1140 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



fishing average about forty quintals a boat for the season, and the aver- 

 age catch of each boat engaged in mackerel-fishing, not reckoning dories, 

 would, along here, be about thirty barrels. 



3. That these fish caught by the boats are caught not further than 

 three miles from the shore. 



4. That, taking one year with another, there will be seven or eight 

 hundred schooners engaged every year in fishing in the bay, of which 

 about six hundred sail are Americans. These schooners generally fish 

 around the Magdalen Islands, in the Bay Chaleur, in the bend of this 

 island, around the East Point, around Margaree. In the bend of this 

 island these schooners generally fish close inshore, and at the other 

 places from ten miles out to the shore. Within the past ten years the 

 greater part, over half of the mackerel taken by schooners, would be 

 taken within three miles of the shore. 



5. That -I have fished in about twenty schooners, both island and 

 American, and these schooners would average three hundred barrels for 

 the season. 



6. That the right to refit and transship here saves time to the Ameri- 

 cans, as they can save about three weeks each trip by being able to land 

 here and transship without having to take their fish home in their own 

 vessels, and that would amount to a trip saved during the season. 

 There is the further advantage that, by transshipping, they are able to 

 take advantage of the markets for fish, which is a very variable market. 



7. That when the mackerel first come in to the bay they generally 

 come up toward Bay Chaleur, Gasp6, and round there, passing the Mag- 

 dalen Islands on their way. It is up there that the American fleet gen- 

 erally goes first to catch fish. 



8. That I am an American citizen, and have fished for years out of 

 Boston, Gloucester, Cauiden, Frankfort, and Belfast, in the United 

 States. 



ALPHONSO GILMAN. 



Sworn to at Malpeque, in Prince County, Prince Edward Island, this 

 13th day of July, A. D. 1877, before me. * 



H. S. MARSHALL, 

 Justice of the Peace for Prince County, Prince Edward Island. 



Xo. 36. 



In the matter of the Fisheries Commission at Halifax under the Treaty 



of Washington. 



I, E. MARSHALL, of the island of Anticosti, county of Saguenay, 

 Province of Quebec, fisherman, make oath and say as follows: 



Was born in the State of Maine, United States ; have carried on the 

 shore and vessel mackerel fishery for about thirty years, consecutively, 

 till 1S70; twenty-two .years I spent in the shore and vessel mackerel- 

 fisln-ry at Prince Edward Island; for six seasons previous was master 

 of American fishing vessels in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and from 1867 

 to 1870 was master of the S. G. Marshall, which was seized for sup- 

 posed illegal fishing inshore in Gaspe Bay. The names of the vessels 

 of which I was master were the Orelia, of C. C. Gazel, of Alexandria, 

 Va.; Oasis, of Ingham, Mass.; Chance, of C. C. Duroc, of Boston (a 

 seining vessel); and the S. G. Marshall, of Prince Edward Island. 



. The fishing by American schooners was very extensive from 1852 

 to '70. During that period the number of American vessels which have 



