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would average during the winter trip a catch of about eight hundred 

 barrels all the codfish Caught by the Americans is caught outside the 

 3 mile limits the Americans to a small extent catch halibut off the 

 coasts of the Colonies about 3 to 5 American halibut fishing vessels 

 fish on the coasts of Anticosti they make generally two trips during the 

 season and each vessel averages per trip about fifty thousand pounds 

 besides going to Auticosti the Americans don't fish for mackerel on any 

 other places off the coasts the British Provinces except about 15 

 American vessels who go halibut fishing on the grand banks of New- 

 foundland the Americans don't fish for any other class of fish off the 

 coasts of the British Colonies except those I have mentioned 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 the reign of her 

 Majesty entituled an act for the suppression of voluntary and extra-ju- 

 dicial oaths. 



Dated Harbor Bouche July 25th 1877. 



EDWARD LEVANGER 



In presence of 



OSCAR MALMROS 



U. S. Consul 







PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA 

 COUNTY OF ANTIGONISH July 25, 1877 



I hereby Certify that the above named Edward Levanger this 25th 

 day of July 1877 duly made and Subscribed before me the foregoing 

 solemn declaration freely and voluntarily at Harbour Bouche in said 

 county of Antigonish 



Given under my hand and Notarial Seal the day and year above 

 mentioned 



JAMES G. McKEEN 



(Seal.) Notary Public 



No. 170. 



I George Langley do solemnly declare that I am fifty four (54) years 

 old that I live at Bear Island Strait of Canso and am a british sub- 

 ject that I went first fishing when I was between 12 and 13 years old 

 and have been at it ever since, during the summer season I go in fish- 

 ing vessels but during the spring season and late in the fall I go boat 

 fishing in-shore during three seasons I have been employed on Ameri- 

 can Mackerel fishing vessels during the other seasons I have been em- 

 ployed in Provincial Mackerel fishing vessels in the Gulf of St Law- 

 rence during the last 6 or 7 years the mackerel fishing has been getting 

 poorer every year and has been nothing like what it was say 10 to 15 

 years ago I don't believe that the average annual catch during the 

 last 6 years has been over part of the entire annual catch of the pe- 

 riod of from 10 to 15 years ago my own experience in the American 

 vessels on which I have been engaged is that we caught during every 

 one of the three seasons all our mackerel many more than 3 miles from 

 auy shore during clear days the North Cape of Prince Edward Island 

 could just be seen I can form no estimate of the proportion of mack- 

 erel caught by the entire American fleet inshore from my experience I 

 don't think that Provincial fishermen ever catch a smaller number of 

 mackerel on account of having an American fleet fishing alongside of 

 them I have never seen an American fishing vessel fish for bait in- 

 shore on the Coasts of the Dominion of Canada the earliest I have 

 been in the Gulf of St Lawrence on an American fishing schooner was 



