1398 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



2. During the past six years from twenty to thirty American vessels 

 ran into this harbor for bait, and without this bait they could not carry 

 on the cod-fishery, and they only get this bait around the Canadian 

 coast. If they cauuot get it in one place they run to another. They 

 buy this bait because it pays them better than to catch it, as it would 

 take too much time to do so, and it would be too much expense. These 

 American vessels take from about eighteen to twenty-five barrels of bait 

 each. 



3. The codfish vessels run here about every three weeks, and do so for 

 about three times before they make a full fare. They make a trip in 

 from six to nine weeks. These vessels take from seven to fifteen hun- 

 dred quintals each when they make a full fare. They catch their fish 

 from fifteen to twenty miles off this coast, and principally by trawling, 

 which I consider a very injurious method of taking fish. 



4. I have been fishing on the banks off the coast of Nova Scotia for 

 eighteen years, and I have never seen so many American vessels fishing 

 on these said banks as I have seen during the present summer. 



JAMES BUSHEN. 



Sworn to at Port Mouton, in the county of Queen's, this 17th day of 

 August, A. D. 1877, before me. 



S. T. N. SELLON, J. P. 



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



of Washington. 



I, JOHN P. GARDINER, of Cape Sable Island, in the county of Shel- 

 burne, fisherman, make oath and say as follows : 



1. I have been engaged in fishing for thirty-eight years ; mostly in 

 the inshore fisheries on the cape off here. We catch large quantities of 

 codfish within three miles of the shore, and all the mackerel taken around 

 here are within three miles of the shore and in large quantities. Last 

 summer and this present summer I have seen American vessels trawling 

 within three miles of the shore around here. The Americans get bait 

 in this harbor, which is a great advantage to them, as it enables them to 

 carry on the trawling on the Banks off shore. This trawling in my opin- 

 ion is spoiling the grounds. 



JOHN P. GARDINER. 



Sworn to at Cape Sable Island, in the county of Shelburne, this 27th 

 day of August, A. J). 1877, before me. 



D. G. DALEY, J. P. 



No. 265. 



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



of Washington. 



I, ALEXANDER GILLIES, of Port Hood, in the county of Inverness, 

 justice of the peace, make oath and say as follows : 



1. I have lived in this place and been familiar with the fishing busi- 

 ness here for fifty years. I have fished some myself and have had good 

 opportunities of observing and knowing the general character and con- 

 dition of the fisheries in these parts during the past half century. 



