90 FISHERIES OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC 



to Phelypeaux Bay and procure a license to fish in the local- 

 ity each had selected in turn of arrival. Some of the fisher- 

 men did not conform to this regulation, those from the Prov- 

 ince of Quebec particularly refusing to recognize Brouague's 

 authority, often occasioning broils which he was powerless 

 to put down. Each year he made a list of the vessels fishing 

 on the coast, with the name of the captain, the number of 

 men employed^ and the quantity of oil and codfish secured. 

 Isle au Bois, Chateau Bay, and Blanc Sablon seem to have 

 been the favorite fishing places. 



BATTLE HARBOR, NEAR CHATEAU BAY. 



Brouague's reports show that twenty ships visited the 

 coast in 1720, and that the product of dried codfish was 

 36,000 quintals. In 1721 it was 40,000 quintals. In 1729 

 when eighteen ships visited the coast and 1,275 men were 

 employed in the fishery, 33,000 quintals were exported, and 

 in the following year 34,000 quintals. In 1733 the product 

 was 46,900. In 1735 it was 50,600, and in 1736 the figures 

 reached 56,000 quintals. 



LA PECHE AVEC LA FAUX. 



Some of the fishermen on the Labrador coast had re- 

 course, in the early part of the eighteenth century, to a most 



