AWARD OP THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



sometimes in as large quantities as three hundred pounds nor vessel 

 per season. This I consider very destructive to the cod-fishing The 

 cod thus thrown away is similar to those caught inshore bv the Can* 

 dian fishermen. 



5. The practice of throwing offal of every kind carried on bv A men- 

 can fishermen on the fishing-ground I consider very injurious. * It kilU 

 the fish and drives them off the ground. 



6. The inshore fisheries are of greater value to Canadian fishermen 

 than the outshore fisheries. I consider the inshore fishery of double the 

 value of the outshore ones. 



7. All kinds of fish are caught inshore by Canadian fishermen. Since 

 1871 the price of fish has gone down. This is due to the privilege* 

 granted to the Americans of fishing, landing, &c., inshore, therein- en- 

 abling them to produce a greater quantity than they otherwise would. 



8. Herring fishing is all inshore, with very few exceptions. .\ tneri- 

 cans fish herring inshore for bait. 



9. Some mackerel spawn in Whitehaven Harbor and along the coast* 

 but their principal spawning-ground is in the Xorth Bay. They al- 

 ways feed along the coast wherever they go. 



10. It is a great privilege to the Americans to be allowed to land on 

 our coast to dry their nets and cure their fish as well as to procure sup- 

 plies, &c. The privilege of transshipping their cargo is of advantage to 

 them, enabling them to make more trips per season, catch more fish, and 

 thus compete with greater advantage with the Canadian fishermen.' 



11. I am of opinion that the privilege of being allowed to procure bait 

 inshore is of very great advantage to the Americans. Without this 

 privilege they could not fish with profit. They fish or buy as it pays 

 them best. If they were not allowed the rights granted by the Wash- 

 ington Treaty they could not carry on their fishing operations at all. 



12. To the best of my knowledge the privileges granted to Canadians 

 by the Washington Treaty of fishing in American waters is worthless, 

 as they have enough fisheries of their own. I never heard or knew of 

 a Canadian vessel fishing in American waters. 



13. It is an injury to Canadian fishermen that the Americans are al- 

 lowed to land and fish inshore. Canadian fishermen have now to sink 

 their nets for safety from vessels frequenting the inshore, and even with 

 this precaution the nets are destroyed. 



his 



WILLIAM + MONHOK. 



mark. 



Sworn to at Whitehaven, in the county of Guysboro', this 24th day of 

 July, A. D. 1877, before me, first having been read and explained. 



JAMES A. TORY, 

 J. P. for the Connti/ of (juyxbornugh. 



No. 257. 



In the matter of the Fisheries Commission at Halifax, under the 'J 



of Washington. 



I, MATTHEW MUNROE, of Whitehaven, in the county of Gnysboro, 

 fisherman, make oath and say as follows : 



1. I am acquainted with the fisheries dnrir.g the last twel 

 and during that time I have been three years fi suing with tl 

 both at cod and mackerel fishing. 

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