AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 1121 



quantities of fish, not one half being mackerel, the rest being herring 

 and other fish, which were destroyed and thrown overboard. 



bis 



GILBERT x PERRY. 



mark. 



Sworn to at Frog Pond, in Prince County, in Prince Edward Island, 

 this 28th day of June, A. D. 1877, before ine, the same having been, 

 first read aud fully explained to the said Gilbert Perry, who signed by 

 his mark. 



JOSEPH MACGILVRAY, 



J. P. for Prince County. 

 No. 22. 



I, AGNO J. GAUDET, of Nail Pond, in Prince County, Prince Edward 

 Island, fisherman and fish-trader, make oath and say: 



1. I have been engaged in the fishing business for about fourteen or 

 fifteen years, part of the time in boats and three years in the schooner 

 Frank, the years of 1866, 1867, and 1868. In the schooner we fished 

 all around the island, from West Cape to East Point, Magdalen Islands, 

 Bay De Chaleur to Point Le Pan, and along the Cape Breton shore. 

 She was over sixty tons burthen, and had a crew of from fifteen to 

 eighteen hands. The first season we got shipwrecked and did not do 

 much, the second year we went seining aud got over two hundred bar- 

 rals of mackerel and some thirty or forty barrels of herring. 



2. I consider that within the last thirteen years the boats have in- 

 creased seven fold, they carry an average crew of three men each, 

 besides giving employment to a great number of shore-men ; taking one 

 year with another, they average about fifty barrels of mackerel each. 

 As a general thing, we catch as many herring as we want round this 

 coast, for mackerel-bait and for home use. The best mackerel fishing is 

 done from the shore to two miles and a half out. 



3. Along this coast the Americans very often fish mackerel within 

 three miles from the shore, and I believe it is a great advantage for 

 them to have the privilege of fishing within three miles of the shore. 



4. I consider the right of transshipment a great advantage to the 

 American fishermen; by doing so they can transship their mackerel 

 here, refit, and return to the fishing-grounds without losing much time, 

 and thus save a fortnight each trip, which, in a good fishing-season, 

 would be equal to another trip. 



AGNO J. GAUDET. 



Sworn to at Nail Pond, in Prince County, Prince Edward Island, this 

 28th day of June, A. D. 1877, before me, 



JOSEPH MAcGILVRAY, 



J. P. for Prince County. 



No. 23. 



I, WILLIAM S. LARKIN, of Nail Pond, Tignish, in Prince County, 

 Prince Edward Island, fish-dealer and fisherman, make oath and say : 



1. I have been engaged in fishing for thirteen years, principally in 

 boats, but one summer in a schooner, the Rechabite, and am well ac- 

 quainted with the fishing-grounds. 



2. I made a trip of three days, in June, 1874, on board of the Ameri- 

 can schooner Cynosure, of Booth Bay, Me., in which time we fished 



71 F 



