1450 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



thatjare killed in this way are thrown out and rot in the water, and that 

 goes. still further to ruin the fishing. Fishermen believe, by what they 

 see, that this seining will destroy the fishing in a short time. 



CHAS. McEACHAN. 



Sworn to at Souris. in Kings County, in Prince Edward Island, this 

 24th day of Julv, A. D. 1877, before me. 



JAMES R. MACLEAN, 

 Justice of the Peace for Kings County. 



No. 314. 



I, DANIEL C. MCLEAN, of Black Bush, Township Number Forty-five, 

 in King's County, in Prince Edward Island, fisherman, make oath and 

 say: 



1. That I have been engaged in fishing in both boats and schooners; 

 in both island and American schooners. I have fished in both in the 

 gulf and on the American shore. 



2. That this year there are more boats in the fishing on our side than 

 there were ever before, and the number is increasing very fast. The 

 reason for the increase is that the fish are becoming more valuable, and 

 it is a better business than anything else to engage in. 



3. The boats along our side take crews, on an average, of three men 

 each. These boats get in the spring all the herring they want for bait 

 in the other fisheries during the season. These boats last year averaged 

 fully forty quintal of codfish each, but they were only at codfish for 

 three weeks last season. They also get large quantities of mackerel. 

 This year promises to be a good year. I have not seen as many mackerel 

 in the bay for the last twenty years as there are now. 



4. That three quarters of the fish caught by the boats are taken 

 within three miles of the land. Along the shore is the best fishing. In 

 the fall of the year they are farther off. 



5. That I was out one trip in the island schooner E. Hodgson. We 

 did very well in her, but I forget the exact amount. The fish were all 

 taken within three miles of the shore. 



6. That I was out one trip one season, at the end of the season, in the 

 Queen of the Cape, an American schooner. We got about one hundred 

 and eighty barrels in her. We were only out in her a short time. 



7. That I was out part of one season, in fact for a trip of ten days, in 

 the Ida D. Spoford, in the gulf. We got over two hundred barrels in 

 that time. She carried fourteen hands. 



8. That I fished all the early part of one season in the Queen of 

 the Cape on the American shore. The fish there were small and not 

 worth catching. The fishing was so bad that we left and came down to 

 the gulf, where we did well. 



9. That the American schooners are now going in for seining here, and 

 that destroys the fishing on the coast. It scares and kills the fish. 

 They purse the mackerel up in the seines and the fish smother there, 

 and quantities of them are destroyed in this way that cannot be cured, 

 and are thrown into the water again. This is the ruin of the fisheries. 

 There are a lot of seiners down here now. 



DANIEL c. MCLEAN. 



Sworn to at Souris. in King's County, Prince Edward Island, this 25th 

 day of July, A. D. 1877, before me. 



JAMES E. MCLEAN, 



Justice of the Peace for King's County. 



