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we carried home four hundred barrels of mackerel. She was seventy 

 tons measurement, and carried sixteen hands. 



5. That one summer, in the Energy, a large schooner of one hundred 

 tons, we took home four hundred and fifty barrels. 



6. That I was in the Gleuwood for the fall trip, or about half the sea- 

 son; in her we carried home two hundred and seventy five barrels. She 

 was a schooner of about sixty-five tons, and carried fourteen or fifteen 

 hands. 



7. That I was in the Rose Skerret, fishing in this bay for the first trip 

 of about two mouths, July and August, and we took home two hundred 

 and five barrels. She was about seventy-five tons, and carried seven- 

 teen hands. 



8. That I was one whole season in the Pescidore, fishing in the bay 

 for two trips. We carried home in all five hundred and fifty barrels. 

 She was about fifty -eight tons burden, and carried fourteen hands. 



9. That I was in the O. D. Oliver, for two-thirds of the season, when 

 we carried home two hundred and seventy-five barrels of mackerel. 



10. That in my experience of fishing in the bay, we averaged, for the 

 whole season, from five to six hundred barrels of mackerel each year. 



11. That one season in the John Somes, we took home seven hundred 

 barrels of mackerel. She was about sixty -five tons burden, and car- 

 ried fifteen and sixteen hands. 



12. That in the first part of the season, the fish caught in these ves- 

 sels were mostly caught between West Point arid North Cape of this 

 island ; in the latter part at North Cape, Magdalens, Port Hood, and 

 some at Sydney. 



13. That I was half of two seasons on the American shores, mack- 

 erel-fishing; two hundred and fifty barrels was the most we got. Most 

 of the mackerel there are seined, and I think the seining prevents the 

 hooking. 



14. That there is a large fleet of American vessels engaged in the cod- 

 fishing. All the western and Grand Bankers get their bait from the 

 Newfoundland and Dominion shores. They also get their ice there too. 

 The cod fishery is dependent on these herring fisheries for its existence, 

 as without the herring you cannot get codfish. 



15. That there is also a large halibut fishery off Newfoundland, Grand 

 Banks, and the Nova Scotia shores. These u>e herring for bait, and 

 other small fish, but they do not use so much herring as cod fishermen. 



16. That the right of transshipment is of value to the Americans, in 

 this way, that they can thereby save three weeks on the trip, which, in 

 good ye"ars, would amount to about a trip saved. They can refit at 

 pretty much the same rate as at home. 



17. That I believe that trawling and seining are ruinous to fishing, as 

 the trawls catch up the old mother codfish before they spawn. The 

 seining does harm, as it catches big and small, and the small are never 

 used ; and when large catches are made there are quantities of fish killed 

 in the seines and these are lost. 1 have known vessels take two or 

 three hundred barrels more than could be saved, and these had to be 

 tripped out and went to the bottom. 



JAMES HOWLETT. 



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

 this 31st day of July, A. D. 1877, before me. 



DANIEL GORDON, 

 J. P. for Prince Edward Island. 



