92 FISHERIES OP THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC 



the faux, which, is very destructive, because in taking one 

 they wound many) 1 



It is reasonable to suppose that this manner of fishing 

 was called "la peche avec la faux" because of the employ- 

 ment of the false or imitation fish with which to attract the 

 cod to the "jigger," as it may appropriately be called in 

 English. 



On receipt of the Sieur de Brouague's protest against 

 this jigging of cod, the Council of the Marine in Paris sought 

 expert advice on the subject, and in April, 1719, referred 

 the matter to Messrs. Marin and Landreau, instructing them 

 to communicate the complaint to the fish merchants and to 

 ask their advice. 



M. Landreau replied that the merchants of Bayonne 

 knew nothing of such a method of cod fishing, and that only 

 the fishermen themselves or their captains, who had then 

 left for the fishing grounds some days previously, could give 

 a reasonable opinion of it. The matter was therefore left in 

 abeyance until the return of the Basques from their fishing. 



The practice has been prohibited for a long time in Can- 

 adian waters, but is still permitted off the coast of Newfound- 

 land and Labrador. 



CONCESSIONS IN LABRADOR. 



During the last thirty years of the French regime con- 

 cessions on the North Shore were rapidly multiplied. 



In 1736 the fishing rights in Chateau Bay. were conceded 

 by the Sieurs de Beauharnois and Hocquart to Louis Bazil r 

 and in 1749 the Sieur Gauthier obtained them from Jonquiere 

 and Bigot. 



Lafontaine de Belcourt had received in 1733 a concession 

 of land, with fishing rights, between the Itamamiou and Net- 

 agamiou rivers, and to the east of the Netagamiou was the 



i "Sur la peche avec la faux" in the archives of the Marine 

 1. 42, p. 34. 



