Besides this fishery, called sedentaire , a nomade and sedentaire fish- 

 ery was exercised in the bays of the west coast for which permanent occu- 

 pation by a concessionary boat was not required. It sufficed in this case to 

 affirm its privilege by anchoring there only once during the season. The 

 boats which used this option generally practiced double outfitting , a part of 

 their crew remaining on land to prepare the fish caught on the bank. 



Finally, when there remained vacant places on the east coast, they could 

 be distributed to bank vessels, which worked all season on the banks, and re- 

 turned at the end of it to dry their catch on the shore. 



Besides, six bays on the west coast were open to all the vessels holding 

 concessions on this coast, as well as to vessels called defileurs du gulfe 

 which practiced generally a double outfitting, and contented themselves in 

 common usage of drying stations. 



lie Rouge, off the peninsula of Port-a-Port, was the object of aseperate 

 drawing without distribution of beaches, between the outfitters who desired to 

 obtain a concession there. 



Soon the Saint- Pierre outfitters obtained exclusive disposition of the Bay 

 of Saint-George, of three places on lie Rouge, and of four places at Cod-Roy. 



Departures from French ports were authorized from March 1 for the west 

 coast and the bank and from April 20 for the east coast, any departures after 

 July 1 not being permitted. 



During the long interruptions to which the French fishery had been sub- 

 jected, numerous English colonists had established themselves on the French 

 Shore. On protest of the French government, the British government, intend- 

 ing to prove entire good faith in the execution of the treaties, prescribed most 

 rigorous measures to make the islanders move back, without delay, to a 

 depth of six miles from the shores, all the establishments which they hadbuilt 

 within these limits being conceded to France, and that access to this zone 

 would equally be forbidden to all English boats, in order that no impediment 

 could be made to the exploitation of the fishery by the French to which the of- 

 ficers and magistrates of the colony were required to give entire assistance 

 in case of legitimate dispute. 



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