1344 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



port, county of Gaspe". Province of Quebec, Dominion of Canada, this 

 2oth day of July, A. D. 1877, before me. 



N. LAVOl-fa/, 



Justice of the Peace, Province of Quebec* 



No. 212. 



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



of Washington. 



I, S. B. HAMMOND, of Lockeport, in the county of Shelburne, make 

 oath and say as follows : 



1. I have been well acquainted with the fishing business for the last 

 fifteen years, and have vessels at presenent gaged in that business, and 

 am well acquainted with the inshore fisheries in this county. 



2. Out of this port about one hundred vessels are engaged in the fish- 

 ing business ; most of these vessels are engaged in the shore fisheries. Fifty 

 at least of these vessels get their bait in this county. Many American fish- 

 ing-vessels run to thisport for bait, and to other ports in this county. They 

 also get ice in which to pack their bait in this port and in other ports 

 in the county. The American vessels which get their bait and ice in 

 this port fish from ten to forty miles off this coast, and without this bait 

 and ice they could not profitably carry on the fishery on the coast. The 

 Americans carry on the fishery off this coast within the said distance, by 

 trawling, which I consider a bad way of taking fish. Our vessels take 

 fish within the said distance principally by hand-lining, and have 

 adopted trawling only this year to any extent in order to compete with 

 the Americans. 



3. The small codfish and scale fish, the greater part of which the 

 Americans were in the habitof throwing overboard, they now bring into 

 this port and sell at a profitable price. The Americans are thus enabled 

 to come in and sell their small fish ; run off and fish ; come in again and 

 sell their small fish, and finally go home filled up with a cargo of large 

 and valuable fish. 



S. B. HAMMOND. 



Sworn to at Lockeport, in the county of Shelburne, this 21st day of 

 August, A. D. 1877, before me. 



AUSTIN LOCKE, J. P. 



No. 213. 



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



of Washington. 



I, WILLIAM LLOYD, of Lockeport, in the county of Shelburne, master 

 mariner, make oath and say as follows: 



1. I have been engaged in the fisheries for twen ty-eight years, for 

 twenty four years as master. I have fished along the southern coast of 

 Nova Scotia from inshore off seventy-five miles and took mostly codfish, 

 and am well acquainted with the inshore fisheries in Shelburne County. 



2. I have seen in one day twenty sail of American vessels engaged in 

 taking codfish on the above-mentioned fishing grounds. From La Have 

 Bank to Brown Bank there are this summer at least fifty vessels of 

 Amt'ricaus. They are double the number of our vessels. These Amer- 

 ican vessels carry from ten to fifteen men each, and take from sixty 



