, of Boston, in the County of Suffolk and 

 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being duly sworn, do hereby depose 

 and declare that I was Secretary of the Boston Board of Trade from 

 1867 to 1873, and of the National Board of Trade of the United States 

 from its organization in 1868 to 1873, during which time I was con- 

 stantly engaged in studying the trade of the United States and other 

 countries, and have had much experience in compiling statistics, and 

 that I have compiled the series of tables hereto annexed relating to the 

 fisheries and the trade in fish between the United States and British 

 North America, and that they are correct to the best of my belief. These 

 tables are numbered from one (1) to seventeen (17) respectively. Num- 

 bers (1) one to (8) eight and (10) ten and (13) thirteen to (15) fifteen, 

 were compiled from the annual volumes on Commerce and Navigation 

 issued by the Bureau of Statistics at Washington, and from special 

 tables relating to the Fisheries and the Fish trade, prepared under the 

 direction of Dr.* Young, Chief of that Bureau. 



Number nine (9), eleven (11) and twelve (12) were compiled from state- 

 ments made up at the Custom House in Boston. Number sixteen (16) 

 was made up from the Annual Reports of the Canadian Minister of Ma- 

 rine and Fisheries. 



Number seventeen (17) is imperfect, and the figures which it contains 

 have been taken from such Canadian authorities as I have had access 

 to, and from Official Eeports furnished to the State Department at 

 Washington by the Consul General of the United States at Montreal, 

 and the American Consul at Halifax. 



Number two (2) shows the annual importation of Fish and fish pro- 

 ducts into the United States from British North America, from 1867 to 

 1877. Number seventeen (17) gives partial returns of the Exports of 

 the same commodities from British North America to the United States. 

 It will be noticed that in the corresponding years, the values returned 

 in the Canadian tables of fish exported to the United States are not the 

 equivalent to those given in the American tables of fish imported from 



