AWARD OP THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 1 ' ,1 



Q. Tell me the names of the American vessels in which you fished ! 

 A. I built the first one in which I fished the Fashion. 'The next one 

 was the Laura Mangan ; the next the American Eagle; the next the Fit/. 

 J. Babson ; and the next the Pathfinder. 



Q. Had you any Nova Scotians in the Pathfinder ? A. Yes. 



Q. How many barrels did you catch in the Pathfinder? A. I think 

 we obtained 600 barrels during one season when I was in her; (hiring 

 another season I made only one trip with her and got .'{GO barrels. 



Q. What did you catch in the other vessels ? A. The first jear 1 

 went master of a vessel, I think we .got somewhere in the neighborhood 

 of 700 barrels. We made three fares. 



Q. What did you catch in the other vessels ? A. We caught about 

 700 barrels iu the Laura Mangan one summer; and the next summer 

 about 500 barrels. I think we secured 400 barrels during the first sea- 

 son I was in the American Eagle. 



Q. How many trips did you make in her? A. Two. 



Q. How many trips did you make in the other vessels ? A. Two. 



Q. You made two trips in all of them ? A. Yes, except the first year, 

 when I made three trips. 



Q. And in all the others you made two trips ? A. Yes, excepting one 

 year, in the Pathfinder, when I made only one trip. 



Q. How long were you in the Pathfinder on that one trip .' A. I think 

 that we were gone about eight weeks. 



Q. Altogether ? A. Yes. 



Q. This was from the time you left until the time you returned ? 

 A. Yes. 



Q. And you got COO or 700 barrels during that time ? A. Yes; we 

 took about 600 barrels in the Pathfinder. 



Q. Did you not get 700 ? A. We caught 360 and 270 in the two 

 trips. 



Q. That is just what you obtained f A. Yes. 



Q. During what years did you take out a license f A. I took out a 

 license when I was in the Laura Mangau, I think ; but 1 would not Sty 

 whether 1 bought two licenses or one license. 



Q. Did you fish in our waters under the Reciprocity Treaty, when it 

 was not necessary to take out a license ? A. Yes. 



Q. And afterward you took out a license ? A. Yes. When I went 

 into the bay in the Laura Mangan I paid the first year, I think, 50 cents 

 a ton. 



Q. Did you take out a license the first year you fished ? 

 I did so the first year I fished in the Laura Mangan. 



Q. Did you do so the first year you came fishing ?--A. Yes; t 

 year that licenses were issued I took one. 



Q. Were you in the bay the year previous? A. \es 

 before that. 



Q. This was when you could fish without a license T 



Q. Did you take out a license every year afterward ! 

 know. I almost forget whether 1 took licenses out for two years 



Q. During how many years afterward did you fish ?- 

 every year iu the bay when licenses were issued. 



Q. Did you take out a license every year ?- -A. No : not 



Q. You fished without a license for one or two years 



Q. In what vessel did you then fish ? A. In the Lam 

 the American Eagle. I took out a license when in the t 

 not know whether I took out a license during two years 



Q. At any rate, you have fished without a license . 



