AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 3101 



for from $50 to $75 a trip, while we pny from tlfio to t'.'nn |M . r m 

 thus they can under sell and make a profit win-re we could not live _ ' 



NICHOLAS WAKICKN 



COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS 

 ESSEX ss GLOIVKSTKB Jany 2rtih 1H7U 



Then personally appeared the abovenamed Nicholas Warien to 1110 

 known and made oath that all the foregoing statement* *nb*ciilN-d hv 

 him are true as far they depend upon his own knowledge .m.l ... far a"* 

 they depend upon information and belief he believes them to IM- trur- 



Before me 

 (Seal) DAVID W. LOW 



Xutaru I'ullic. 

 No. 40. 



I Henry Hardy of Gloucester in the County of Essex and Common- 

 wealth of Massachusetts, being duly sworn do depose and Hay that I 

 have been engaged in the fishery business for twenty one yearn,' for hint 

 seventeen years master of a vessel Since 187ii have bee'n in the H.y 

 each year, very few fish were caught inshore not one eighth |>ortioti of 

 the whole catch. This was in 1873 & 1874 last year did not fish inxhon* 

 as I did better outside My principal catch has always lM>en about the 

 Magdalen Islands Last year there were about 1-5 vessels in the Bay 

 of which perhaps 40 were from Gloucester. All most nil the inhorehay 

 fishery is carried on by the Canadians in small boats from the shore, MO 

 that they can use this fishery with profit where we could not, a* they 

 can follow the fish closer to the shore Fewer and fewer vessel* go to 

 the Bay each season as they can make more profit seine fishing on the 

 American coast I have tried to use a seine for mackerel in the lUy 

 but I had no luck, the fish would not school there as the do in our 

 waters and the water in many places is too shoal to permit of its being 

 used to any advantage I think the free importation clause in the 

 Treaty of great advantage to the Canadians, as they can rarry on the 

 business so much cheaper than we can, There is a rebate of duty on all 

 articles bought by fishermen for their business and they ran build loat* 

 and hire men much cheaper Many men have gone Irorn here to the 

 Provinces, where they can buy a boat for 50 and by going out from 

 the shore catch there fish and carry them back at night, making more 

 money than by going on fishing trips. Large Canadian fishing ve.*el* 

 have come to Gloucester and sold their fish there green Canadian* ue 

 as bait herring which they catch in their own waters but this 

 bait and when they can they procure menhaden bait from ti*- 

 can vessels spend a great deal of money for supplies & in Canada. 

 in one summer paid out $2000.00 for refitting The merchant 

 complain and say that they have lost a great deal of money 

 inution of business caused by our vessels not coming to the I 

 used to The only benefit under the treaty we receive 

 enter harbors &c without molestation, we were tronl 

 and driven away from the harbors on the ground 

 paring to fish." I have been chased several times by cu 

 was more than seven miles away from the land and one*- i 

 Harbor" Causo I was seized as a prize and my nails rtripi*. 

 I could not get away within the given time allowed 

 from the Canadians are the rights in their harbors which a 

 all other vessels except American fish ing- vessels IFNR .. u , V KDY 



