AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION'. 1 105 



No. 2G9. 



In the matter of the Fisheries Commission at Halifax, under the Tn-atv 



of Washington. 



I, LIVINGSTON COGGINS, of West port, in the county of Djgby, fisher- 

 man, make oath and say as follows : 



1. I fish out of this port in a schooner of forty-three tons, manned bv 

 eight hands, and we fish off to twenty miles off shore, and in the spring 

 close inshore. Large numbers of Americans fish on the same grounds ; 

 often seeing four and five in sight at one time, mostly trawling. In this 

 county the Americans trawl halibut off from six or seven miles to Hose 

 inshore. This trawling is very injurious to the fishery, as the mother 

 fish are taken, which is not the case in hand-lining. Ou Hear Cove 

 ground the Americans trawl inshore for all kinds of fish. The Amer- 

 icans which trawl on our grounds throw overboard their gurry, whiHi is 

 very injurious to the grounds. From this port, including Freeport, there 

 are fishing out every year twenty vessels, from fifteen to forty tons each. 

 The most of these vessels hand-line, and use kids on board for the gurry. 

 These American vessels which trawl on our grounds get their bait in- 

 shore at Grand Manan and in this county. 



* LIVINGSTON COGGINS. 



Sworn to at Westport, in the county of Digby, this 31st day of* Au- 

 gust, A. D. 1877, before me. 



H. E. PAYSON, 



J. P., County Dirjl'if. 



No. 270. 



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



of Washington. 



1. MARTIN WENTZEL, Lower LaHave, county of Lunenburg, fisher- 

 man, make oath and say as follows : 



. 1. I have been upwards of twenty-five years engaged in the fishery, ami 

 have fished along the southern coast of Nova Scotia, around the eastern 

 side of Cape Breton, around Prince Edward Island, the eastern side 

 of New Brunswick, and around the Magdalen Islands, and am well ac- 

 quainted with the inshore fishery in Lunenburg County. I fished mostly 

 as master, and am part owner of a vessel at present engaged iu the 

 fishery. 



2. From three to four years ago I fished in the Bay of Chaleur, and 

 have there fished mackerel and bait. About nine years ago I have heard 

 persons in the bay say that there were upwards of two hundred vessels 

 there at one time fishing mackerel. The American vessels carried f 

 fourteen to eighteen men, and some as high as twenty. The Americana 

 fished the mackerel mostly all inshore, within three miles of the shor 

 If I had not been allowed to fish inshore in the Bay of Cbalenr tor m 

 erel, it would not pay me to go there, and I took more than three-!' 



of my cargo inshore. 



3. I have seen the Americans take codfish inshore in the I 

 .leur. The Americans fished inshore in boats for codfish, and i 



there was fish. The Americans made the fish scarce for us insli 

 they took large quantities. 



4. In fishing mackerel the Americans often lee-bowed 



