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Gulf because a large fleet heaves over much bait and raises mackerel 

 better than a small number of vessels could do I think that about half 

 of our fishermen trom Cape Breton and on the Nova Scotia side of the 

 Strait of Causo find employment in American fishing vessels and if they 

 were not so employed they would have very hard times. I think the 

 coming of American fishermen to our coasts is a great benefit to our 

 people especially when the American fleet in these waters is large. So 

 help me God. 



his 



KODERICK + MCDONALD 



mark 



Sworn to & subscribed in presence of 



JAMES G. McKEEN 



PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA 



Low POINT INVERNESS COUNTY 



I hereby certify that on the 3d day of August 1877 personally ap- 

 peared before me the above named Roderick McDonald and was by me 

 duly sworn to the above and foregoing Declaration which he subscribed 

 by affixing his mark at the foot of said declaration 

 Attested : OSCAR MALMROS 



U. H. Consul 



PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA 



COUNTY OF INVERNESS 



I hereby Certify That the above named Roderick McDonald volunta- 

 rily made and subscribed in my prence the foregoing affidavit at Low 

 Point in said County. 



Gived under my hand and Notarial Seal this 3rd day of August 1877 

 (Seal.) JAMES G. McKEEN, 



Notary Public. 

 No. 202. 



I, Daniel McDonald do say on oath that : I am living at Low Point 

 Inverness County Nova Scotia, am a fisherman by occupation,! have been 

 fishing mostly in American but partly also in Nova Scotia fishing ves- 

 sels I knocked off fishing about 4 years ago because the fisheries that 

 is mackerel fishing had so much fallen off that it did not pay to go fish- 

 ing ; ever since the last 6 or 7 years the mackerel fisheries have been 

 getting worlse 10 or 12 years or longer there were about 400 or 500 

 American mackerel vessels in the bay of St Lawrence, during the 

 same time there were about a hundred Provincial fishing vessels in the 

 Bay the only bait used for mackerel, or almost the only, consists ia 

 Porgies and clams and these all come from the United States whether 

 used by Provincials or Americans ; a few English vessels use also a lit- 

 tle fat herring but this is used in quantities hardly worth mentioning 

 the Americans neither dry their nets nor cure their fish on the British 

 coasts I don't think there were over fifty mackerel fishing vessels 

 either Provincials or Americans in the Bay of St Lawrence I have also 

 been codfishiug and know that the codfish caught by Americans is 

 all caught more than 3 miles three miles from shore during most 

 of th seasons I went fishing by far the greater portion of mackerel 

 caught by the American fishing vessels were caught outside a line 3 

 miles from shore, in some years the mackerel keep more outside in the 

 deep sea at other seasons they are found in greater numbers in shore 

 of late years the mackerel have kept close to the shore ten years ago 



