AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 3239 



No. 165. 



I Patrick Webb of Harbor Boucb6 do solemnly declare that I live 

 at said Harbor Bouch6, Antigouish County, Nova Scotia, that I have 

 been fishing for Mackerel for some years I am now engaged in the fish 

 business, I own one fishing vessel myself exclusively and own an inter- 

 est in three other fishing vessels, I also supply a number of fishermen 

 and they pay me after their trips by giving me their catch of fish at cur- 

 rent prices The best estimate I am able to make at a rough calculation 

 is that the profits of the fish business during the last 5 years have aver- 

 aged about five per cent per annum on the capital and labor invested in 

 the fisheries I do think that Colonial fishermen catch about as many 

 fish when fishing together with american vessels in the Gulf as when 

 fishing alone I know that the American fishermen in the course of the 

 season call at many of the Colonial harbours and spend much money 

 and I thiuk that on the whole the presence of the American fisher- 

 men on our Coasts has been a great pecuniary benefit to the People 

 of the Provinces And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously 

 believing the same to be true and by virtue of an Act passed during the 

 37th year of Her Majestys reign entituled An Act for the suppression 

 of voluntary and extra judicial oaths 

 Dated at Harbor Bouche July 25th 1877. 



PATRICK WEBB 

 In presence of 



OSCAR MALMROS 



U. S. Consul 



PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA 

 COUNTY OF ANTIGONISH 



I hereby Certify that the above named Patrick Webb voluntarily 

 made and subscribed before me at Habour Bouche in said County of 

 Antagonist! the foregoing solemn declaration 



Given under my hand and Notarial Seal this 25th day July 1877 



JAMES G. McKEEN 



(Seal.) Notary Public 



No. 166. 



I James Gillis do solemnly declare: that I am 67 years of age that 1 

 am living about f of a mile from Cape Jack Light House, that for 37 

 years I have been mackerel fishing, two seasons I have been codfishing 

 I don't think that that Provincial fishing vessels catch a smaller quantity 

 of mackerel on account of fishing alongside of an American Mackerel 

 fishing fleet during some seasons the American fishing vessels can do 

 better iii-shore at other seasons they can do better offshore that outside 

 the three mile limit from shore taken one season with another I think 

 the Americans catch the greater portion of their mackerel outside of 

 the 3 mile limit from shore I know that during the last 5 or 6 years the 

 mackerel fishery in the Gulf of St. Lawrence has very much fallen off 

 but can not give an estimate of how much that is in what proportion 

 compared with former years it has fallen off According to my opinion 

 and experience I think that about | of the crew of the American fishing 

 fleet that comes to the Gulf of St Lawrence is composed of natives of 

 the/British Provinces who are also living in these Provinces some but 

 a few only of the American fishermen occasionally dry their nets and 

 cure fish on the coasts of these Provinces I have no doubt that the 

 presence of American fishermen on these coasts and in our harbors is of 

 very great pecuniary profit to the Peoples of the Provinces on account 



