3276 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



bait from the Coast and keep it in the ice houses, with which most of 

 their vessels are furnished. 



12th. During the last few years the mackeral fishery in the Gulf of 

 Saint Lawrence has been almost abandoned by Colonial and United 

 States fishing vessels and is being almost entirely prosecuted in boats 

 by Colonial fishermen. The fishery on the American Coast has been so 

 much more productive of late years as to attract many of those, who 

 formerly came to the Gulf; And the decline of that fishery in the Gulf 

 being such as to cause many of the Colonial fishing vessels that formerly 

 resorted there to be employed in other ways. 



At the time of the treaty the mackeral fishery along the British North 

 American coast was considered valuable and important to the United 

 States fishermen, but at the present time the deep sea fisheries and the 

 fisheries on their own Coasts are principally relied on by them. 



13th. A very large quantity of fresh fish, consisting of Salmon and 

 halibut and in the winter of frozen herrings caught by Colonial fisher- 

 men find a market in the United States probably from two hundred 

 thousand to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth of fresh Sal- 

 mon alone being exported annually from the British Provinces of North 

 America to the United States. A large number of vessels load annually 

 at Fortune Bay in the Island of Newfoundland with frozen herrings 

 there caught by Colonial fishermen for the United States Market and 

 emploj'ment is thereby given and benefits received by large numbers of 

 Colonial fishermen who are engaged in that branch of the fisheries, 

 which is the principal means of support of a large part of the local 

 population during the winter season. At Grand Mauaan and vicinity 

 also large quantities of herring are caught by Colonial fishermen for the 

 United States Market and these are largely shipped to the United States 

 in Colonial vessels, and the same statement herein deposed to, as re- 

 gards the benefits accruing to the population at Fortune Bay applies to 

 that at Grand Manaan. 



Although previous to the Washington Treaty fresh fish as herein 

 enumerated were admitted to the United States Markets free of duty, 

 yet their admission was subject to changes in legislation from time to 

 time instead of the Markets being permanently open as at present. 



14th. The United States afford the only markets for mackerel of 

 number one and number two grade all fat herring not consumed in the 

 Dominion 'and of number one Salmon caught by Colonial fishermen. 

 Such descriptions of fish find a market in the United States alone. 



loth In this affidavit the statements which I have made in the pres- 

 ent tense apply to the state of things which has existed for the last 

 seven years except where I have expressed a different meaning. 



M. C.- MORGAN. 



Sworn to before me at Halifax in the County of Halifax in the Prov- 

 ince of Nova Scotia this 16th day of August A D 1877. 



(Seal.) W. D. HARRINGTON. J. P. 



No. 205. 



I Richard Beazley of Halifax in the County of Halifax fisherman 

 being solemnly sworn do make oath and say as follows : 



1st I say that for forty years last past, I have been engaged in the 

 fisheries of Nova Scotia, Labrador, Newfoundland Prince Edward 

 Island, New Brunswick, Gulf of St Lawrence and Baie. des Chaleurs 

 besides the deep sea fisheries as a fisherman and dealer in fish and have 



