AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 1935 



Q. Dirt you catch them there within three miles of the com*? A* 

 Some of them I did, and some I did not. 



Q. How many did you catch within the three mile limit f \ I could 

 not tell. 



Q. But we want you to tell? A. I might have taken l. r ,0 or 125 bar- 

 rels within the three-mile limit. 



Q. Would you say the number was 120? A. I would not be certain 

 to a barrel. 



Q. Would the. number be 130? A. We will call it 130. 



Q. Would you allow us to call it 140 or 150 ? A Yes 



Q. Or 200 ! A. No. 



Q. Did you take any count of the catch in this regard at all will 

 you swear to it 1 ? A. I am not able to swear to it in that wav. 1 never 

 kept such count. 



Q. You are not obliged to say how many you caught within any- 

 particular distance from the shore. I do not think it possible. A. No, 

 I cannot say that; but then I can say that I have never obtained many 

 fish inshore. 



Q. But you may have caught 125, 130, 140. or 150 barrels inshore ? 

 A. Yes. 



Q. But you will not say 200 ? A, No. 



Q. The number so caught was somewhere between 125 and 150 * A. 

 Yes. 



Q. Do I understand you to say that you had a legal right to h'sh near 

 the coast of the Magdalen Islands? A. I knew that we had a legal 

 right to catch them as close to that shore as we liked. 



Q. Is that the reason why you say you caught that number there in- 

 shore ? A. No. It was all owing to where the mackerel played, I 

 suppose. 



Q. Altogether? A. Yes. 



Q. The legal right in question made no difference in the matter! A. 

 No. When we went to the Magdalens we caught mackerel wherever we 

 found them. 



Q. How many vessels fished at the Magdalen Islands! A. I have 

 seen as many as 200 sail there, I should think. 



Q. Where did they fish ? A. All around the islands. 



Q. Inside or outside of the three miles from the shore T A. Inside 

 and outside, and everywhere. 



Q. Did you ever get a full fare at the Banks in a few days and then 

 go home? A. No. 



Q. Did you ever see such a thing done ? A. No. The most 1 have 

 ever caught in a few days was 200 barrels in three days off the Mag- 

 dalen Islands. 



Q. Did you ever fish above Cape Gaspe ? A. Not si nee 'I have been 

 master of a vessel. 



Q. But did you ever fish on the shores of the St. Lawrence abc 

 Cape Gaspe, either on the north or south side of the river?- 



Q. You never fished there at all ? A. I have never been up to Oapv 



Q. And you have never fished off Prince Edward Island at ; 

 I have tried for mackerel there. 



Q. How many times did you do so? A. I could not tell 



Q. How many times did you try on the island ?- 



Q. Will you undertake to say that you never tried onn- 

 within three miles of the coast ? A. Yes, I have tried ! 

 the three-mile limit. 



Q. How often ? A. I could not say. 



