1442 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Xo. 308. 



I, JOHN MclNTYRB, of Fairfield, Township No. 47, in King's County, 

 Prince Edward Island, master mariner, make oath and say: 



1. That I have had experience in the mackerel-fishing for the last 

 thirty-five years, and also in the cod-fishing, in both boats and schooners, 

 in both island and American schooners, having fished all round the 

 gulf fishing grounds, and also on the United States coasts, and I know 

 the fishing grounds well. 



2. That from East Point to Black Bush there are about one hundred 

 boats, besides dories, engaged in fishing, that is in a distance of fifteen 

 miles. The number is increasing fast. The number has doubled in the 

 last year, and are still increasing; there are not yet enough boats for 

 the crews. 



3. The reason T give for the increase in the boat-fishing is, that fish- 

 ing pays better than anything else, and it affords employment to people 

 who can get no other employment. It is a ready-money business, and 

 puts a lot of money into circulation. 



4. That these boats take, on an average, crews of three men to a boat. 

 The boats along here are small, as we have to beach the boats. 



5. That the boats get as many herring on this shore as are required 

 for bait through the season, and also for home use. They do not try for 

 more than that. They might take quantities to export, if attention 

 were given to the business. There are any quantities of them along the 

 shore. These boats for the whole season, taking one season with 

 another, take, on an average, one hundred quintals of codfish and hake 

 to a boat; some years more and some years less. They also average 

 fifty barrels of mackerel in the season to each boat. The herring are 

 taken right inshore, within a couple of hundred yards of the shore ; in 

 the summer season they are taken as far as a mile and a half from the 

 shore. The codfish are all taken at from half a mile to three miles from 

 shore. All the mackerel here are taken inshore, within a mile of land. 



6. That I was fishing round this island shores in the island schooners 

 ^Eneas Mclntyre and in the Emerald. In the former of these I fished 

 two years, and was master of her. We packed out the first year three 

 hundred barrels of mackerel we were only out six weeks that season. 

 The second year we were also out six weeks, and got two hundred 

 barrels. She was a schooner of sixty-two tons burden, and carried 

 fourteen hands. In the Emerald we were out not more than five or six 

 weeks, and we got about two hundred and sixty barrels of mackerel. 

 These fish were all caught inshore, none of them more than three miles 

 off. 



7. That I fished for seven or eight seasons in American vessels, 

 among which were the Isabella, Robert D. Rhodes, the P. H. Corliss, 

 the Horatio Babson, Albert Clarence, B. S. Young, the Lucinda, and 

 the Native. 



8. That I was on board the Isabella the same year that I was in the 

 Emerald, for ten days, and in that time we took two hundred and sixty 

 barrels of mackerel. She carried thirteen men. 



9. That I was in the Robert D. Rhodes for three weeks, and in that 

 time we took two hundred and seventy barrels of mackerel. She was 

 about sixty tons burden and carried thirteen hands. 



10. That I was three weeks in the P. H. Corless, during which time 

 we took two hundred and sixty barrels of mackerel. She was about 

 fifty tons burden and carried twelve hands. She fished round this 

 island, between here and North Cape. 



