AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. : ;> ; 



3. Whenever the Americans could they fished inshore. This they did 

 during the Reciprocity Treaty and at other times when they could evade 

 the law. This they also do since 1871. When restricted from our 

 inshore fisheries their voyages were broken up and their vessels were 

 ordered home. This I learned from dozens of the American master* 

 themselves, while I did business at Port Mulgrave for W. O. Ilell'iTnan. 



4. The value of the inshore fisheries are immensely more valuable to 

 the people of Eastern Nova Scotia than those outside. Very few fish 

 are caught by our people outside. 



5. Where the practice of enticing fish off shore has or is being carried 

 on, it is very injurious in drawing the fish beyond the teach of many of 

 our own people. 



6. All kinds of fish taken in our waters are caught inshore by our 

 fishermen. Whenever there are a large number of fishing vessels in the. 

 North Bay there is less fall mackerel taken, which is and has been one 

 of our most important inshore fisheries. The reason for this I believe 

 to be that the excessive quantity of bait used in the bay keeps them from 

 our shores so late that our fishermen cannot take them. Besides, when 

 the Americans frequent our harbors and bays it injures our inshore 

 fisheries and destroys the fishing gear and nets of our fishermen. 



7. I consider the privileges granted to the Americans by the Washing- 

 ton Treaty of immense value to them, and the withdrawal of them would 

 completely cripple their fishing operations. By enjoying these privileges 

 they are enabled to double their trips and more than double .their 

 catches. Indeed, without such privileges I think it would be impossi- 

 ble for them to prosecute the fisheries. They catch and buy their bait. 

 When they buy it, it is to serve their own interests, not ours. The 

 right to land, catch, and buy bait inshore is indispensably necessary to 

 them for the prosecution of their fisheries. 



8. I am not aware of any Canadian vessels fishing in the American 

 waters. The privilege to us I consider of little or no value. 



THOMAS CONDON. 



Sworn to at Guysborough, in the county of Guysborough, this 2Gth 

 day of July, A. I). 1877, before me. 



JAMES A. TORY, ,7. P. 

 For the County of Gvysborougk. 



No. 249. 



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



of Washington. 



I, ALEXANDER MCKENZIE, of Crow Harbor, in the county of Guys- 

 boro', fisherman, make oath and say as follows: 



1. I have been engaged in the fisheries during the last thirty years, 

 in and about the northern coast of Nova Scotia, catching all kinds of 

 fish caught along the Nova Scotian coast. 



2. Crow Harbor is situated in Chedabucto Bay. Since 1871 Am 

 can fishermen come into the harbor for bait and ice, to an average c 

 fifty each year. They fish the greater part of their bait, but some t 

 buy. The quantity of squid alone caught by them in this harbor 



A. D. 1871 will average twelve hundred dollars annually, at 

 They take quantities to the Banks for sale. Besides squid, 

 buy herring and mackerel for bait. The American ves*e 

 twice and sometimes three times after bait. 



