AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 1215 



I think it evident that the large number of United States fishing ves- 

 sels fishing on the Banks, well supplied with fresh bait, tends to retain 

 fish on the Banks and prevent their passing in toward our shores. 



United States fishing vessels baiting on our shores, having no delay, 

 go out upon the Banks in twelve or fifteen hours from time of leaving 

 our harbors. This facility enables them to keep the ground on the Banks 

 constantly baited with fresh bait. The average catch of codfish per 

 hand for fishermen in this neighborhood, last year and year previous, 

 has been fifteen quintals ; previous to these years the average catch per 

 hand each year was forty quintals. 



We constantly get American hooks in fish taken along this shore, 

 proving that United States fishermen are at work opposite to us. We 

 have large experience that whatever piece of ground is used by our 

 own people with bultows, that there the fish is kept from passing toward 

 the shore, and as long as we keep fresh bait on such bultows codfish 

 are kept in the neighborhood of these bultows. 



PHILIP GROUCHY. 



Sworn before me, at Pouch Cove, this 17th April, 1877. 



J. O. FRASER. 

 Commissioner of Affidavits. 



ALBERT GROUCHY, aged 35 years, planter, residing at Pouch Cove, 

 Newfoundland, maketh oath and saith : 



I have followed the fishery in this country since I was fourteen years 

 of age. I was present when Philip Grouchy made the above statement, 

 which I know to be true in every particular. 



ALBERT GROUCHY. 



Sworn before me, at Pouch Cove, this 17th April, 1877. 



J. O. FRASER, 

 Commissioner of Affidavits. 



