AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 1019 



Q. And you did not stop there? A. No; I expected to and flnh on 

 the eastern shore, where I went and fished. 



Q. During these 8 years you only obtained 10 barrels of fl*h on 

 George's Bank ? A. Yes. 



Q. And all the rest you secured on the American inshore Hulling 

 grounds ? A. Yes. 



Q. And you took them all about ten miles from the shore T A. I said 

 I should judge that I took about three-quarters of what I can-lit out- 

 side of ten miles from the shore. 



Q. How far outside of 10 miles ? A. From 10 to 50 miles. 



Q. And you took about three-quarters of your fish at that di.stanra 

 from the shore? A. Yes; I should think that these were taken outMide 

 of 10 miles from the shore. 



Q. How far from the shore did you catch the other one-quarter T A. 

 We cannot go very near the shore; our nets are 27 fathoms deep, and 

 we must not go near it or we would touch bottom. We have to fish 7 

 or 8 miles from the laud. 



Q. As I understand you, then, instead of catching one-quarter of the 

 fish inshore, not a single barrel of all those you have taken during th 

 last eight years have been caught within three miles of your own ronalT 

 A. In some places we can go within a mile of the shore and have 

 plenty of water. 



Q. You are upon oath, and you say that during these eight years you 

 have not, on any one occasion, fished within three miles of your own 

 coast? A. I have caught one-quarter of the fish from two or three 

 miles out, according to my judgment. I do not know exactly how far 

 it was from the shore. I never define it. I might have caught one- 

 quarter of my fish inside, perhaps, of three miles from the shore. 



Q. Did you not tell me just now that you caught one quarter of the 

 fish within 7 or 8 miles of the shore and the other throe-quarters from 10 

 to 50 miles out? A. It might have been inside of the three miles that 

 I got the quarter. We took them anywhere where our seine would not 

 touch bottom. 



Q. Did you not tell me just now that you took them between 7 or 8 

 or 10 miles of the shore? A. I did not mean to .say so, but 1 might 

 have done so. I did not intend to say so, if I did do it. 



Q. Will you tell me what proportion of the three quarters was taken 

 between Sand 10 miles of the shore, and what proportion between fl 

 miles from, and the shore! A. 1 cannot tell you anything about it, 

 save from my judgment. I tell you that we caught the mackerel any- 

 where where the net would not touch bottom. 



Q. You stated that it would touch bottom anywhere along shore, d 

 you not? A. I did not say anywhere, but that we must have L'7 fath- 

 oms of water for it. 



Q. flow far have you fished from the shore ! A. We have f 

 around the ledges. 



Q. But how far from the shore ? A. It was two miles from the >. 



Q. Will you swear it was within two miles of the shore T 

 plenty of mackerel are inshore, but we could not get at them. 



Q. Wffl you swear that any portion of that one quarter v 

 within three miles of the shore? A. I do not know that 

 to that. 



Q. It then comes to this: You can swear that of the who I 

 catch you caught three-quarters from 10 to 15 miles off 

 'that as to the other quarter you cannot state that one i 

 taken within three miles of the shore f A. I cau. 



