3278 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



fishermen. lu addition to bait the United States fishermen purchase 

 from the people of the British Provinces large quantities of ice, salt, 

 barrels, provisions, clothing, nets, twines, and other articles used in the 

 prosecution of the fisheries. The trade with the United States fisher- 

 men for such articles is of great benefit to the people of the British 

 Provinces and is the principal trade of some of the ports of Nova Sco- 

 tia. Large quantities of fresh fish are also purchased by Americans in 

 some parts of the British Provinces for shipment to the United States 

 and such shipments are mostly made in Colonial vessels. 



9th Of late years the drying and curing offish by the United States 

 fishermen is principally done on the decks of their vessels and they sel- 

 dom land to dry nets or to cure fish or to repack them or to transship 

 cargoes. 



10th The Treaty of Washington so far as the privileges of the fisheries 

 are concerned is I verily believe as beneficial to the people of the British 

 Provinces as to the people of the United State?, both will be equally 

 benefitted by its provisions being carried out. 



llth For all number one and number two mackerel, for all fat her- 

 ring not consumed at home and for all number one salmon from the 

 British Provinces the United States afford the only market and the 

 duties paid on the exportation of such fish from the British Provinces 

 before the Treaty of Washington amounted to a very large sum of 

 money annually and the opening of the United States markets by said 

 Treaty to such exportations has been a very great benefit to the people 

 of the British Provinces. 



12th For several years past the inshore fisheries of the British Prov- 

 inces have not been so much resorted to by United States fishermen as 

 they were formerly and they are being less and less resorted to every 

 year by such fishermen, one reason for this fact is the change in the 

 modes of fishing pursued by such fishermen and another is the fact that 

 the mackerel fishery on the coasts of the British Provinces has for sev- 

 eral years past been declining while it has been improving during the 

 same period on the coasts of the United States. 



13th The fisheries on the coasts of the United States would be very 

 nearly as valuable to Colonial fishermen as to the United States fisher- 

 men if the former chose to avail themselves of the concession of the 

 Washington Treaty in that particular, and latterly they are beginning 

 to avail themselves of that fishery which is annually becoming more 

 valuable. 



14th 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 past six 

 years except where I have expressed a different meaning. 



EICHARD BEAZLEY 



Sworn to before me at Halifax in the County of Halifax this Thirteenth 

 day of June A D 1877 



(Seal.) WM McKERRON 



Notary Public 



No. 206. 



I John Glazebrook of Halifax in the County of Halifax in the Prov- 

 ince of Nova Scotia Fisherman being solemnly sworn do make oath and 

 say as follows : 



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

 the fisheries of British North America and have been for that time inti- 

 mately acquainted with the condition of the said fisheries and the man- 



