36 FISHERIES OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC 



* ' The large and gaff fish generally go in bulk to Portugal. 

 Not every economy is employed in utilizing all parts of the 

 fish. Should a Chicago packing house allow so much of any 

 ol ? its meat animals to go to waste as the fisherman does of 

 his cod, a very large margin of profit would be sheared away. 

 The cod's head, with its sharp, hard, enamel teeth and keen- 

 edged bones and delicate flesh, is thrown away, the backbone 

 siid sounds with their possibilities for glue and fertilizer are 

 rejected, and the livers refined only to a very crude oil for 

 leather dressing. Probably ten thousand tons of these re- 

 jectamenta are annually left to waste their sweetness on the 

 Gaspe air." 



DENYS' FISHING ESTABLISHMENT. 



Denys' had obtained from the Company of New France, 

 all the shores of the Gulf of St. Lawrence from Canseau, in 

 Acadia, to Cap des Eosiers, and prosecuted the cod fisheries 

 with considerable energy but without profit to himself, for 

 he was unable to give sufficient surveillance to the work of 

 his employes, and his affairs went from bad to worse until 

 he was practically ruined. The French Government resumed 

 possession of the immense territory granted to Denys, adding 

 it once more to the Crown Domain; but by way of compensa- 

 tion, granted certain lands in Miramichi Bay and along the 

 river of that name to his son, Richard Denys de Fronsac. 

 Later on, the Sieur de Fronsac obtained a concession of Perec 

 and the neighboring territory, and settled some seven or eight 

 families there. 1 



In 1673, Frontenac, with the consent of Mgr. de Laval, - 

 assigned the spiritual care of the little settlement to the Re- 

 collet Fathers, who -erected chapels both at Perce and at 



2500 quintals, sailing late in September and not often arriving till 

 November. ( Note by Dr. Clarke). 



i Abbe Ferland in Les Cotes de la Gaspesie 



- P6re Chrestien le Clercq in Nouvelle Relation de la Gaspesie, 

 pp. 20, 21. 



