3274 AWARD OP THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



onial fishermen, who have been engaged in the mackerel fishery along 

 the shores of Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton to procure a por- 

 tion of their bait for so fishing from United States Fishermen the said 

 bait consisting of pogies or uianhadeu being brought from the United 

 States by the fishermen of that Country. 



3rd The boat fisheries of Colonial fishermen are prosecuted for the 

 taking of Cod, haddock, hake, pollock, herrings, lobsters and mackeral. 

 Of the fish so taken in boats by Colonial fishermen, the largest portion 

 is codfish, as is shewn by the fact that the product of the Codfishery of 

 Nova Scotia in 1876 amounted to Two Millions five hundred and forty 

 nine thousand dollars while the other descriptions of fish taken in the 

 same year, exclusive of mackeral, amounted to two millions three hun- 

 dred aud forty two thousand dollars more. The in -shore mackeral fish- 

 ery of Nova Scotia amounted that year, as appears *by the Report of 

 the Canadian Fishery Commissioner, only to about seven hundred aud 

 fourteen thousand dollars constituting not more than about one eighth 

 of the aggregate product of the inshore Colonial boat fishery of Nova 

 Scotia. 



4th Of the Makeral caught inshore, that is to say, within three miles 

 of the shore in boats by the fishermen of this Province not more than 

 one twentieth part of the aggregate catch is taken on that part of the 

 Nova Scotia or Cape Breton Coast which is frequented by mackeral 

 fishermen from the United States aud which is that part of the coast 

 lying on the Northern side of the Island of Cape Breton and stretching 

 between the Strait of Canso and Sydney in said Island. 



5th Cod aud hallibut are caught by United States fishermen only in 

 the deep sea or on the several off-shore fishing banks outside of the 

 three Mile limit. 



6th The Mackeral taken by United States Fishermen in-shore are 

 caught only around the shores of the Magdalen Islands around the 

 shores of Prince Edward Island on the east coast of New Brunswick 

 lying in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the North Coast of Cape Bre- 

 ton extending from the Strait of Canso to Sydney. All other mackeral 

 caught by United States fishermen off the Coasts of British North Amer- 

 ica are taken outside of the three mile limit in the Gulf of Saint Law- 

 rence. 



7th The inshore fisheries are prosecuted by United States fishermen 

 on the Coasts of the British North American Provinces solely for mack- 

 eral and not in boats, but in vessels which only approach the shore to 

 fish during the mouths of July August, September and October. At 

 other seasons they prosecute the mackeral fishery in the deep sea fish- 

 eries of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence outside of the three mile limit. 



8th The whole mackeral catch by United States fisherjnen in British 

 North American waters in the year 1876 I believe will not exceed in 

 value thirty thousand dollars, the reason for the catch being so small 

 was that for some years past the Mackeral fishery could be prosecuted 

 more advantageously along the Coasts of the United States than on the 

 coasts of British North America. Last year was one of the most profit- 

 able and productive years on record for the mackeral fisheries ou the 

 United States Coast. 



9th. The iu-shore fisheries, that is to say : the fisheries within the 

 three mile limit on the British North American Coast are only prose- 

 cuted by United States fishermen for mackeral and in vessels, not in 

 boats 



10th. The catch of Mackerel both inshore and offshore by Provincial 

 fishermen constitutes only about one sixth of the aggregate catch of 



