1218 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



There is an ice-house here for keeping ice for sale to United States 

 vessels. 



The general belief among fishermen is that the traffic of these United 

 States fishermen in our waters will ruin our fishery. 



his 



JAS. + PICOT. 

 mark. 



Sworn before me, at Portugal Cove, this nineteenth April, 1877. 



J. O. FRASER, 

 Commissioner of Affidavits . 



MAEK PICOT, aged 37 years, fisherman, residing at Portugal Cove, 

 Newfoundland, maketh oath and saith : 



I was present when the above statement was made by James Picot, 

 and excepting as relates to his age and the time he followed the fishery, 

 I know the said statement to be true in every particular. 



MAEK PICOT. 



Sworn before me, at Portugal Cove, this nineteenth April, 1877. 



J. O. FRASER, 

 Commissioner of Affidavits. 



No. 99. 



DANIEL TUCKER, aged 34 years, fisherman, residing at Broad Cove, 

 Newfoundland, maketh oath and saith : 



I have followed the fisheries of Newfoundland since I was ten years 

 of age. I have seen eight United States fishing schooners in this cove 

 at one time, and as many as twenty off and on. The Mary Carlyle was 

 one of these vessels ; Jo. F. Allan another ; Henry Wilson another. 

 Captains McDonald, Greenlief, and Hines were among their captains. 



The note I show you is from Captain John Campbell, of the schooner 

 Joseph F. Allan, and it says, u Catch all the squid you can, and I will 

 pay for them, and take them sure." United States fishermen caught 

 what bait they could while they were here, but they could not supply 

 themselves quick enough, and so they engaged our people to catch for 

 them, whom they paid from niuepence to two shillings per hundred 

 squids. Each United States vessel would take about forty barrels 

 squids, some as high as fifty, and others twenty-five, but averaging 

 forty when they could get them. They got their bait without delay. 

 Captain Campbell was only a few hours ; the last men, when bait was 

 scarce, were longer. Some of these vessels had pilots from the shore, 

 Squires, of this cove, being pilot on board one of them. These Ameri- 

 can schooners took from eight hundred to nine hundred barrels squid. 

 The people here very generally gave up cod-fishing to catch squids for- 

 these United States vessels, and this greatly to the injury of our people, 

 who would have been better off, however scarce fish might have been, 

 had they stuck to the cod fishery. 



Newfoundland fishermen catch codfish generally within a mile of the 

 shore. The capliu, herriug, and squid, caught for bait, is taken close to 

 our shores. 



1 never heard of a Newfoundland vessel prosecuting any fishing-voy- 

 age on the coast or shores of the United States of America. 



United States fishermen sold codfish and oil in this cove last year ; 

 they sold, to my knowledge, one lot of eighteen hundredweight codfish, 



