1240 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



13. I have seen in tbe Bay Chaleur mackerel not longer than 3 or 4 

 inches, and I take it from that that they breed here. 



14. Mackerel feed on lance and shrimps. 



15. I consider it of great advantage to Americans to be able to land, 

 dry their nets, and cure their fish. 



16. It is a great advantage to Americans to be able to transship car- 

 goes, because it enables them to keep the fishing grounds, and to make 

 extra trips. 



17. I consider it a great advantage to the Americans to be able to 

 procure bait in our inshores. 



18. I consider that the Americans could not carry on the cod and 

 halibut fishery profitably without being able to procure bait in our 

 inshores. 



19. I consider it a great advantage to Americans to be able to procure 

 ice in our inshores to preserve their bait. 



20. It is of no advantage to Canadian fishermen to be able to fish in 

 American waters, and I don't know of any vessel from here ever going 

 there to fish. 



21. The privilege granted to Americans to transship cargoes is worth 

 a load, and the privilege of procuring bait in our inshores for fishing 

 cod and halibut is equal to these fisheries. 



22. I consider that fishing by Americans in our waters injures us 

 greatly, because they take our fish and impoverish our coast. 



EDWARD G. HALL. 



Sworn to the best of his knowledge, information, and belief, at New 

 Carlisle, county of Bonaveuture, Province of Quebec, Dominion of 

 Canada, this 24th day of July, A. D. 1877, before me. 



N. LAVOIE, 

 Justice of Peace Province of Quebec. 



No. 128. 



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



of Washington. 



I, WILLIAM EDWARD GARDNER, of Louisburg, in the county of Cape 

 Breton and Province of Nova Scotia, merchant, make oath and say as 

 follows : 



1. For the twelve years last past, 1 have been engaged in the buy- 

 ing and selling of fish and for two years previous eng iged in fishing in 

 the inshore boat fishing, and am well acquainted with the inshore fish- 

 ing in and around Louisburg Harbor and with many Canadian and Amer- 

 ican fishermen. 



2. I have seen in this harbor within the last six years from twelve to 

 sixteen American fishing vessels atone time, and think that about seven- 

 ty-five have come in here yearly during the past six years. The Amer- 

 ican vessels which come here do not pass through the Strait of Canso. 

 These American vessels are mostly engaged in trawl fishing, and fish 

 wherever they can get fish. 



3. On board these American vessels there are from ten to fifteen men. 

 They take on an average from ten to twelve hundred quintals of cod- 

 fish to each vessel, and make yearly from two to three trips. These 

 codfish are of the best kind, for many of them throw overboard the 

 small fish. American skippers have themselves informed me of this. 

 Thus large quantities of small fish are wasted, for the fish are dead 

 when taken off the trawl, or at least before culled. 



