1440 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



boat-fishing altogether; it does not hurt the schooners much, as they 

 can run somewhere else for another school. 



15. That the right of transshipment is a very valuable privilege to 

 the Americans, as they can refit here as cheap or cheaper than they can 

 at home, and they save on an average at least two weeks the trip by 

 not having to run home, which would amount to another trip during 

 the season. They also gain a great deal by being enabled to get their 

 fish down quick to market, and being thereby able to watch and take 

 advantage of good prices. When there is a large quantity of mackerel 

 on board, the barrels get knocked about and get damaged so as to lose 

 the pickle, and then the fish get rusted and spoiled so that they lose 

 their quality and are sometimes entirely destroyed. The right of trans- 

 shipment prevents this, as the fish can be taken out of the holds of the 

 vessels and shipped away without getting damaged. 



ANGUS B. MCDONALD. 



Sworn to at Souris, in King's County, in Prince Edward Island, this 

 24th day of July, A. D. 1877, before me, the words opposite my initials 

 having been first interlined. 



JAMES K. MACLEAN, 



Justice of the Peace for King's County. 

 No. 307. 



I, PETER MCDONALD, of Souris, in King's County, in Prince Edward 

 Island, master mariner, make oath and say : 



1. That I have been four seasons fishing in British vessels, and four 

 seasons in American schooners; always mackerel-fishing. 



2. That I fished in tlie Mary Ellen, of this port, for part of one sea- 

 son, or about four weeks. We got about one hundred and eighty bar- 

 rels of mackerel. She carried sixteen or seventeen hands. 



3. That 1 fished about eight weeks one season in the Comns, of this 

 port, and we got two hundred barrels of mackerel. She was about fifty 

 tons burden, and carried fifteen hands. 



4. That I fished in the Dominion, and was master of her one season, 

 until August the 24th. We had then landed two hundred barrels of 

 mackerel. She was sixty-nine tons burden and carried sixteen hands. 



5. That I fished in the Florence Silver, of Charlottetown, the rest of 

 the season that I was out in the Dominion. We got over two hundred 

 barrels while I was in her. She was sixty tons. 



G. That the first American vessel I fished in was the Abbie M. Heath. 

 I fished about half the season in her. We got three hundred and twenty 

 barrels of mackerel in her in that time. She was about sixty tons anil 

 carried sixteen hands. 



7. That the next American schooner I fished in was the Oriental, a 

 schooner of about fifty-five tons and carrying fourteen hands. We were 

 out from September till the end of October in her iu the same year that 

 I was in the Abbie M. Heath, and in her iu that time we caught three 

 hundred and fifty barrels of mackerel. 



8. That 1 sailed two seasons iu the John Smith, and the first summer 

 we got six hundred and fifty barrels, and the next season we got four 

 hundred and fifty. We only made one trip the second season, and two 

 the tirst, taking our fish home ourselves. She was about sixtv tons and 

 carried fifteen hands. 



9. That I was out in 1871 in the Cadet, an American schooner, and 

 got six hundred and fifty barrels. That was the year the cutters were 

 round. Part of the time I was master of this schooner. We trans- 

 shipped at Causo, and were iu that way enabled to make three trips. 



