1426 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



years now past, and am still so engaged. I fish from inshore, off to 

 three miles, and there are about fifty boats here so engaged. We take 

 codfish, haddock, hake, and pollock, and herring, the latter principally 

 for bait. 



2. From eight to ten American vessels since 1871 come here on our 

 inshore grounds, and take fish in our harbor, and within three miles ot 

 the shore. These vessels are from nine to sixty tons, and carry from 

 five to nine men each. They take fish mostly by trawling. They trawl 

 in this harbor close inshore. They get bait by setting their nets, which 

 interferes very much with the inhabitants here, as they take up the 

 grounds so that we find it difficult to get a place for our nets, and take 

 away the bait from us. They set their nets Saturday, and keep them 

 set on Sunday, which the inhabitants here do not. They keep their 

 nets set during the day-time, which is injurious to the herring fishery. 



3. The Americans here throw their "gurry" overboard, which our 

 small vessels and boats do not do. We have a gurry ground here laid 

 out, where our fishermen throw their " gurry." 



4. There are eight vessels owned here which fish off to four or five 

 miles from the shore, and from that into the shore. These vessels are 

 from fifteen to twenty-five tons each, and carry from six to ten men. 

 These vessels take on an average each year eight hundred quintals of 

 fish each, and bring all their gurry inshore. 



5. Every spring, from 1871, American vessels, at least thirty sail, 

 come into St. Mary's Bay, and around here, and trawl for fish, which 

 is a great injury to us fishermen. These vessels come mostly irom East- 

 port, Me. Every summer American vessels come here with seines 

 purse-seines for mackerel. 



WHITEFIELD OUTHOUSE. 



Sworn to at Tiverton, in the county of Digby, this 1st day of Septem- 

 ber, A. D. 1877, before me. 



JOHN A. SMITH, J. P. 



No. 296. 



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



of Washington. 



I, JOHN W. SNOW, of Digby, in the county of Digby, fisherman, make 

 oath and say as follows : 



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

 and am still so engaged. 1 fish in Annapolis Basin and in the Bay of 

 Fundy. I take fish within three miles of the shore ; codfish, haddock, 

 pollock, hake, halibut, and herring, the latter principallv for bait, and 

 get tins herring all inshore, within three miles of the shore. 



2. Since 1871 1 have seen in this harbor at one time from eight to ten 

 American vessels. These vessels come here to harbor and for bait. 

 They set their nets here in Annapolis Basin and along the Bay of Fuudy. 

 They all set their nets for bait inshore, the same as our own fishermen. 

 \N ith this bait they trawl for fish both inshore and offshore around the 

 coast in this vicinity. 



3. These American vessels which fish around here throw all their ' 

 " gurry " overboard, which is a great injury to our fisheries. 



4. Since 1871 American purse-seiners come around our inshore 

 grounds tor mackerel. There were two American purse seiners in this 

 harbor this summer. 



5. The American vessels which come around here nearly all trawl, 



