3222 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



hundred Dollars out of every hundred Vessels frequenting the Gulf of 

 St Laurence fishing about Seven or Eight would require more or less 

 repairs the proper proportion of which is included in iny Estimate 



In my opinion the coming of American fishing Vessels to our shores 

 has no influence whatever in lessening the Catch of Mackerel of the 

 Colonial fishing Vessels 



The difference in fitting out and furnishing for a fishing Voyage an 

 American Vessel as compared with a Colonial fishing Vessel would be 

 about twenty five pr Cent, the American Vessel costing that much more 

 than the other 



I believe that the right to fish on the American Coast would be as 

 valuable to the people of the British Provinces as the Colonial fisheries 

 are to the Americans provided our people had as good Vessels and 

 fitted them out as well and had as much enterprise as the Americans. 



And I Hugh Cameron aforesaid do solemnly declare that I conscien- 

 tiously believe that the statements made in the foregoing declaration 

 are true and I make this declaration by virtue of the Act passed in the 

 37th Year of Her Majestys Eeign entitled an act for the suppression of 

 Voluntary and Extra Judicial Oaths 



HUGH CAMERON 

 In presence of : ) 



OSCAR MALMROS 

 U. S. Consul ) 



PORT HASTINGS NOVA SCOTIA 



June 7th 1877 



Personally come and appeared before me the subscribing Justice of the 

 Peace for the Countyjof Inverness, Hugh Cameron of New Town who did 

 acknowledge before me that he Voluntarily made and subscribed the 

 foregoing solemn Declaration 



JAMES G. McKEEN 



Justice of the Peace 

 No. 148. 



Memorandum of ie marks made by James Johnson concerning Canadian 



Fisheries 



James Johnson says that he resides at Port Hastings Cape Breton, I 

 am a fisherman by occupation from 1853 to 1876 with the exception of 

 one season I have been employed as a fisherman on Board American 

 fishing Schooners on or near the Coast of British North America i e the 

 Atlantic British Coast I went chiefly from Gloucester Massachusetts 

 once however from New London I have been mostly engaged in Mack- 

 erel fishing in the Bay of Cheleur, North Cape Prince Edwards Island, 

 between the latter and Cape Breton 



American fishermen generally commence taking Mackerel in the Gulf 

 of St. Laurence or other parts of the Atlantic Coast of British North 

 America about the 15th of June and continue fishing until about the 1st 

 of November, the average voyage being about six Weeks in length. 



The Colonial fishermen when fishing inshore, alongside of an Ameri- 

 can fleet of fishing Vessels catch more fish on account of the American 

 Vessels throwing large quantities of Bait Fishing Vessels of the same 

 size in the United States would cost about Sixty per Cent more than 

 Colonial built Vessels and the Outfit about one quarter more than in the 

 Colonies, the only fish the Americans Catch in shore on the Atlantic 

 Colonial Coasts are Mackerel. The most of the American Mackerel 

 fishermen now Catch Mackerel on their own Coast only, there were 



