But a severer blow than the loss of bounty soon fell on the fishery. In 1871 the treaty of Washington between the United States and Great Britain provided that “fish oil and fish of all kinds, except fish of the inland lakes, and of the rivers falling into them, and except fish preserved in oil, being the produce of the fisheries of the United States, or of the Dominion of Canada, or of Prince Edward Island, shall be admitted into each country, respectively, free of duty.” This treaty went into operation July 1, 1873, to remain in force for ten years, and further until the expiration of two years after the United States or Great Britain shall have given notice to terminate it. At the time of the repeal of the bounty law in 1866, the product of the Plymouth fishery taking the returns from the previous year as a basis of an estimate was as follows: Value of fish, $261,053; value of oil, $24,530; bounties, $14,249, and the number of men employed was 420. I am inclined to think that the largest number of vessels ever employed was in the year 1862, when sixty-seven were employed, but in 1873, the year the treaty of Washington went into operation, there were only twenty. As nearly as I can judge the following is a correct list of vessels engaged in the fishery since 1828: Abby Morton Abeona Adelaide Adeline Albatross Albert Albion Annie Eldridge Anti Arabella Arno Aurora Austin Avon Banker Ben Perley Poor Betsey Blue Wave Black Warrior Brontes California Caroline Ceres Challenge Charles Charles Charles Augusta Charles Henry Christie Johnson Clara Jane Climax Clio Clifford Cobden Coiner Columbia Columbus Conanchet Confidence Congress Constitution Cora Costello Deborah Deliverance Delos Delta Dolphin Drake Duck Eagle Elder Brewster Eleanor Eliza Eliza Ann Elizabeth Ellis Engineer Enterprise Essex Experience Fairplay Fair Trade Favorite Fearless Fisher Flash Flora Fornax Florida Forest King Fortune Franklin Fred Lawrence Fredonia Gentile George George Henry Glendora Glide Grampus Guide Hannah Hannah Coomer Hannah Stone Hattie Weston Helena Herald Hercules Hero Hiram Home Horatio Howard Independence Industry Jane John Eliot John Fehrman Joshua Bates Juvenile Latona Leo Leonidas Lewis Perry Linda Linnet Lizzie W. Hannum Louisa Louise Lucy Lyceum Malvina Manchester Manomet Maria Martha Washington Mary A. Taylor Mary Baker Mary Chilton Mary Holbrook Mary Susan Massachusetts Matilda May Mayflower May Queen Medium Molly Foster Mona Mountain King Nahant Naiad Queen Nathaniel Doane Neptune N. D. Scudder Oasis Ocean Old Colony Olive Branch Ontario Orion Oronoco Pamlico Perseverance Philip Bridges Pezarro President Profit Rainbow Reaper Reform Rescue