1206 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Sworn to at Rose Bay, in the county of Lunenburg, this 8th day of 

 August, A. D. 1877, before me. 



JAMES H. WENTZEL, J. P. 



No. 88. 



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



of Washiugton. 



I, DANIEL GETSON, of Getson's Cove, in the county of Lunenburg, 

 master mariner, make oath and say as follows : 



1. I have been engaged in fisheries for sixteen years. I have fished 

 along the southern coast of Nova Scotia, around Cape Breton, on the 

 eastern coast of New Brunswick, around Prince Edward's Island, the 

 Magdalenes, and on the Canadian coast of Labrador, and I have also 

 been personally engaged in Bank fL-hing and am well acquainted with 

 the inshore fishing in Lunenburg County. I have taken mackerel, her- 

 ring, and codfish, and all the kinds of fish found on the above-men- 

 tioned coasts. 



2. I have seen at one time in the North Bay five hundred American 

 mackerelmen at least. I have made calculations along with Nova 

 Scotian and American skippers, and one fall we concluded there were 

 700 sail in the said bay. This calculation was made about five years 

 ago. During the last five years I have seen the Americans in the North 

 Bay in very large numbers. 



3. Mostly all the mackerel are taken inshore, and it would not pay ns 

 to go there unless we could take them witbiu three miles of the shore, 

 nor would I go, as I intend to do in a week's time, unless I could catch 

 them within three miles of the shore. The Americans often lee-bow us, 

 and I have been run into by American vessel, and have suffered from 

 five to six hundred dollars loss. 



4. The Americans get bait from Cape Sable to Labrador, all round 

 the Canadian coast, and without this bait it would be impossible for 

 them to catch fish upon the Banks. 



5. The Americans take codfish principally by trawling, and very sel- 

 dom use hand-lining. Trawling I consider bad for the fishery, as it de- 

 stroys the mother fish. 



6. I have seen the Americans use purse-seines inshore and off shore, 

 and this purse-seining I consider very injurious to the fishery, as they 

 take the small fish, and many fish are destroyed. I have never seen a 

 Canadian vessel use a purse seine. 



DANIEL GETSON. 



Sworn to at Getson's Cove, in the county of Lunenburg, this 8th day 

 of August, A. D. 1877, before me. 



JAMES H. WENTZEL, J. P. 



No. 89. 



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



of Washington. 



I, DAN RISSER, of Rose Bay, in the county of Lunenburg, fisherman, 

 make oath and say as follows : 



1. I have been engaged in fishing for twenty-five years. I have fished 

 in the Bay of Chaleur, around Cape Breton, eastern side of New Bruns- 



