1256 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Sworn to at Lunenburg, in tlie county of Luuenburg, this 10th day of 

 August. A. D. 1877, before me. 



J. W. LOCKHART, 



Justice of the Peace. 



No. 133. 



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



of Washington. 



I, KUFUS KISER, of Eose Bay, in the county of Lunenburg, fisherman, 

 make oath and say as follows: 



1. I have fished for sixteen years, and have fished around Cape Bre- 

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

 Magdaleues, and on the coast of Labrador. 1 have fished mackerel, and 

 took them principally inshore, within three miles of the shore, and it 

 would not have paid us to fish mackerel unless we could get them within 

 three miles of the shore. 



2. I have fished codfish on the Labrador coast for the last sixteen 

 years with the exception of a few years. We took the codfish inshore, 

 within three miles of the shore, mostly with hook and line. I have dur- 

 ing this time seen American vessels every year on the said coast taking 

 codfish inshore. The Americans take the codfish on the Labrador coast 

 by seining, and throw away the small ones. They take the codfish with 

 seines from the shore, and close up on the shore. 1 have seen during 

 the past sixteeen years, every year that I was on the Labrador 

 coast, of which I was there twelve years, and also this year, and every 

 year for the last six, except last year, the Americans in large numbers 

 taking herring. They take the herring with seines from the shore, and 

 the Americans might as well stay at home if they were not allowed to 

 take the fish inshore. 



3. The Americans get bait all along the coast of Nova Scotia in our 

 bays and harbors, and on the Labrador coast ; without this bait they 

 could not carry on the deep-sea fishery. 



4. The Americans have introduced trawling, and we were compelled 

 to adopt this plan of fishing in order to compete with the Americans. 

 Trawling I consider a great injury to the fishery, as it destroys the 

 mother fish. 



5. It would, in my opinion, be a great benefit to Canadian fishermen 

 if the Americans were excluded from our inshore fisheries. 



KUFUS RISER. 



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

 gust, A. D. 1877, before me. 



JAMES H. WENTZEL, J. P. 



No. 134. 



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



of Washington : 



I, JOHN MORTEN, of Port Medway, in the county of Queen's, fisher 

 man, make oath and say as follows: 



1. I have been engaged in the fisheries for the past forty years, down 

 to the present time. I have fi.-hed along the southern coast of Nova 



