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11. That I was fishing in the Horatio Babson about four we-kn, dm-, 

 ing which time we took two hundred barrels of mackerel. She WM 

 about seventy tons burden and carried fourteen or fifteen hands. 



12. That in the Albert Clarence we fished about the Magdalen Ul.unU. 

 I was in her for five weeks. We took two hundred and eighty barrels 

 of mackerel. She was a vessel of one hundred and ten tons burden 

 and carried nineteen hands. 



13. That I was out in 1873, the year of the big August storm, in the 

 B. S. Young, for four weeks. We did very little in her, only taking one 

 hundred barrels of mackerel. She was a vessel of eighty tons burden 

 and carried seventeen hands. 



14. That in the Lucinda and Native we fished principally on the 

 American shore. We fished principally out ten or twelve milea from 

 the coast and on the Banks. We did pretty well in the Native but not 

 in the Lucinda. 



15. That in all the vessels in which I fished in the gulf, we fished 

 along the shore of the bend of this island, and at the Magdalens right 

 inshore. From one to three miles off is the best fishing-ground. 



16. That, including the whole gulf, the American fishing fleet for the 

 past ten years has averaged good six hundred sail. I have counted over 

 three hundred sail of them within sight at one time. They begin to 

 come down here about the middle of June and stop till November, mak- 

 ing two or three trips each season. 



17. That the American fishermen, both cod and herring fishermen, 

 clean their fish on the fishing-grounds and throw the oftal overboard. 

 That hurts the fish. It sickens and poisons the fish, and drives them 

 away from the grounds. 



18. That the Americans are now coming down on our shore seining. 

 Some of them have already caught large quantities of fish by seining. 

 Seining destroys the fisheries, as it scares the fish and kills a great 

 many. That is what has injured the fishing on the American shores. 



19. That, from what I know of both shores, it would not be worth 

 while for Canadian or island fishermen to fit out for the American shores. 

 It would not pay them to do so. 



20. That the privilege of landing their fish, transshipping, and refitt- 

 fng is a great advantage to the Americans, as they lose so much time, I 

 should say,.on an average, three weeks each trip, by having to go home 

 with their fish. They can also refit here as cheap as they can at home. 

 The time saved during the season would be at least equal to a trip saved 

 during the year. It is also a great advantage, as enabling them to watch 

 and take advantage of the fish markets, which are very changeable. 



21. That I believe the fish come into the gulf through Causo and by 

 Cape North, and then strike for the Magdalen Islands, and from there 

 they strike up towards the North Cape of this island, and towards the 

 north shore generally. The American fishermen understand all about 

 the routes of the fish and follow them up. 



JOHN MoDTTYRB. 



Sworn to at Fairfield, in King's County, Prince Edward Island, this 

 26th day of July, A. D. 1877, before me, the words opposite my initi 

 having been first interlined or erased. 



JAMES MCDONALD, 



Justice of the Peace for Kings County. 



