3268 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



line towards the latter part of the season it is that mackerl is caught 



more inshore the Americans do not dry their nets on our coasts but 

 preserve them by salting them in hogsheads I have often seen Ameri- 

 can mackerel fishing vessels and Provincial fishing side by side and my 

 experience is that the vessels of the Provinces catch quite as many 

 mackerel when fishing side by side with an American fleet as they do 

 when not alongside of them codfishers (American) in the Gulf of St 

 Lawrence catch most of their bait, herring principally, and mackerel in 

 the bay, in nets, much more than 3 miles from shore the codfishers 

 going to the banks of Newfoundland partly buy their bait at Provincial 

 Ports, about enough to last them three weeks, partly they catch it on 

 the banks, if they can get squids, they prefer it I think that fully one 

 half of the fishermen of the American vessels fishing off the Coasts of 

 the British Provinces are natives of the British Provinces who continue 

 to live in the Provinces I think that the American fishing vessels on 

 our coasts is a great benefit to our people because they spend much 

 money among us and give employment to many of our men. 



NICHOLAS NICHOLSON 

 PORT HASTINGS Aug 1st 1877. 



Sworn to & subscribed before me 

 this 1st day of Aug 1877 



OSCAE MALMEOS 



U. S. Consul 



PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA 



PORT HASTINGS COUNTY OF INVERNESS 



I hereby Certify that the above named Nicholas Nicholson voluntarily 

 made and in my presence subscribed the foregoing affidavit 



Given under my hand and Notarial Seal at Port Hastings aforesaid 

 this 1st day of August 1877 



(Seal.) JAMES G. McKEEN 



Notary Public 

 No. 199. 



Duncan McEachren being duly sworn says : 1 am living at Craiguish 

 County of Inverness C. B. I am about 45 years old this is the 3d sum- 

 mer that I am at home not fishing, 3 years ago I was fishing for mackerel 

 and ever since 1853 up to 3 years ago I have been mackerel fishing every 

 summer mostly in American vessels, the Americans do not as far as I 

 know dry their nets on our coasts nor do they cure their fish on the coasts 

 of the Provinces take one year with another and I should say that on 

 an average the American mackerel fishing vessels take more mackerel 

 outside a line 3 miles from shore than inside all the vessels I ever was 

 in got their bait from the States when I was out fishing I always saw 

 the Americans raise the mackerel first, they, the. mackerel often seemed 

 to follow the American fleet because they throw out much bait I think 

 that the Provincial fishing vessels catch as much mackerel when fishing 

 side by side with an American fleet than they would or than they do 

 when not fishing along side of the Americans I suppose that all of two 

 thousand men from the British Provinces that is men who have their 

 homes in the Provinces are annually employed as fishermen in American 

 fishing vessels it is a benefit to the people of the Provinces that the 

 American vessels visit our coasts because they expend much money io 

 the coasts and give employment to many people. 



DUNCAN McEACHEEN 



