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15. Tbe same fish that are taken by the Americans inshore are alxo 

 taken by the Canadians. 



16. Herring are all taken inshore. The Americans catcli them for bait 

 only on this coast. 



17. It is a great ad vantage to Americans to be able to land to dry and 

 repair their nets. I have seen them doing so frequently. 



18. It is a great advantage to the Americans to be able to trag ship 

 cargoes ; because it enables them to keep on the fishing grounds and to 

 double their fares. 



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

 bait either by catching or buying it. If they buy it, it is because they 

 save time, and more profitable to them. 



20. It would be impossible for the Americans to carry on the cod and 

 halibut fishery without being able to procure bait in our inshore*. 



21. The privilege of transshipping cargoes enjoyed by the Americans 

 is worth a load; and the privilege of getting bait in our in shores for 

 their cod and halibut fisheries is worth these fisheries. 



22. Fishing by the Americans in our waters injures our Canadian fish- 

 ermen very much. I have had my nets badly torn by the American 

 fishing vessels anchoring among them and sailing over them. It is 

 also an injury to us, because it brings in a competition that we cannot 

 sustain. Their vessels and gears are so much better than ours, that 

 they take all the best fish. 



EDWARD TRACHY. 



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

 county of Gasp6, Province of Quebec, Dominion of Canada, this liGth 

 day of July, A. D. 1877, before me. 



N. LAVOIE, 

 Justice of the Peace, Province of Quebec. 



No. 196. 



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



of Washington. 



I, EDWARD BUNN, of Fox River, county of Gaspe, Province of Quebec, 

 fisherman, make oath and say as follows : 



1. Have been acquainted with all the fisheries on this coast, from 

 Griffin's Cove to Chlorydrome, a distance of 33 miles, for the last 1 

 years. During the Reciprocity Treaty, the fishing by Americans has 

 been very extensive. The number of American vessels that have vis 

 these shores for mackerel fisniug during the period mentioned have 

 been about 150 yearly, these vessels averaging about Go tons, with u 

 crew of about 15 men.* Each vessel takes away from our shores. 

 average, 350 barrels of mackerel a trip. They very often make I 

 trips in a season. 



2. The Americans take mackerel by means of seines and hand 

 I never saw them using their seines on this coast. They take all 

 mackerel inshore in two or three fathoms of water. 



3. The throwing of fish oftals overboard as practiced by the 

 cans is a great injury to the fisheries, because it poisons 



our fishing-grounds, driving away the large fish and killing t 

 4. The Americans have always fished inshore during the I 

 Treaty, and always made their loads of mackerel, and oft 

 to the shore. 



