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Americans " take as much as the Britisli fishermen on the mainlami froiii Point Lepreaux, 

 inchiding West Isles, Campobello and Grand Manan." 



Page 347. Hon. Wm. Ross, Collector of Customs at Halifax, foriucrly a resident of 

 Cape Breton, and a member of I'lo Privy Council of Canada, gives evidence as followu: 

 " Tin '.merican fishermen fisli for mackerel on the Atlantic coast of Cape Breton, from 

 Cape North to Scatterie. in Ans;ust, September, and October, fishing inshore and otfshore, 

 but more insliorc llian olfsliore." 



Page 374. JNlr. Jolni McDonald, of East Point, Prince Edward Island, says, in his 

 evidence, that he ''has fislied in American vessels about Cape Breton, Prince Edward 

 Island, on west a!ior(?. Bay of Chalcurs, and Gaspe, within three-mile limit." 



Similar «'vidence is ^iven by — • 



Page r)r)S. Jolni Dillon, Sti'ep Creek, Gut Canso. 



Paije 3f)l. Marshall Paqiiet, Smiris, Prince Edward Island. 



Page ^OH. Barnaby Mclsaae, Hast Poii.i, i'^inee Edward Island. 



Page 3«4, John D. McDonald. Souris, Prince Edward Island. 



Pagp '688. Peter S. Ricliardson. Chest^'r, New Brunswi-'k. 



Page 3!>!). Mr. Holland C. Payson, Fishery Overseer at West port, Nova Scotia, says 

 in his evidence that St. Marx's Bay, the coast around Dii>by Neck, with Briar Island 

 and l.ona: Island, are vain • fishins;' £;rounds. The two islands in I«7() exported about 

 200,000 dollars' worth of li i. Tiiis district is frequented by small American schooners, 

 V. iio fish for cod, halibut, pollock, and herring. 



Mr. Pavson's evidence is corroborated by that of Mr. B. H. Ruggles, of Briar 

 Island, Diiibv, Nova Scotia. 



Page 4t)7. Mr. .lohn C. Cunningham, of Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia, says in 

 hi? evidence, that Ui.ited States' lisliermen take halibut oil' Slielburne County, within three 

 mil'.'s of the shore — say one and a-half to two miles. A full fare is about 800 quintals; 

 take two fares in three months. 



These witnesses were examined orally, and nearly all, if not all, ably cross- 

 examined. 



The following arc from the Britisli affidavits, also to show the extent of coast used 

 by United States' fishermen: — 



J. E. Marshall, fisherman, a native of Maine, was ten years master United States' 

 fisliing vessel. 



" 1. Tho fisliing by American schoonprs was very extensivo fiMni 1852 to 1870. During that 

 period tho iiumlior of American vossols wliioh liavc vi-^iteil tho sliorcsi of tlw Gulf of St Lawrence, 

 for fishinc; purposes, yoailv. atnoantml fmin .'500 to 50i) sails. This 1 liavo seou with my own eyes. 

 All these wore mackerel tishintr. The places where tlm Anierieaus (islied most during that period 

 were on the shores of Cape lireton, Prinee Edward Island, New Kninswiok, and on the shores of Bay 

 of Chaltur, from I'ort Diiuiel to D.dhoiHie. and "cuA. from I'ort Daniel to l>onaventiiro IftlanJ, in 

 Gaspe Bay, and on tlio south shore of (iaspe, from Cape Kozier to Matane, and on the i'ovlIi shore 

 from Moisie to Oadbout liiver. I have lished myself nearly every year in these places, aud I never 

 missed my voyage." 



James A. Nickerson. master mariner. Nova Scotia : — 



" 4. My best oatches were taken ofl' tlie novth coast of Cape Breton, from Shiltegan to TTanley Tslnnd, 

 Port TIoo.l, and I never caught any of ♦he lish to siieaic of lieyond three iiiiUs froni the sh )re. I ara 

 certain, and positively swt'ar tiiat fully nine-fenlhs. and I believe more tlian that pioportion of my 

 entire catch was taken within three mih'.s of the shore, the nearer to the shore I could get the better 

 it would be for cat'hin,' tish. One reason of that is that the mackerel keep close in shore to got the 

 fishes they feed on, aud these little lislies keep in tlui eddies of the tide quite close to the shore. 



" '.'. 'J'hcsi' American lisheriuen gel their catches in the ••.aiue place we ilid. They took the fish 

 close into the shore, that is by far the larger juoportion of them, and the opinion among the American 

 ilsheiiiieii was universal, lliat if they were exeluded from fishing within the.se throe miles off the shore, 

 they might as well at once abandon the fishery." 



John L. Ingraham, Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, fish merchant: — 



" I have seen at one time 200 American lisliing vessels in this harbour. In the summer of 1876, 

 I have seen as many as thirty at one time. 



" 3. These vessels fish often within one-half mile of the coiul, north and cast of Cape Hreton, aud 

 all around. 



"21. American fishermen come around the southern and eusteru coaat of Capo Breton, by dozens 

 'hrough the Canal and Bros d'Or Lake, and wherever it suits them," 



Daniel MePliee, fisherman. Prince Edward Island : — 



" 1. That I li.ive [lersoiuilly been engaged in the mackerel and cod-fishing in the (rulf of St. 

 Li\wrence since the year 1863. 



