1964 NORTH ATLANTIC COAST FISHERIES ARBITRATION. 



" \Vherever I have been in Newfoundland I find the same spirit 

 exists, and that it is impossible for any American vessel to avail her- 

 self of the privileges conferred by the Treaty of Washington/' 



There, on the same page, is an affidavit by Joseph Bowie, ma-ter 

 of the American schooner "Victor/' He went into Musquito. New- 

 foundland, three times for bait, he says, and bought capelin from the 

 local fishermen. He continues, at the bottom of p. 710 : 



" The next time I went to a place called Devil's Cove on the chart, 

 but it is called Job's Cove by the people: this was on the 4th of 

 August, and the only bait to be obtained was squid. I anchored in 

 the cove about \ of a mile from the shore, and commenced to catch 

 squid with the common hooks or jigs used for that purpose. I had no 

 nets or seines on my vessel. I had been fishing about 15 minutes when 

 some sixty boats that had been fishing in-shore from us. manned by 

 at least one hundred and fifty men, rowed up alongside of us and 

 forbade our taking any squid." 



THE PRESIDENT: If your please, Mr. Senator Root, where is this 

 Musquito? Is that on the treaty coast or on the non-treaty coast? 



SENATOR ROOT: I think it is not on the treaty <-<>a-t. It was under 

 the Treaty of Washington. 



THE PRESIDENT : Oh, yes ; under the Treaty of Washington. 

 1189 SIR CHARLES FITZPATRICK: They were all treaty coast at that 

 time. 



THE PRESIDENT: Yes. 



SENATOR ROOT: They appeared to have been in the habit of buying 

 their bait until the Treaty of Washington came along, and there wa- 

 all this talk about the value of the fishery, and the Halifax award 

 had determined that we were to pay 5.500.000 dollars for the 

 privilege of fishing. Apparently, then, the American vessels tried 

 to fish, and this was the obstacle that they met from the local in- 

 habitants. 



This same affidavit goes on to say that the natives prevented their 

 fishing, and finally they bought their bait and wont their way. 



JUDGE GRAY. Do you know, sir, as a matter of fact, whether, out- 

 side of the Treaty of Washington, when it was open, the AIIHTH-HM- 

 were in the habit of resorting to what would now be called the non- 

 treaty waters to buy bait ? 



SENATOR ROOT. I think the indications are that they went to the 

 most convenient port, treaty or non-treaty coast, to buy bait. The 

 fishermen find out where they are most likely to get it. and they run 

 into one place or another place, as the case may be. Sometimes it is 

 very plentiful in one place, and then again the horn of plenty will 

 be poured out in another direction. They go Avhere they think they 

 can get it. But so long as they were buying it, it made no difference 



