1490 AWARD OP THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



The scbooner Florida, of Gloucester, United States, Edmund Pyne, 

 master, was seized on the 3d day of August, 1852, by Her Majesty's 

 schooner Telegraph, Lieut, the Hon. Henry Weylaud Chetwyiid, com- 

 mander, for fishing within the three-mile limit. 



Appearance filed for defendants in this case, but under protest to the 

 jurisdiction of this court. Upon argument, the judge overruled the pro- 

 test and decided that the defendants should appear absolutely. 



The defendants' solicitor submitted and admitted the cause of the 

 suit, and prayed for an early condemnation. Vessel condemned by con- 

 sent, and decreed forfeited to Her Majesty, for the same reasons as ia 

 the case of the schooner Union. 



I cannot find from any papers in the case, at present in the registry 

 of this court, that this vessel was ever interfered with by government 

 officers for transshipping fish or purchasing supplies. 



The schooner Caroline Knight, of Newburyport, United States, Benja- 

 min Small, master, was seized on the llth day of September, 1852, by 

 Commander Colin Yorke Campbell, of Her Majesty's steam-sloop L>e- 

 vastation, for fishing within the three-mile limit. 



The schooner condemned by consent, and decreed forfeited to Her 

 Majesty for violation of the act 59 George III, cap. 38. 



It does not appear from any papers in this case, at present in the 

 registry of this court, that this vessel was ever interfered with by gov- 

 ernment officers for transshipping fish or purchasing supplies. 



Of date 15th August, 1853, the following minute of court appears : 



Eegina v. American fishing vessel Starlight. 



Affidavits made before the judge in chambers by Colin Yorke Camp- 

 bell, captain commanding Her Majesty's steam-sloop Devastation, John 

 May, esq., master, and George Eathbone, esq., second lieutenant, and 

 George Harris, esq., midshipman of the same. 



No further entry in this case appears on the record of the court, and 1 

 presume therefore that the prosecution of the Starlight was abandoned. 

 (Signed) CHARLES DESBKISAY, 



Registrar. 



No. 32. 

 [Extract of a speech of the Hon. Joseph Howe, from the Spectator, July 19, 1865.] 



Let me now draw your attention for a moment to the value of these 



North American fisheries. You have behind and around you here, 



boundless prairies, which an all-bountiful Creator annually covers with 



rich harvests ot wheat and corn. The ocean is our prairie, and it 



stretches away far and around us, and Almighty God, for the sustenance 



t man, annually replenishes it with fish in myriads that cannot be 



ed, having a commercial value that no man can estimate. The 



ity of the ocean may be estimated by the fact that the roes of 



thirty codfish annually replace all the fish that are taken by the British, 



brepeli, and American fishermen on the Banks of Newfoundland. In 



like manner the schools of mackerel, herring, and of all other fish that 



warm m the bays and trim around the shores are replaced year by 



These great storehouses of food can never be exhausted. 



it may be said, does not the free competition which now exists 



the prices ? No. Codfish have never been higher in the markets 



