1342 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



gluts the fish ; and, secondly, because the decaying of these offals poisons 

 the water, drives the large fish away, and kills the eggs. 



8. During the Keeiprocity Treaty, and before and after, the American 

 schooners have always fished inshore, and made their load of mackerel 

 often very close to the rocks. 



9. The 'inshore fishery is by far of greater value than the outside j all 

 the fish on this shore are caught inshore. 



10. Every year during the period mentioned above I have witnessed 

 American vessels coming amongst our boats when we were fishing for 

 mackerel, and the moment they arrive they throw bait and entice the 

 mackerel away from us, so that our boats could not take any more. 

 They have done this to me and to my neighbors as often as they could get 

 the chance, thereby causing us great damage. 



11. Since 1871 the codfish have considerably increased ; and I believe 

 it is because the Americans have left our waters. 



12. I have heard the Americans state many times that mackerel 

 caught in here were larger and of a better quality than their own, and 

 brought a higher price in their markets than their own. 



13. Mackerel feed all along our iushores on lauiice and other small 

 fish. 



14. I have several times seen the Americans setting nets close to the 

 shore. 



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

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

 double their fares. 



16. It is of no advantage to us to be able to fish in American waters, 

 and I never knew of any vessel from here going there to do so. 



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

 a load ; and the privilege of getting bait in our inshores for cod and 

 halibut is worth these fisheries. 



18. The fishing by the Americans in our waters hinders the fishing 

 operations of our fishermen to a great extent, because we are not sup- 

 plied with vessels and fishing gears to compete with them. 



F. NOIL. 



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

 Hiver, county of Gaspe, Province of Quebec, Dominion of Canada, this 

 28th day of July, A. D. 1877, before me. 



N. LAVOIE, 

 Justice of the Peace, Province of Quebec. 



No. 211. 



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



of Washington. 



I, JAMES JKSSOP, of Newport, county of Gaspe. Province of Quebec, 

 fisherman, make oath and say as follows : 



1. Am acquainted with all the fisheries carried on on this coast for 



I am living at Newport, and previous to that in Perce. I 



have been engaged on board an American mackerel-fishing schooner on 



share*, I have seen them them fishing with hand-lines and seines, and 



have fished myself while on board, and caught mackerel always inshore, 



and besides 1 have seen them from the shore fishing at Newport and 



eroej and I have been on board many times while they were catching 



ish inshore during the period from 1854 to 1866. 



