3292 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



sels purchase bait on the Coast of Newfoundland herring is the bait 

 principally used, ray vessels bring some bait from the United States 

 but when they are out of it they call at the various bays of Newfound- 

 laud and purchase it there, No objection has ever been made to pur- 

 chasing bait and supples on the Newfoundland coast, the inhabitants 

 are glad enough to sell it to us as it is a very profitable trade for them 

 The Newfoundland traders in bait and ice advertise in the Gloucester 

 newspapers and send circulars to the various fishing firms asking their 

 custom Bait is also purchased at the French Islands from the New- 

 foundland jacks which come there to sell the herring bait to the French 

 and American fishing vessels I consider the herring fishery of New- 

 foundland of no value to Americans, they never catch but only purchase 

 the fish and pay the full value for them American vessels never fi^h 

 for cod or any other fish within three miles of the Coast of Newfound- 

 laud. 



JOHN G. DENNIS 



COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS 



ESSEX ss GLOUCESTER July 28th 1877 



Then personally appeared the above named John G. Dennis and 1 

 made oath that all the foregoing statements by him subscribed were 

 true to the best of his knowledge and belief 



before me 

 (Seal.) DAVID W. LOW 



Notary Public 



No. 221. 



I Andrew Leighton of Gloucester in the county of Essex and Com- 

 monwealth of Massachusetts being duly sworn do depose and say that 

 I am fifty-four years old, and have been engaged in the fishing business 

 both as fishermen and dealer for over thirty years, I have been en- 

 gaged in the Newfoundland herring trade for eighteen years, during the 

 winter principally at Fortune Bay, The Method of doing business is to 

 send vessels from here to purchase cargoes of frozen herring from the 

 fishermen on that coast, which are then carried to the United States 

 and there sold. I have never caught any herring on the coast of New- 

 foundland and I have never known of any American vessel doing so. 

 as it is much cheaper to buy them from the inhabitants who catch them 

 in small boats, than to catch them ourselves No objection has ever 

 been made by the Government of Newfoundland to our purchasing her- 

 ring there to my knowledge, the inhabitants are glad eneough to sell 

 to us as they depend for their living entirely during the winter upon 

 the trade with the American vessels 



ANDBEW LEIGHTON 



COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



ESSEX ss. GLOUCESTER July 1877 



Then personally appeared the abovenamed Andrew Leighton and 



made oath that all the foregoing statements by him subscribed are true 



to the best of his knowledge and belief, before me 



(Seal.) DAVID W. LOW 



Notary Public 



