1914 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



taken ten miles out from the shore? A. I should think that three- 

 quarters of what we caught were taken ten miles from land. 



Q. You mean off the coast of Maine and Massachusetts? A. Yes; 

 and all along the coast. 



Q. Where did you get the other quarter! A. We might get them 

 inside of that ; but the men who fish outside and stay there get the most 

 fish, I can tell you. 



Q. The men who fish outside on the American coast get the most 

 fish ? A. Yes. Those who stop right near the land do not get so many. 



Q. The American inshore fisheries, according to your statement, are" 

 just a little worse than the British inshore fisheries, while your off-shore 

 fisheries are better than the British off-shore fisheries ? A. I guess they 

 are better now. 



Q. This has been the case for the last two years? A. Yours are good 

 for nothing now. They are not worth sending a vessel down to them. 



Q. You allude to our shore fisheries? A. 1 mean the fisheries in the 

 bay. 



Q. Out in the bay the fisheries are good for nothing? A. The fishery 

 in the bay is good for nothing. 



Q. Your off-shore fishery is first-rate now ? A. I believe that this 

 year is exceptional on account of the bait. 



Q. But take the last six or seven years ? A. Taking the last eight 

 years into consideration, it has been good enough. There have been 

 plenty offish and we have done well there. 



Q. And you do not know anything about the off-shore fisheries in the 

 gulf during these years ? A. We had vessels go there from Newbury- 

 port every year, but the results were so unsatisfactory they lost so 

 much money, that lately only three were sent there. 



Q. Was this in consequence of their keeping out in the bay? A. 

 These vessels were fitted out for the bay because they did not under- 

 stand seining. Vessels were fitted out for the bay, until results were so 

 poor that they were taken off these grounds. 



Q. Did you understand that they fished inshore? A. I do not know 

 where they fished. They fished anywhere. They stated that during 

 the last two years they could not catch fish there except inshore; but I 

 hardly believed it until I came down this year. The fish have been 

 nearer the shore this year than they used to be. 



Q. You say that the off-shore fisheries on the American coast are first- 

 rate, while in the gulf the off-shore fisheries are good for nothing? A. 

 Yes, now, during this present season. 



Q. And the inshore fisheries of the gulf are better than the American 

 inshore fisheries? A. Yes; along the coast more fish are caught with 

 hooks there than on the American coast. 



Q. During the last eight years, when you have been making $8,000 a 

 year, have you fished in your own schooners ! A. I owned part of them. 



Q. Have you fished in the same vessel during the whole eight years! 

 A. No; I have been during the last eight years in the S. C. Noyes 

 and in my present vessel. 



Q. Are you the owner of her? A. I am part owner of her, and also of 

 the S. C. Noyes. 



Q. What is the name of your present vessel? A. The Miantonoma. 

 It is an Indian name. 



Q. What is her size ? A. 77 tons and 45-hundredths is her register. 



Q. What is the size of the other vessel? A. 124 tons and 76 huu- 

 dredths. 



Q. These are not the same vessels in which you went to the gulf ! A. 



