1422 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



3. Around this harbor large quantities of mackerel are taken, princi- 

 pally in traps, and the Americans purchase them for bait. The selling 

 of these mackerel to Americans is of no advantage to us, as we can sell 

 them in other markets. Thousands of barrels of mackerel are taken 

 around in this vicinity; as many as six thousand barrels at least last 

 year were taken. The mackerel taken in here bring better prices in 

 American markets than the mackerel taken in American waters. I 

 have been informed of Americans being interested in traps for mackerel 

 around here. The Americans purchase the most of their bait here, be- 

 cause by so doing they save time. All the American vessels which run 

 here carry nets to catch bait. 



4. American vessels run in here and sell their small fish ; by so doing 

 they are enabled to purchase bait and supplies, and carry home a cargo 

 of large and valuable fish. The Americans run in here for supplies 

 when they run short, sometimes for salt; by so doing they are greatly 

 benefited. 



5. The trawling carried on by the Americans on the Banks off the 

 shore is, in my opinion, very injurious to the fisheries. Trawling has 

 been carried on to a considerable extent lately by our fishermen. They 

 have been compelled to do so, in order to compete with the Americans 



0. The Americans also get large quantities of herring here for bait. 

 These herring are all taken inshore within three miles of the shore. On 

 this island there is a population of over two thousand, and there are 

 upwards of four hundred boats engaged in fishing around this island. 

 Many of these boats take one hundred and seventy-five quintals of fish 

 each. 



ELEAZAR CROWELL, 



Merchant. 



Sworn to before me this 27th day of August, 1877. 



D. G. DALEY, J. P. 



No. 290. 



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



of Washington. 



1, DANIEL V. KENNY, of Cape Sable Island, in the County of Shel- 

 burue, fisherman, make oath and say as follows : 



1. I have been engaged in the fisheries for twenty years now past, 

 mostly in the inshore fisheries in Shelburue County, and have been en- 

 gaged in American vessels in Bank fishing from 1870 to 1874. We got 

 our bait in Canadian ports, and we could not have carried on the Bank 

 fishing successfully unless we got this bait in Canadian ports inshore. 

 When fishing in the American vessels we took codfish on the Banks by 

 trawling, which I consider very injurious to the fisheries, as it destroys 

 the spawn fish. When fishing in the American vessels we trawled in- 

 shore around Cape Breton, on Auticosti, and around Newfoundland 

 within three miles of the shore. In getting bait our supply is interfered 

 with by American vessels, as they often gobble up the bait from us aad 

 make it dearer. 



DANIEL V. KENNY. 



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

 day of August, A. D. 1877, before uie. 



D. G. DALEY, J. P. 



