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bbls the second trip, caught them all but 30 bbls at Madeline Islands, 

 (both trips), the 30 bbls we caught around the Island of P. E., about 

 half of these 30 bbls. I caught within 3 miles of the shore we got for 

 these mackerel $13 per bbl., and were all mostly No. Is, our shore mack- 

 erel were worth then, I recollect, $20 for ones; in 1874, was in the Gulf 

 of St. Lawrence for mackerel, and caught 2CO bbls. the first trip, and 

 220 bbls on the second trip (sea bbls.), the first trip we caught off P. E. 

 Island, and should judge that we caught half of them within 3 

 miles of the shore the second trip we caught 75 bbls. at Madeline 

 Island, and the rest at P. E. Island, 6 or 8 miles from the shore, (none 

 within 3 miles) ; in 1875, was in the Bay of St. Lawrence, and caught 

 175 bbls, all of which were caught within 3 miles of shore at Madeline 

 Islands, and was all our season's work ; in 1876, was at Georges all the 

 year. All the above years I have been master ofther schr Charles H. Hit- 

 dreth this year, 1877, I have been master of the schr John S. McQuin, 

 and have just returned from the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and oft' our own 

 shore, with 107 barrels of mackerel, 3 barrels of which we caught in the 

 Bay, after being there a week, trying for mackerel, off Cape George, P. 

 E. I., etc., caught 104 of the 107 off the coast of Maine, for which we 

 got $9.50, the 3 barrels caught in the Bay sold for $10 per bbl. In the 

 winter time, I have been accustomed to go to Grand Manan for herring, 

 have been there for last seven winters, with exception of 1873, when I 

 was at Newfoundland for herring, generally making two trips to Grand 

 Manan. I have always bought my herring, paying the cash at from 50 

 to 75 cents per 100 last year, for my two trips, I paid $1,875, for 

 I averaged about $1000 for each cargo. 



All of the herring brought from Grand Manan by the Americans have 

 been bought of the inhabitants, have never known anything to the con- 

 trary in my experience. In my trip to Newfoundland, in 1873, 1 was in 

 the Membrino Chief, we bought 2200 barrels of herring, for which we 

 gave $2200, gold ; never knew of any American vessels to get herring 

 at Newfoundland, except by buying them of the inhabitants, they being 

 always very anxious to sell to you, and the inhabitants depend on this 

 traffic with Americans as the principal means of support, and must be 

 of incalculable advantage to them. 



HENRY G. COAS. 



GLOUCESTER, Oct. 2d, 1877. 



Personally appeared the above named Henry G. Coas, who subscribed, 

 and made oath, that the foregoing statement is true, before me, 

 (Seal). ADDISON CARTER, 



Justice of the Peace, and Special Deputy Collector of Customs. 



No. 247. 



I, Joseph J. Tupper, of Gloucester, Mass., on oath depose and say, that 

 I was born in Liverpool, N. S., am thirty-seven years of age, have been 

 fishing over twenty years, am now master of schooner Madaicaska Maid, 

 of Gloucester, and have been master of said vessel for the past nine 

 years ; have been in the Gulf of St. Lawrence mackereling, with excep- 

 tion of the past three years, every season. The past three years have 

 been engaged in fishing on the American shore, seining for mackerel 

 during the summers, and in the past seven winters have been to New 

 Brunswick for herring. I have now just returned from the Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence on a mackerel voyage, sailing from Gloucester about the 8th 

 of August, and seined 30 barrels of pogie slivers for bait, on the coast 

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