AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



14. I have often heard the Americans say that our mackerel is supe- 

 rior to what they take in their own waters. 



15. Mackerel make inshore to feed and spawn ; they are taken inshore 

 and I consider them an inshore fish. 



10. I have often seen the Americans transshipping cargoes at the 

 Strait of Canso; by so doing they save time, expense, and catch more 

 fisb. 



17. The Americans get bait, and ice in which to preserve it, from onr 

 inshore fishermen all along our coast, and without this bait and ire it 

 would be impossible for them to carry on successfully the deep-sea fish- 

 ery. The Americans being allowed to get bait is a great injury to out- 

 bankers, as they gobble up the bait from our men. Without ice it would 

 be impossible to keep the bait fresh, and they get this ice in almost every 

 harbor along our coast. 



18. I have never known nor heard of any Canadian fisherman fishing 

 in American waters, nor do 1 consider this right of any value. 



19. The Americans hinder Canadian fishermen by taking away so 

 many fish, by improper methods of fishing, by carrying off our bait, and 

 by taking up our fishing-grounds. 



20. I would consider it a great benefit to the Canadian fishermen if 

 the Americans were excluded. 



GABRIEL SEABOYER. 



Sworn to at Lower La Have, in the county of Lunenburg, this 7th (Jay 

 of August, A. D. 1877, before me. 



JAMES H. WENTZEL, J. P. 



No. 234. 



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



of Washington. 



I, PATRICK MULLTNS, of South B ir, Sydney, in the county of Cape 

 Breton, in the Province of Nova Scotia, collector of customs, make oath 

 and say as follows : 



1. I have been about fifty-two years engaged in the inshore fishery, 

 and have fished mackerel, codfish, herring, halibut, dogfish, pollack, and 

 squid, caplin, and other bait, and have handled salmon to a considera- 

 ble extent, and have been acquainted with many Nova Scotian and 

 American fishermen. 



2. To my knowledge, the amount of fish taken by American fishermen 

 in Canadian waters is very great. They take mackerel inshore, ami 

 have heard from Nova Scotian fishermen that they have interfered with 

 their nets inshore, their bobs being found in the Nova Scotia fishermen's 

 nets; and they take codfish and halibut offshore, which makes the in- 

 shore catch of these last-mentioned fish less plentiful, and they dres 

 their fish offshore, throwing overboard the oit'.ils, which is injurious to 

 the fishing grounds. 



3. I live close to the coast, and have within the last seven years seen 

 within the three-mile limit as many as twenty American fishing-veal 

 at one time engaged in fishing; and this fall ten years ago I have seei 

 about one hundred fishing-vessels in Sydney Harbor at one time, n 



of whom were American fishermen. Such a large number of t 

 there being from ten to fifteen men on board each vessel, caused 

 ness to the inhabitants, and from my own observation I would ( 

 very ill-conducted people, and their conduct caused such alarm tl 

 people talked about sending for a man-of-war to quell them. 



