AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 1857 



no fish there. Some vessels used to drift oft' the land, but they would 

 have to sail in again; they could get no fish beyond the three mile 

 limit. 



Mr. Campbell stated that two thirds of the fish taken by the fishing- 

 vessels in the Bay of Chaleur are taken within the three-mile limitM. 

 The American fleet, he said, caught mackerel from two to two and a half 

 miles from the coast. There was not much fishing doing outside three 

 miles. 



Mr. Poirier stated that he could safely say, from an experience of forty 

 years, that he had never caught mackerel more than two miles from the 

 shore. 



Mr. Sinuett, of Gaspe, stated that he had seen American skippers fish 

 two miles from the shore, and inside a mile for mackerel. He had never 

 seen them further than that ; they generally fished, said he, in by the 

 shore. Codfish, said he, is caught in his neighborhood at from one and 

 a half to two miles from the shore. 



Mr. Greuier stated that he had seen some fishing for mackerel beyond 

 three miles, but the majority fished within the limit. More than two- 

 thirds of the whole catch of Americans is taken inside three miles. 



Mr. MacLeod stated that American fishing-vessels fished mostly 

 within three miles, in the Bay of Chaleur. He himself had taken tisu 

 off Miseou and Shippegan within half a mile of the shore. 



Mr. A. McKenzie stated that the American licet took two-third* of 

 their catch inshore, but he added that some skippers got all their catch in 

 deep icater, perhaps one vessel in twenty. 



Mr. Angus Grant 'spoke of the trips he had made, all inshore or close 

 inshore, from one-half mile to one and one-half miles. 



Mr. Brown made a statement to the same effect. 



Mr. MacKay spoke of the catches he had made inshore off Cape 

 ^Breton, so close that he would sometimes be at anchor among the boats. 



Captain Hardinge, E. K, stated that the best fishing was without u 

 doubt within three miles; there could be no two opinions on that point. 

 From his experience and observation on his fishing station, and from 

 information he had obtained, he stated it as his opinion that the outside 

 fishing for mackerel was of no account whatever, lie had never re- 

 ceived any information to the contrary. 



Mr. Nicholson stated that with regard to the mackerel he had seen 

 taken, all the catch was within three miles of the shore. 



Mr. McGuire stated that most of the United States captains with 

 whom he had conversed said that they caught their mackerel inshore. 



Mr. Stapleton considered, as a result of his conversations with Ameri 

 caii fishermen, that three-fourths of the fish are caught inshore. In 

 1851 he had fished with fifty American vessels close inshore near Mar- 

 garee and around Cheticamp, and all got full fares within' a quarter of 

 a mile of shore. 



Mr. Baker stated that three-fourths of the mackerel taken I 

 Americans on the Gaspe coast and in the Bay of Clmleur was i 

 within the three-mile limit. 



Mr. Jessop, of Gaspe, had seen the Americans fishing in his dif 

 right along the shore, and within one mile or two miles of the a 



Mr. Coutoure stated that he had taken cod in an American v 

 the Cape Breton coast, from one mile to one and a half mil 

 shore, and had made good catches of mackerel oft 1 P. B. L 

 two miles of the shore. 



Mr. William MacDounel stated that all the fi-sh he had take 

 garee and Cheticamp were within three miles of the shore. 

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