AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. .'J447 



No. 6. 



By George Eose, of Jersey Harbor. I uow reside at Jersey Harbor, 

 Fortune Bay. in June, 1876, Captain Allen, of United States schooner 

 Bonanza, arrived at Little Bay (Bay de Lean), where I then resided, 

 and told me he wanted to haul about 1,400 barrels herring in Fortune 

 Bay ; that he had a herring seine and skirt' on board of his vessel, and 

 everything else necessary for hauling, and asked me to go with him as 

 master of his seine, aud that he would give me twenty cents per barrel 

 for every barrel of herring that was hauled. I agreed, and my son John 

 aud I went on board at once. We left and sailed for Long Harbor, but 

 did not haul any herring there ; from thence we sailed for head of For- 

 tune Bay, where we hauled about 400 barrels, which were salted on 

 board the vessel. The seine, skiff, aud crew belonged to the vessel, 

 and, as I have said, I was simply engaged as master of the seine. 

 The men employed hauling the herring all belonged to the said vessel. 

 After the 400 barrels herring were salted on board we returned to Long 

 Harbor in her. We (i. 0., the crew of vessel and myself helping them) 

 tried to haul herring there, but did not succeed. I left the vessel there 

 and returned home. Captain Allen, the master of said vessel, paid me 

 for my services the sum of eighty dollars ; my son received nothing. I 

 heard afterwards that he got at Long Harbor after I left about 1,000 

 barrels, but cannot tell if he hauled them all or if he hauled any. He 

 told me he intended putting up the herring at Gloucester and reship- 

 ping them for Sweden. 



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GEORGE + ROSE. 

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Taken trtid sworn before me at Jersey Harbor the 17th October, 1877. 



PHILIP HOBERT, /. P. 



No. 7. 

 NEWFOUNDLAND, 



Saint John's, to wit: 



Maurice Bonia, of Placentia, aged 58 years, fisherman, maketh oath 

 and saith : I have been connected with the fisheries of Newfoundland 

 for forty years. I know that United States vessels are accustomed to 

 be baited at Fortune Bay with seines they bring themselves, and which 

 they work with the aid of local fishermen. Last June I went pilot with 

 Capt. Lauchlin McLeod, of the schooner P. L. Whitman, hailing from 

 Gloucester, United States of America, from Placentia to Piper's Hole, 

 in Placeutia Bay, to haul herrings for bait, for which purpose I used my 

 own seine, aud, with the aid of his crew and myself and my seine, he 

 procured his bait. For my services as pilot and for hire of seine and 

 assistance in working it, Captain McLeod paid me twelve dollars. 



I am fully sensible that the American fishermen in our waters, using 

 the privileges conferred by the Washington Treaty, are greatly injur- 

 ing our people by their operations, and that absolutely no benefits re- 

 sult from their visits. 



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MAURICE + BON 7 1 A. 

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Sworn before me, at St. John's aforesaid, this lth day of October, A. 



H. RENOUF, 

 J. P. for Keicfovndlancl. 



