3282 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



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 Market by the Treaty of Washington 

 to such exportation has been a very great benefit to the people of the 

 British Provinces, 



12th For several years past the inshore fisheries of the BritishJProv- 

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

 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, Another is the fact that 

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

 several 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 coast of the United States! would jbe as 

 valuable to Colonial fishermen as to the United States fishermen^if the 

 Colonial fishermen chose to avail themselves of the concessions 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 present 

 tense apply to the state of things which has existed for the past six 

 years except where I have expressed a different meaning. 



WILLIAM HAYES 



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

 ince of Nova Scotia this 13th day of June A D 1877 



WM McKERRON 



(Seal.) Notary Public 



No. 208. 



The Examination of Captain William A. Molloy of Great St. Laicrence 

 'Neicfoundland taken before George Henry Emerson Attorney at Law. 

 Examiner 



The said witness being sworn saith I am a native of Newfoundland 

 and am 27 years of age. I have been engaged in the Fishery-business 

 all my life. There is very little inshore-fishing done by American Fish- 

 erman within three miles of the Coast of Newfoundland except bait- 

 taking. There is no mackerel-fishing done on the Coast of Newfound- 

 land by either American or British fisherman. There is no boat-fishing 

 done on the inshore by American fisherman I was eight years fishing 

 out of Gloucester six years of which I was Master I am therefore per- 

 fectly acquainted with the American fishing in the Maratirae Provinces. 

 I have never known the American Fisherman avail themselves of the 

 privilege of landing to dry nets, cure fish or use the shore for any other 

 purpose in this Colony except for obtaining Water The fisherman of 

 Newfoundland benefit very materially by intercourse with American 

 fisherman both by traffic in bait, ice and fishing-stores and the selling 

 by American-fisherman within the Colony, of their small fish and oil. 

 I think that the importance of the intercourse of American fisherman 

 with British fisherman cannot at present be estimated. Every Ameri- 

 can Fishing vessel that comes to Newfoundland cannot get out under 

 an outlay of from sixty to seventy dollars for bait and ice. The British 

 fisheries for the past few years have been less productive and remunera- 

 tive to those engaged in them, than formerly. Thejshore ^fisheries oil 



