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are generally the breeding fish, is of no use to any one and much to be 

 regretted. 



7. Mackerel were very abundant now as when I first came here 

 There seems to have been a falling off for the last two or three vears, 

 but this year there is much better prospect. 



8. The codfish seem to be as abundant now as when I first catue here, 

 but the number varies from year to year, sometimes striking one pait 

 of the shore more than another part. 



9. Codfish and herring are the chief means of subsistence for the fish- 

 ermen resorting to this coast, and it is of the utmost importance that 

 they should be preserved as much as possible. 



10. 1 consider the right of fishing in United States waters granted bv 

 the Treaty of Washington of no value whatever to our fishermen. 



11. It is my opinion also that the free market for our fish in the United 

 States is no advantage to us, for our fish is sold for home consumption 

 or for exportation to Europe and the Brazils. 



12. It is of the utmost importance for the future of our fisheries, and 

 for the advantage of the fisheries and fishing interests of this country, 

 that foreigners be not again allowed to participate in our fisheries after 

 this treaty has expired ; and the competition of American fishermen in 

 our waters is a great detriment to us, as they prevent us from catching 

 as much fish as we would if we were alone. 



13. If the Americans did not possess the right of coming to our in- 

 shores it would be of no use for them to attempt fishing anywhere on 

 the coast of Anticosti. 



I hereby swear that the above statement is, to the best of my knowl- 

 edge and belief, correct. 



ANDREW KENNEDY. 



The said Andrew Kennedy has sworn to the truth of the above affi- 

 davit, at Macdonald's Cove, Island of Auticosti, this ninth day of Au- 

 gust, A. D., 1877, before me. 



P. FORTIN, J. I\ 

 No. 238. 



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



of Washington : 



I, PIEREE BROCHU, of Seven Islands, in the county of Saguenay, and 

 Province of Quebec, make oath and say as follows: 



1. I am 64 years of age. I am a practical fisherman. I have lived for 

 24 years on this coast, 13 of which 1 have lived at Seven Islands, and at 

 St. Margaret's River, 7 years, and 4 years at Moniquajan. I am well 

 acquainted with the fisheries carried on, on this coast between Moni- 

 quajau and Esquimaux Point, on the north shore of the River ^ 

 rence, a distance of 200 miles. I am also acquainted with the fisheries 

 of the Island of Anticosti, from Ellis Bay, around the West Point ami 

 North Shore of the Island, as far as Cape Observation, a distance of I 

 miles. 



2. The principal fisheries of the coasts mentioned above are cod, btl 

 but, mackerel, and herring. All these fisheries are carried on 

 three miles of the shore, except on the St. John and Mingan Hanks 

 the Sheldrake Bank. 



3. The quantity of codfish on this coast is, in my opinion, qni 

 abundant now as it was when I first came here, though the 

 varies from year to year ; five years ago the boats averaging troi 

 to 150 draughts at Seven Islands and St. Margaret's River. 



