AWARD OP THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 1011 



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bought in Canso, from your people down there, bnt they are brought 

 there from our shores. I always carried bait for the first' trip with im*. 



Q. What was your average catch each year from 18.74 down to 

 1869 ? A. I should think about 600 barrels. 



Q. Would that be a fair average catch for each vessel in the fleet f 

 A. That would be more than an average, a good deal. 



Q. You were more lucky than they f A. I think I was. 



Q. What was the size of your vessel ? A. 1 had vessel* of differ? nt 

 sizes; I was in several different vessels during that time. 



Q. What is the ordinary size? A. About 100 tons. 



Q. And during that time you got 600 barrels per season? A. Yea. 



Q. And other vessels got far less ? A. I don't know. ISome did U-tr 

 ter than I did. 



Q. What do you place the average at ? A. I don't know that I could 

 give an average for the whole fleet. 



Q. Have you any reason to believe that the majority did far worse 

 than you ? A. I know our vessels did which went from the place 1 

 live. 



Q. Where do you live? A. At Newburyi>ort. 



Q. How many vessels went from that port ? A. Twenty five nil 

 then. 



Q. They all went into the gulf? A. Yes. I used to get more than 

 they did; and judging from what they caught, I got a good deal more 

 than the average. That is all I have got to go by. 



Q. You don't know in regard to the other vessels? A. No. 



Q. Did you ever go to fish in Bay Chalenrs? A. I never fished but 

 one season in Bay Chaleurs in my life, and that was the season of the 

 licenses. 



Q. That would be 186S ? A. I caught 200 barrels outside of Cam- 

 quette Bank. That was the only time I fished in Bay Chaleurx. 



Q. You never went in before ? A. I have been there to harbor but 

 not to fish. 



Q. Where do you take the fish ? A. Outside of Caraquette Bunk, 

 four miles from the land. 



Q. Inside of Point Miscou ? A. Yes. 



Q. How far inside? A. About 15 miles, I should think. 



Q. About 4 miles from land ? A. Yea. 



Q. How did you judge the distance that time? A. I judged ty the 

 lay of the land. 



Q. At what time did you fish 4 miles from the shore ?- 

 a patent log and sometimes we ran out ami measured the dUtanoe * 

 that we could tell the number of miles. That was when the r 

 were around. 



Q. Why were you afraid of the cutters when you were f 

 license? A. I am speaking of the time when there were cutti 



Q. Why did you not go nearer the shore when you had a li 

 A. Because we could not catch as many fish there. 



Q. Why did you not try ? A. It would have been no u 

 gone inside the Bank. We caught them outside where the II 



Q. Did you ever try inside ? A. I never hauled to inside of t 

 bnt if fish had been there vessels would have been inside. 



Q, Did you ever go close to the shore to see how much 

 ing was than the outside fishing ? A. 1 don't think I ever 



Q. As a rule, you always caught your tish three or fou 

 A. Without I saw somebody catchiug fish inside. 



