Title: First report of the Committee on the state of the fisheries in the gulf of St. Lawrence and on the Labrador Coast
Abstract: To ascertain whether any and what encouragement were granted in the Lower Provinces, to the Fisheries carried on by inhabitants thereof, Your Committee, at the outset of their inquiries, caused circulars to be addressed to certain of the autho- rities in those Provinces from whom they deemed it probable that information on this head to be relied upon, might be obtained.The answers received have been, with one exception, full and satisfactory, some of them containing much