1316 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



10. The American trawlers resort to the inshores of the Magdalen 

 Islands for bait for their cod fishery. 



11. Cod, halibut, and haddock are taken in the inshore waters of the 

 islands by the American fishermen, and also by the Canadians. 



12. The food of mackerel is found inshore. It consists of lance, 

 Shrimp, sea-Heas, and insects adhering to rockweeds. Many breed in- 

 shore on sandy and muddy bottom in Pleasant Bay and the small Coves 

 around the Magdalen Islands. 



13. I consider it a great advantage to the Americans to be allowed to 

 land to dry and repair their nets, and to cure their fish. 



14. The privilege of transshipping cargoes enjoyed by the Americans 

 is a great advantage, because it enables them to keep on the fishiug- 

 grounds, and to double their fares during the fishing season. 



15. It is a great advantage to the Americans to be able to procure 

 bait in our inshores, either by fishing for or buying it. If they buy it, 

 it is because they find it more profitable, and it saves time. 



16. The Americans could not carry on the cod and halibut fisheries 

 about the Magdalen Islands so profitably without being able to resort 

 to our inshores to procure bait. 



17. It is of no practical advantage to Canadians to be allowed to fish 

 in American waters. And I don't know of any Canadian vessels ever 

 going there to do so. 



18. The privilege of transshipping cargoes to the Americans is worth 

 a load. And the privilege of getting bait in our inshores for their cod 

 ami halibut fisheries is worth from 50 to GO per cent, of these fisheries, 

 which would otherwise not exist. 



li). Fishing by Americans in Canadian waters hinders the fishing 

 operations of our fisheries to a great extent. Not only by their practice 

 of enticing the fish away from the boats or by the practice of throwing 

 fish offal overboard on our fishing grounds, but because they are so 

 much betrer equipped with vessels and fishing-tackle that they take all 

 the best and largest fish, and by superior numbers overpower the boat 

 fishermen. 



20. The Americans resorting.to our iushores for fishing purposes take 

 advantage of this opportunity to trade with the inhabit ants with goods 

 smuggled from the United States, these goods being an extra supply of 

 ships' stores taken on board for that purpose. They give them in ex- 

 change for bait and in payment for labor, thereby defrauding the cus- 

 toms, and injuring legitimate trade by regular tax-payers. 



W. JOHNSTONE. 



and belief, at Hali- 

 Douiiuion of Canada, 



Sworn to the best of his knowledeg, information, 

 fax, county of Halifax, Province of Xova Scotia, E 

 tbitt 2.'M day of August, A. D. 1877, before me. 



W. D. HARRINGTON, 

 Justice of the Peace, Province of Nova Scotia. 



No. 190. 



ID the mutter of the Fisheries Commission at Halifax, under the Treaty 



of Washington. 



I, CHARLES FOUBNIEB, of Magdalen River, county of Gaspe", Province 

 (JiiulMM:, fisherman, make oath and say as follows: 

 Have Iwn acquainted with the fisheries on this coast for 22 years. 

 From 1854 to 1SGG the fishing by the Americans on this coast has 



