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eries in the early part of the 19th century for salmon and 

 porpoises at Isles-aux-Coudres, St. Paul's Bay, Murray Bay, 

 Tadoussac, Mille-Vaches, Mingan and elsewhere. The cod 

 fishery commenced at the Godbout and continued eastward 

 at intervals, as far as Blanc Sablon. 



Several vessels were fitted out annually at Quebec in the 

 early twenties of the last century for Labrador and other fish- 

 ing coasts in the Gulf, and the fish taken by them was brought 

 back to this port for export. 



In 1823, a bill "for the better 

 regulation of the Fisheries in the 

 Inferior District of Gaspe" was in- 

 troduced into the Legislature by Mr. 

 J. T. Taschereau, M.P., the father of 

 the late Cardinal Taschereau and of 

 the late Judge Jean Thomas Tascher- 

 eau, and the grandfather of the Hon. 

 Alexandre Taschereau, Minister of 

 Public Works and Labor of the 

 Province of Quebec. This bill 

 was referred to a special com- 

 mittee, composed of Messers. Jean Thomas Taschereau, 

 Taschereau, Quirouet, Davidson, 



Bourdages, Lagueux, M'Cullum and Tache, and of this 

 committee Mr. Taschereau was the chairman. It heard a 

 number of witnesses, the testimony of some of them having 

 been already referred to and quoted from on previous pages. 

 After due deliberation, the committee reported to the House 

 as follows: 



REPORT OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE. 



"Your committee are of opinion, that from the foregoing 

 evidence, the state of the fisheries, and of the trade in fish 

 from this Province, may be sufficiently understood to enable 

 the House to form a just idea of the importance of the subject 

 to your committee, and of the urgency of Legislative inter- 

 ference to rescue from impending ruin a neglected though 



