. Award of the fishery commission [microform] : documents and proceedings of the Halifax Commission, 1877 under the Treaty of Washington of May 8, 1871. Fisheries; Fisheries; Pêches; Pêches. AWARD OP TlIK KISIIEKY C0MMIH8I0N. 3339 \ttfi. -J", IHTT. /<<â¢Â»â (â «, of (Hon- Kittory, MaiiH-, rit'H ;ir» \«'tUH. I iimrkt'irliiiK trip. y, 1H7T. I siiilt'd 'of Ht. 10 aii{){) 00 100 00 131 ;) 2(»0 00 25 00 !if'j,;5rjO ;) $2,100 00 I $250 2") and 4codflshinj;. io liay is 8i,"''"' '^ taken there weiv tiirow overboiiitl use as throw-bait. ny bein
. Award of the fishery commission [microform] : documents and proceedings of the Halifax Commission, 1877 under the Treaty of Washington of May 8, 1871. Fisheries; Fisheries; Pêches; Pêches. AWARD OP TlIK KISIIEKY C0MMIH8I0N. 3339 \ttfi. -J", IHTT. /<<â¢Â»â (â «, of (Hon- Kittory, MaiiH-, rit'H ;ir» \«'tUH. I iimrkt'irliiiK trip. y, 1H7T. I siiilt'd 'of Ht. 10 aii{){) 00 100 00 131 ;) 2(»0 00 25 00 !if'j,;5rjO ;) $2,100 00 I $250 2") and 4codflshinj;. io liay is 8i,"''"' '^ taken there weiv tiirow overboiiitl use as throw-bait. ny being i)ois()nt'el lernien eoniplaiii. win}? all their olV:il nen, American auil i) trips since. I never caught a herring there, l>ut in- variably bought them, and paid the inhabitiints for them. Wiieii I lirst went then! I paid one dollar per bbl.; they are now worth from i««»0 to .*2. Tlii^ AJuerican trade in herring has kept the peoph-from starvation, and ritised whole (;ommunities from poverty to comparativtt aflliiiMioe. I liiive km)wn i5,000 to be paid for herring in I'ortiine Pay alone, by the American Meet, in onSt. liawrence the past 20 years is not over'J.'»t» vessels, taking oim y(nir with another. Out of the lleet this yj-ai tlieio IS not over a dozen that have taken iis many mai^kc^el as I have, ami a hu'ge proporthm of the lleet are leaving the Pay entirely discourageil. The Wm. S. linker has arrived in (Jloucester, within two hours, from the Hay of St. Lawrenee with only live barrels of nniekerel. I have be««n master ot tlu' schooners Suhkh /â !. llnni'x, llattiv Lrtds, 1(1(1 May, Two Forty, I'lirron b\ Ihdt', AVtv*; M, Jj«U'is. .TKSSK LKWIS OF .MASSAC'HL'SKTTS. COI'NTV OF ES.^KX, S'S. (, Aug. 27, 1S77. Then personally appean'cl the above mimed .lesse licwis, and made oiitli, that all the above statements by him subsciibed, are true to ihe best of his knowledge ami belief, before me. DAVID \V
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