AWARD OP THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 3103 



No. 42. 



I Kichard Haunan of Gloucester in the County of Kiwex and Com- 

 monwealth of Massachusetts being duly sworn do dejmse and NNV ili.it 

 I am forty three years old, have been on fishing trips e\vr ninre I wan 

 a boy, for the last eighteen years master of a vessell. Mont every vear 

 from July to November have been mackerel fishing sometime* all' the 

 year For the last ten years have fished priiu-i|>:illv around tin- M.i/d.i- 

 len Islands I have fished in the Bay both within and without three alto 

 limit but have caught most fish offshore Since 1872 I have .i,,.,| tlm 

 inshore fisheries to some extent. The catch inshore seemed murli |>oonr 

 than when I fished before inshore during the Reciprocity Treaty The 

 Bay fishery has been very poor for last five years, the fish are few and 

 poor, the price of Bay mackerel has been about $5 loss than the Ameri- 

 can mackerel only few Gloucester vessels from forty to fitly wer* iu 

 the Bay last year, ten years ago all the vessels fished there but by mi- 

 son of the fewness of the fish they have left it and now n*h on ton 

 American shores with a seine I have seen vessels in the Bay tiding 

 with seines but they had no luck and' tore or lost their win** 1 have 

 sold menhaden bait to the Canadians a few barrels each year, they im- 

 port a great deal of this bait from the United States now by the Treaty 

 they can come here and catch this bait themselves, to my own knowl- 

 edge there have been two or three vessels here from Yarmouth or Argyle 

 which came to catch pogies for use in the Bay I have taught rod bait. 

 salt lines &c from the Canadians have paid $12") gold for codbait and 

 as much as $500 for refitting my vessel in one summer I have under 

 the clause of the treaty,, landed mackerel transhipped it and sent them 

 home by steamer, but there is not any gain or benefit procured by doing 

 so, the expense is much greater than if I had taken the fish home in my 

 own vessel I consider the right of the Canadians to send their fi.sh in 

 free of duty and sell them in the United States worth a great deal more 

 to them, than anything we shall gain by the treaty I have known Cana- 

 dian vessels to land their small fish at home where there is a market lor 

 them, and then taking the larger ones to the United States and selling 

 them there to more advantage Canadians can use the inshore fishery 

 to much more advantage than we can, they go out in small boat* f^uni 

 the shore and can fish near shore where our vessel cannot go Prices of 

 mackerel have been much lower during the past year than before and 

 all our fishermen have lost money The only benefit of the treaty to nn 

 is the use of the harbors without molestation and being permitted to 

 buy provisions &c the inshore fisheries we cannot use to any pr>li 



The right to send in fish free of duty is of much n.ore value I 

 Canadians than any rights we have received or will receive i 

 treaty ; this is my experience of four years under this and six under 



OWTreaty - KICHAHD II ANNAN- 



COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS." 



ESSEX ss GLOICKSTER, Jan 2 



Then personally appeared before me the abovenamed K.c.har 

 to me known and made oath that all the foregoing stateme, 

 subscribed are true as far as they depend upon hisow 

 as far as they depend upon information and.bebef neb 

 true-before me- DAVID w . ^ 



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