124 FISHERIES OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC 



there. Below Isle Verte were many cod and salmon fisheries. 

 Mr. John Macnider maintained fisheries at Grand and Little 

 Metis for cod, salmon, herring, halibut, eel, and fish of other 

 descriptions. Mr. Macnider testified in 1823 that successful 

 fisheries for salmon, herring and cod might be established at 

 Matane, Cap Chat, Kimouski, Bic, and Trois Pistoles. 



Mr. Vincent Bonenfant, a merchant of Quebec, also de- 

 clared in 1823 that a number of successful fisheries might be 

 maintained between River Ouelle and Rimouski. 



Mr. Remi Quirouet stated that in 1810 he carried on two 

 fisheries for two years in partnership with Messrs. Chapais 

 and Daine; one at River Ouelle and the other at Cap-au- 

 Diable, at Kamouraska. The chief product was shad and 

 herrings, but sardines, salmon and sturgeon were taken in 

 lesser quantities. In the first year of the fishery they took 

 many hundred barrels of fish, and in the following year over 

 six hundred barrels, of which the greater part was shad. The 

 price of shad was then double that of herrings, and these 

 fish were chiefly sold to merchants for export to the West 

 Indies. 



Messrs. Quirouet and Chapais visited Green Island and 

 came to the conclusion that between River Ouelle and that 

 place it would be possible to take a great many more fish than 

 could be saved. 



Mr. Charles Tache, merchant, of Kamouraska, testified in 

 1823 that he carried on ten fisheries within the Islands of 

 Kamouraska, together with the Messrs. Paschal Tache, father 

 and son, J. B. Tache, Francois Dechene and Charles Tache, 

 senior. He stated that they had salted that same year 1,000 

 barrels of herrings and three or four hundred barrels of sar- 

 dines, besides having taken two hundred to two hundred and 

 fifty boat loads of other fish, and that three thousand barrels 

 of fish might be salted there every year. He added that be- 

 tween Kamouraska and Trois Pistoles as many as 20,000 bar- 

 rels of fish might be taken in any ordinary year, chiefly shad, 

 salmon, herring, sardines, eels and cod. 



On the North Shore of the St. Lawrence there were fish- 



