AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 1427 



which is a very injurious way of taking fish. Our fishermen have only 

 commenced trawling to any considerable extent within the two yean 

 now past, aud have been compelled to do so in order to compete with 

 the Americans. 



JOHN VV. SNOW. 



Sworn to at Digby, in the county of Digby. this 3d day of September 

 A. D. 1877, before me, 



No. 297. ,N, ././-. 



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



of Washington. 



I, JAMES PATTERSON FOSTER, of Port Williams, in the county of 

 Annapolis, merchant aud dealer in fish, make oath and say as follmvH : 



1. I have been acquainted with the fisheries along the coast of thw 

 county for twenty-five years now past, and am at present acquainted 

 with them. 



2. I have dealt in codfish, hake, and herrings. 



3. Since 1871, about half a dozen American vessels come in here, 

 principally for bait, which they get by setting their nets inshore within 

 three miles of the shore, mostly within a mile of the shore. This num- 

 ber have come here every year since 1871. Some of them take cargoes 

 of herring. 



| 4 Some of these American vessels take from four to five hundred bar- 

 rels of herring around this port and in this vicinity inshore within a 

 mile of the shore; at least four or five do so every year since 1871. These 

 American vessels are from twenty to fifty tons each. 



5. The herring taken in this vicinity range in price from two to four 

 dollars per barrel. 



6. The American vessels fish off shore beyond three miles from the 

 shore for codfish, haddock, hake, halibut, and pollack, and get the bait 

 which enables them to do so inshore by setting their nets for it. 



7. The American vessels which fish around here come early in April, 

 and remain until the last of August. 



8. It would be a great advantage to the fishermen in this vicinity and 

 along the coast of Annapolis County if the Americans were excluded 

 from our inshore grounds, as they take large quantities of herring for 

 bait, and also cargoes of herring from our inshore grounds, and injure 

 our inshore grounds by throwing " gurry" overboard. 



9. I have never known nor heard of any of our fishermen going to 

 fish on the American coast, and this right given us by the Treaty of 

 Washington is of no value to us. 



JAMES P. FOSTKK. 



Sworn to at Port Williams, in the county of Annapolis, this Gth day 

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



JOHN ANTHONY, 

 Justice of Peace, Acting in and for the County of Annapolis. 



No. 298. 



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



of Washington. 



I, BYRON P. LADD, of Yarmouth, iu the county of Yarmouth, mer- 

 chant, make oath and say as follows: 



1. I have been engaged in trading and outfitting fishermen f( 



