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"2. That in the yciir ISO;! 1 t'omiiienced mackerel fisliiiipt in the American vessel ' Messina,' and 

 that duiiuj; tlmt yrrir, ue lislicii in llio Ray Cliiileui'. niid tnok lumie with us COO barrel s of mackerel 

 dnrin;,' tin; fishiiiL; sonson ol' that year, ono-lhird of wliieli <]aan'.ity, I uoiild sny, was caught within 

 three miles ol' tho shore. 



_" 10. That iihout 200 of the American vessels get theiv bait <"i thn Nova Scotian coast, and, in my 

 opinion, without the bait obtained there they couhrnot carry on tho fishins;. 



" 1 1. Then there is also a fleet of forty American vessels whicli fish off Grand Manan. They 

 average 350 barrels of herring per vessel, which are all caught close to the shore." 



Chas. W. Dunn, fisherman, Prince Edward Island :— 



" 1. That T have been engaged in fishing for about twenty-eight years, winter and summer, in both 

 boats and vos.scls, having fished in the cod-tisliing on the hanks for about seven winters. 1 have 

 also iislied mackerel iu this gulf with the Americans, from the summer of 1868 till 1871, and also in 

 the halibut fishery on these coasts. 



" 2. " At Anticosti wo could often see the halibut ou the bottom when we were trawling. This 

 would bo about two or three hundred yards from short'. I have seen 10,000 halibut a day liaught at 

 Anticosti, in water where we could see bottom. Thin halibut iishery is the best paying fishery 

 that 1 have ever been in. 1 have made 90 dollars iu twelve days as one of the hands of the 

 fishery." 



Jas. Honlctto, lislierman, Prince Edward Island : — 



" 1. That I have been engajred in fishing for fifteen years, in vessels belonging to the United States. 

 I have lislied all about Bay Chaleur, from I'ortwootl to Seven Islands, at the Magdalens, all dong 



this island coast, and two years' 

 fishing" 



mackerel fishing on the American shores, and many winters cod- 



John R. McDonald, larmer and fisherman, Piince Edward Island : — 



" 13. Ihai almost all the American fishermen fish close into the shore o/ (lie different provinces of the 

 Dominion, and 1 do not think the Americiins would find it worth while to fit out lor the Gulf fisliing if 

 they coidil not fish near tho shore. The year the cutters were about the Americana did not do very 

 much, dthough they used to dodge the cutters and lish iushure." 



Alphonso Gihiian, fisliorman, Prince Edward Island : — 



" 7. That when the mackerel first came into the bay, they generally came up towards Bay 

 Chaleur, Oaspo, and round there— passing the Alagdalcn Islands on their way. It is up there that 

 the American licet t'cuerally goes lii-st to catch lish." 



Joseph Campbell, Prince Edward Island, master mariner, nine years United Slates' 

 vessels : — 



"2. That from the years IdHS to 1867 1 was constantly and actively engaged in fishing aboard 

 American vessels, and during that time 1 fished on all the fishing grounds. 



" 3. We got our first fare generally in tho Bay Chaleur. Fully nine-tenths of this fare would be 

 caught close inshore, within the tiiree-mile limit." 



Alex. Chiveri(\ nuTcliant, Prince Edward Island, formerly fisherman ; was twenty 

 years in United States' vessels : — 



"We lishod olftlie north part ol' Cipo liretnii, and caught the whole of our fare within three miles 

 from tlio shore 



"7. Tliai in the year 1807 1 was master of a liritish fishing schooner. The first trip of thai 

 season we tishid between the Miraniiclii and Hay Chaleur. lluriug that dip the fish played cliielly 

 inshore, about a mile from the slune. At limes liuriiij:- that trip I would be getting a good catch, wlicu 

 the American vessels, to the nundior ol' lit'ly or sixty, would come along, and by tlrawing oil' the lish, 

 spoil my lishing. During thai trip, the Americans, 1 would say, caught fully three-t'ourth of their fare 

 within the tliree mile limit." 



Niithiiniel Jost, master mariner, Lunenbiirj.;', Nova Scotia : — 



" 2. I have also seen many American mackerel-men engaged iu taking mackerel around the coast 

 of Cape I'rcton. Triuce Kdward islaml, -.nd eastern side of Sew Brunswick, and many of these ti.-jlied 

 inshore. 1 would sny that there were at least 400 American vessels around the before-mentioned coasts 

 taking mackerel. Uuiiug the past, two years I have seen at oue time iu sight, live American vessels 

 engaged iu taking codfish on the Houthern coast of Nova iScotia, and a great many in sailing aiou" • 

 and at Sable Island this Bi)ring I have seen from lifteou to twenty in bight ai one time, engaged in 

 taking codlish." 



Benjamin Wentzlcr, fisherman, Lower La Have, Nova Scotia: — 



1. " 1 have been engaged in the fisheries tor tvt iity-seven years, up to eighteen hundred and seveniv. 



five inclusive, and fished every year in lia- Niaiii Bay, around Cape lireton, I'linee Kduard Island, 



uofitern side of New ilnmswick, and aruuiid liie Magdalens. 1 have taken all the lish found in the waters 



of the above-mentioneil coast. I am al^o vmII ac(iu.iinted with the inshore fisheries in Lunenburg County 



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