AWARD OP THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 3289 



No. 216. 



Tlie Examination of Patrick Walsh of St. John's Neicfoundland taken 

 before me George Henry Emerson jr Examiner 



This witness being sworn saith 



I am forty three years of age and have been engaged in the Fishery 

 since I was fourteen years old. I am Master of a Newfoundland Steam 

 Bait Skiff, a vessel belonging to the" Honorable Ambrose Shea of St 

 John's Newfoundland, and used by him for procuring bait for the Fish- 

 ermen of Newfoundland. 



I never knew the American fishermen use the inshore shore fishery 

 for Cod or other fishing. We have no mackerel on the Coast of this 

 Island. The American fisherman frequent our Harbors for the purpose 

 of procuring bait to prosecute the fishery on the Banks of Newfoundland. 

 They purchase always and do not catch it themselves. The fishermen 

 of Newfoundland benefit by this traffic with the American fishermen in 

 bait and ice. The Newfoundland fishermen can procure plenty of bait 

 when it is impossible to catch fish, which bait the Americans purchase 

 from him at the rate of 40 to 50 cents per hundred. This is of inestima- 

 ble value to Newfoundlanders as the inshore fishery on this Coast for 

 the past ten years has been very unproductive while there has been a 

 great quantity of bait, which if it were not for the purchase by the 

 American fishermen would be perfectly useless to any one. 



his 



PATRICK x WALSH. 

 mark. 



Taken before me at Saint Johns Newfoundland this 4th day of June 

 A D 1877 



QEO. H. Y EMERSON JR 



No. 217. 



Examination of Captain James Brown of Boston, Mass : at present of 

 Saint John's taken before me George Henry Emerson, Examiner. 



This witness being sworn saith : 



I am thirty two years of age and have been engaged in the Bank 

 fishery on the Coast of Newfoundland for the past fifteen years. The 

 American fisherman do not use the inshore fisheries within three miles 

 of the Coast of Newfoundland for either Cod or other fishing, except 

 for taking bait. American fishermen always buy their bait on the coast 

 of Newfoundland from the Newfoundland fishermen. The is no mack- 

 erel fishing on the Coast of Newfoundland. There is no boat-fishing 

 by the Americans on the Coast of Newfoundland. I have never known 

 American fishermen land on the Coast of Newfoundland to dry nets, 

 cure fish or for any other purpose. There is no necessity of American 

 Fishermen landing in Newfoundland except for the purpose of purchasing 

 bait, Ice, and fishing stores. American fishermen always purchase bait. 

 They never catch their own bait. The Americans never come prepared^ 

 and find it cheaper to purchase bait, than to bring nets and gear from 

 the States, to catch it with, An American fishing vessel would want 

 about fifty barrels of Herring for bait, or about twenty thousand squids. 

 Herring average about forty dollars for fifty barrels of Herring, and 

 about forty cents per Hundred for squids I think that the traffic 

 between the American fisherman and the Newfoundland fisherman is of 



