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are all taken from the coasts of the United States and generally inshore, 

 and the procuring of such bait in this way is a great benefit to the Colo- 

 nial fishermen. 



4th Of the fisheries pursued by United States fishermen off the Atlan- 

 tic coast of British North America much the larger proportion consists 

 of the deep sea fisheries outside the three mile limit. I believe that at 

 least three fourths if not five sixths of the fish taken by United States 

 fishermen off the said coast last mentioned are taken outside the three 

 mile limit, 



5th The United States fishermen pursue the inshore fisheries chiefly 

 for mackeral and of the mackeral taken by such fishermen on the Coasts 

 of British North America about one fourth is taken inside and about 

 three fourths outside the three mile limit, taking the average of seasons. 

 The United States fishermen do not fish in boats when in British North 

 American waters but in vessels, the Colonial fishermen fish principally 

 in boats, The United States fishermen procure the mackeral which 

 they catch inshore principally around the shores of the Magdalen Isl- 

 ands, around the shores of Prince Edward Island, the East coast of New 

 Brunswick and the North coasts of Cape Breton. 



6th Colonial fishermen are not injured in the prosecution of the fish- 

 eries but benefitted by the United States fishermen being allowed to fish 

 within the inshore limits, the facility thus given for the purchase of bait 

 is a great advantage to Colonial fishermen and in consequence of the 

 large quantities of bait thrown from a fleet of United States fishing ves- 

 sels the Colonial fishermen fishing in the vicinity of such a fleet are en- 

 abled to take much larger quantities of fish than they could if fishing 

 alone, 



7th The cost of fishing vessels and of the outfits for the same in the 

 British Provinces is at least twenty five per cent lower than the cost 

 thereof in the United States and as a consequence of this difference in 

 prices a large number of United States fishing vessels procure their out- 

 fits in the British North American Provinces 



8th The United States fishermen procure the bait which they use for 

 the deep sea codfishery which bait consists of herring by purchasing the 

 the same from Colonial fishermen, they purchase herring for such pur- 

 pose in large quantities and in fact obtain all or nearly all they need in 

 that way from Colonial fishermen and in addition to their purchases of 

 bait the United States fishermen purchase from traders along the coasts 

 of the British Provinces large quantities of ice, salt, barrels, provisions, 

 nets, twines, clothing and all other articles used in the prosecution of 

 the fisheries. The trade with the United States fishermen 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 Scotia, Large quan- 

 tities 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 of fish by 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 trans-ship 

 cargoes, 



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

 aie concerned is, I verily believe as beneficial to the people of the Brit- 

 ish Provinces as to the people of the United States, both will be equally 

 beuefitted by such privileges being given. 



llth For all number one and number two mackeral for all fat herring 

 not consumed at home and for all number one Salmon from the British 

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