1412 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



sionallv for reshipping cargoes to the United States. I consider the 

 privilege of doing this granted by* the Treaty of Washington a very 

 valuable advantage to American fishermen. 



5. I estimate the average money value to each American fishing-ves- 

 sel taking advantage of the free access to provincial ports, bays, and 

 harbors for piling, shipping bait and supplies, &c., at something between 

 seven hundred and fifty dollars and one thousand dollars per season. 



C. I believe the concession of the right to fish in American waters by 

 Canadians is no advantage whatever to Canadians. I am not aware ot 

 auv Canadians who have availed themselves of this privilege. 



EDWARD D. TREMAIN. 



Sworn to before me at Port Hood, in the county of Inverness, this 

 23d dav of Julv, A. D. 1877. 



JOHX MCKAY, j. p. 



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



of Washington. 



I, EGBERT CURRIE, of Louis Harbor, in the county of Shelburne, 

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



1. I have been well acquainted with the inshore fisheries in this 

 county for forty years now past, and have had vessels engaged on the 

 Labrador coast, and there is at present a vessel fishing out of this port 

 on the Labrador coast. This vessel carries eighteen men, and is fitted 

 out to take two thousand quintals of fish. 



2. The vessels fitted out here get bait in this harbor, both herring and 

 clams, the latter principally. At Port LeBear, six miles from here, large 

 quantities of clams are obtained for bait, and the Americans get these 

 clams at Port LeBear for bait. In this harbor and at Port LeBear 

 these clams are dug on the shore and barreled, and sold principally at 

 Lockeport. These clams are used in hand-lining. 



ROBT. CURRIE. 



Sworn to at Louis Harbor, in the county of Shelburue, this 22d day 

 of August, A. D. 1877, before me. 



JACOB LOCKE, J. P. 



No. 278. 



In the matter or^the Fisheries Commission at Halifax, under the Treaty 



of Washington. 



I, PARKER MATTHEWS, of Black Point, in the county of Shelburne, 

 fisherman, make oath and say as follows: 



1. About thirty years ago I fished in the schooner Rapid, of Lockeport, 

 in the North Bay for mackerel, and in three months we only took 80 

 barrels ; the said schooner carried a crew of 10 hands. 



I supply, at the present time, fishing schooners with ice. Last year 

 I supplied three or four American schooners with ice ; and the same 

 number this present year. These vessels took about from eight to ten 

 tons of ice last year, and the same amount this year. Last year and 

 the present reat I supplied from eight to ten Canadian vessels "with ice, 

 from four to five tons each. 



The Americans could not carry on the fisheries on the Banks off this 



