AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 1943 



Q. You do admit, then, that fresh bait is the best ? A. O, certainly 

 when other vessels on the Bank have it. 



Q. When codfish see fresh bait they prefer it to salt bait! A. Yen. 



Q. Consequently, you admit that it is of some advantage to vou to I'M. 

 able to go to the coast of Newfoundland and get fresh bait*? A () 

 yes ; certainly it is ; and our going there is an advantage to your people! 



Q. Do you not now consider that it is a very great advantage to you 

 to be able to go there and get ice in which to preserve the fresh bail'? 

 A. Yes. 



Q. Do you throw overboard any of your small fish at the Banks? 

 A. We saved them all this year. I have thrown some of them over- 

 board. 



Q. Are all the fish you caught large ! A. No ; we got some small 

 fish. 



Q. What did you do this year with the small fish ? A. \Ve have them 

 on board the vessel. 



Q. What are you going to do with them ? A. I am carrying them 

 home. 



Q. Of what size are the small fish? A. I think they are 18 or 19 

 inches long. 



Q. Are they as small as that ? A. Yes. 



Q. Have you sold any of them in Newfoundland f A. Yes. 



Q. What did you get a quintal for them ! A. 1.40. 



Q. Have you sold any cod-oil in Newfoundland f A. No. 



Q. Do you not think that it would be a very great advantage to you to 

 be able to transship your fish into vessels at Newfoundland ami send 

 them to market ? A. O, no. 



Q. Would it be no advantage whatever to you ? A. I would not care 

 about it. I would rather lug them home. 



, Q. You would rather continue to bait your vessels at Newfoundland 

 until you get a full voyage, and then go home with it f A. Yen. 



Q. Your experience of the Bank fishery only extends over the period 

 since 1875? A. Yes; and I do not think that I will trouble it any more. 

 I do not like it. 



Q. Have you not made a very handsome profit this year ? A. I have 

 made enough to keep me going. 



Q. You caught 200,000 last year and 175,000 this year, and I am sufli- 

 cient of a fisherman to know that these will yield you a handsome 

 profit? A. Hardly, for a vessel like ours. 



Q. Do you calculate on dried fish ? A. I have 17.".,iMH green ; this 

 is the way in which 1 sell them out of the vessel at home. 



. Q. I believe that the Bank fishing operations have been very profitable 

 to the Americans heretofore and previous to the Washington Treaty 

 when they only used salt bait ? A. Better fares were got on the Grunt 

 Banks before they ever commenced running fresh bait than him hoen 

 the case since. 



Q. Were not the American Banking fishing operations a pn 

 business prior to the Washington Treaty you know as well as 

 this was the case ? A. I cannot tell you about the Banking I 



Q. What induced you to go into these Banking o|Nraiion.< 

 not because you knew that it was a profitable businww 

 and because you knew that it would be still more profltabl 

 bait? A. O, no. I did not think anything about it. 

 the reason why I went. 1 lost a friend in the gale, and 1 

 the employment of Mansfield, who wanted his vessels 



Q. Will you swear that Bank fishing operations were i 



