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AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



grounds, but I cannot give particulars further than that I have seen 

 them so fishing off Danzig Cove, near South Point of Fortune Bay. 



I estimate the bait annually sold at St. Pierre, by fishermen of this 

 harbor, to be as follows: 5,000 barrels herrings, valued at 40,000 francs; 

 10,000 hogsheads caplin, valued at 60,000 fraucs. Besides this there is 

 an average destruction of herrings thrown overboard annually, of 

 about ten thousand barrels herrings, being found unsalable at St. 

 Pierre. 



JAMES P. SNOOK, 

 Preventive Officer, Fortune, Newfoundland. 



Sworn before me, at Fortune, Newfoundland, this 27th November, 1876. 



J. O. FEASER, 

 Commissioner of Affidavits. 



FORTUNE A. 



Names of vessels of the United State* of America in Fortune Bay for the purchase of fresh 



bait, boarded by me. 



JAMES P. SNOOK. 

 Preventative Officer, Fortune, Xewfoundland. 



Sworn before me, at Fortune, Xewfoandland, this 27th November, 1S76. 



No. 61. 



J. O. FRASEK, 

 Commissioner of Affidavits. 



WILLIAM GEORGE BENNETT, fisherman, aged 26 years, residing at 

 Fortune, Newfoundland, maketh oath and saith that 



I have become acquainted with the fisheries of Newfoundland by being 

 actively engaged in their prosecution since I was sixteen years of age. 

 I have seen United States fishing-vessels passing this neighborhood, 

 going up Fortune Bay and elsewhere. The number seen by me the past 

 summer was over thirty, but I do not know their names. These vessels 

 came into the bay to purchase fresh herrings for bait, which they pro- 

 cured. Our crew baited one of these vessels this summer; last summer 

 we baited three. Each vessel took twenty-five and thirty barrels her- 

 rings, for which they paid about twenty dollars each. The Newfoundland 

 fishery is an inshore fishery, being generally prosecuted close along 

 shores. 



The caplin, herring, and squid fisheries used for bait are inshore fish- 

 eries. I never knew of a Newfoundland vessel having engaged on a 

 fishing voyage on any of the coasts of the United States of America. 

 There are from forty to fifty American vessels frequenting Fortune Bay 

 in winter, for the purchase of fresh herring to freeze, and when frozen 



