FISHERIES OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC 23 



cipal market for the salt and dried fish was at Marseille, 

 whence it was sent partly to Provence and Languedoc and 

 partly to Spain and Italy. 



Baudot, in the early part of the eighteenth century, con- 

 solidated all previous French fishery regulations, but it was 

 only in 1726 or thereabouts that a department or branch of 

 fisheries was established in the Bureaux de la Marine. 1 



Nor was it till 1683 that "the inhabitants of Canada" were 

 lawfully permitted to send to France duty free, cod and other 

 fish taken in the colony. Prior to that date, fishermen from 

 France alone enjoyed such privilege. The permission was 

 repeated in 1699. - 



CHAMPLAIN WRITES OF FISH. 



Samuel de Champlain, in the story of his first voyage to 

 Canada, in 1603, makes mention of the fisheries of Gaspe and 

 Perce 3 and also of ' ' the bank where fishing is carried on. ' ' 4 



In Chapter XI. of his "Voyage" of 1604, the founder 

 of Quebec has related how he partly occupied himself in the 

 New World with the making of fish ponds. Speaking of the 

 gardens made by some of his party at Port-Royal, three years 

 previous to his founding of Quebec, he tells, himself, in his 

 journal: "J'en 'fis un pour eviter I'oisivete, entoure de fosses 

 pie ins d'eau, dans lequel il y avail de ires belles truites que 

 j'y avals mises et ou descendaient trois ruisseaux de fort belle 

 eau courante. Je fis aussi un petit reservoir pour y mettre 

 du poisson d'eau salee, que nous prenions au besoin." 5 



1 Those who desire to make further researches into the subject 

 will find in the Archives of the Marine at Paris, series C-5, a mass 

 of letters, memoirs, statements, etc., extending over the entire 

 period from 1422 to 1789. 



2 See the decree of the "Conseil de Marine" of April 16th, 1669, 

 in Correspondance Generate (Canada) 2nd series, Carton, 11. 



o CEuvres de Champlain publiees sous le patronage de UTJni- 

 versite Laval. Quebec, 1870, Tome II, Chap X. 



* Idem. Tome II, Chap. XIII. 



~> CEuvres de Champlain, Tome III, Chap. XI. 



