1130 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



shores for this fishery, and are obliged to depend on our shores for their 

 codfish-bait, so that their cod-fishery is dependent on our herring fish- 

 eries for its existence. They go very extensively into the cod-fishery. 

 They also get our herring, not only for bait but also to ship to Sweden 

 and other parts of Europe. There were a lot of them at the Magdalens 

 this spring getting herring for that purpose. They take the herring in 

 seines and nets. The herring are caught right on tbe shore. 



11. The seining at the Magdalens does a lot of harm, as there are such 

 numbers of herring killed. The seines sometimes take up thousands of 

 barrels, and only part of these can be cured. They are killed or smoth- 

 ered in the seines, and the seines are finally tripped and the dead fish 

 thrown away. 



12. That at the Labrador I have Been the Americans seining for cod- 

 fish. They also trawl for them very extensively. This is a very destruc- 

 tive way of fishing. In the spring of the year the trawls catch up the 

 mother fish before they spawn, and millions of fish are lost in this way. 

 The young cod taken on the trawls are also thrown away, as being too 

 small for keeping. Numbers of the fish also get killed on the trawls and 

 get knocked about. These also are thrown away. We receive little or 

 no benefit from these vessels in return for the injury they do us, as they 

 do not trade here except for such things as they cannot get at home. 

 We don't collect even anchorage dues from these vessels, although they 

 get the benefit of our harbors and lights. They also get their wood and 

 water on our coasts, without which they could not fish. 



13. The value of the right of transshipment is a great deal to the 

 Americans. It saves them a trip home, which would save them a month 

 in the best of the fishing. That would represent a save in money of from 

 five to eight hundred dollars a vessel. They can also refit here just as 

 cheap as at home. It would generally be an advantage, as enabling 

 them to get their fish into market early, and thus catch the good early 

 markets. They transship to a large extent at Canso. Only for this 

 right to transship the last trip to the gulf would be lost, as they would 

 not be able to go home and return soon enough to make it. 



14. That at this factory or stage we put up from one hundred and fifty 

 to two hundred thousand cans of lobsters in the season, the net value of 

 which is about twelve dollars and one-half a hundred. At retail they 

 are sold for much more than that. 



MALCOLM MACFADYEN. 



Sworn to at Murray Harbor, in King's County, Prince Edward Island, 

 this 30tb day of July, A. D. 1877, before me, the erasures and inter- 

 lineations opposite my initials having been first made. 



SAMUEL PROWSE, 

 A Justice of the Peace for Prince Edicard Island. 



No. 30. 



I, CHARLES W. DUNN, of Murray Harbor, in King's County, Prince 

 Edward Island, fisherman, make oath and say : 



1. That I have been engaged in fishing for about twenty-eight years, 

 winter and summer, in both boats and vessels, having fished in the cod 

 fishing on the Banks for about seven winters. I have also fished mack- 

 erel in this gulf with the Americans from the summer of 1863 till 1871, 

 and also in the halibut fishery on these coasts. 



2. That there are all of forty sail of boats engaged in fishing off this 

 harbor, and there have been a number added to them in the last two years 



