AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



said bait and other fish have been and are in the habit of resorting. That to rnrtii* 

 the British subjects in the right of fishing it will require more than un oceMionii] 

 of an armed vessel some permanent establishment during the whole of th futliiti* 

 season, in the opinion of the deponent, will be necessary to do away with the ii 

 ference and annoyance above detailed. 



And the deponent, Charles Coughlan, for himself, saith, that he has resided at Car- 

 raquette aforesaid, thirty miles from Point Mi soon aforesaid, alx>ut nine yearn la*t mwt 

 and has also been employed in carrying on a fishing establishment, and that UM for* 

 going statement as relates to the interference of the American iiahermen in tukmir 

 fish, and the other interruptions mentioned by the deponent, Duncan Hay, an- comet 

 and true, and that he perfectly coincides with him as to the means of preventing the 

 same. 



DL'XCAN HAY. 



CIIAS. COi:<;HLAN. 



Sworn this 24 tb day of January, 1838, before me, at Fredericton, in the comity of 

 York. 



THOMAS C. LKK, .7. /. 



Duncan Hay and Charles Conghlan, the deponents named in the accompanying affi- 

 davits, further by way of general observations relating to the subject of the interfer- 

 ence of the American fishermen, would particularly mention the mode in which they 

 carry on their fishing, which they, these informants, consider to have a very injurious 

 effect on the fishery in general. 



In the first place, they, the said American fishermen, are in the constant habit, aftor 

 catching the fish, of bringing their vessels in very near to the shore, frequently a near 

 as they will ride, and in that situation clean their fibh and throw overboard the gar- 

 bage, which at that season of the year shortly becomes putrid, and has a direct tendency 

 to drive away the shoals of fish there resorting. 



Secondly, they are in the habit, when their vessels are surrounded by a shoal or 

 shoals of mackerel, of cutting np with machines calculated for that purpose, quantities 

 offish into small pieces, and then scattering the same about to keep the shoals about 

 their vessels, and at the same time throwing into the water quantities of dry salt, 

 which the fish seize together with the small cut np bait, which is supposed to stupefy 

 or have snch effect as to detain them, and thereby the fishermen are enabled to take 

 fish in great quantities and break np the shoals. They also throw into the water, 

 together with the said small bait and dry salt, quantities of Indian meal, which ren- 

 ders the surface turbid. This course being pursued by a large number of vessels sta- 

 tioned generally across the entrance of the bays and other places into which the mack- 

 erel are in the habit of resorting, necessarily turns their course and. prevents the Brit- 

 ish fishermen from taking the same into those bays, coves, and inlets, where they have 

 always, before the American fishermen were in the habit of frequenting the said fish- 

 ing-grounds, been accustomed to take fish. 



DUNCAN HAY. 

 CHAS. COUGHLAN. 

 ' FREDERICTON, January 24, 1838. 



[Extract from the Royal Gazette, vol. 8, dated Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island 



Tuesday, June '26, 1838.] 



On the evening of Sunday, the 17th instant, the bark Sir Archibald 

 Campbell, Tait, from Maramichi for Sunderland, in a thick fog, and the 

 sea running high, struck on the reef off the North Cape of this island, 

 and is a complete wreck. The crew got on shore the same night. 

 morning a boat put off for the wreck for the purpose of saving what 

 they could. An American fishing vessel was seen leaving the wrecl 

 and on the boat's crew arriving on board, they found that the cabin Ii; 

 been rummaged by the Americans, the lockers broken open, and I 

 all the provisions, and every article they could lay their hands n 

 the cabin, carried off, except two flags. Not contented with this, 

 had also carried off the hawsers, two new sails, part of the rigjri 

 the jolly boat. Another boat had in the mean time put ofl 

 shore after the American, and demanded the bark's jolly-b 



