1968 AWAED OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Q. Was this that year when you were nineteen? A. No; it was some 

 time before that. 



Q. You say you made $300 that year for your father. I thought you 

 said you did not know what you made until you settled for yourself* 

 A. Xo. I said I did not know except this one year, because I made a 

 big years work. 



Q. Did he tell you you had made a big year's work ? A. He might 

 have told me, or the crew might have said. I know they made $300 a 

 share. 



Q. How did you, as a matter of fact, get the information? A. I can- 

 not tell you ; I don't know. 



Q. Well, as to the other years, you cannot tell whether you made 

 money or lost? A. Of course I made money. I had nothing to lose, 

 and could not lose anything. 



Q. Your father did not lose? A. He had nothing to lose. He had 

 nothing to lose, and I have not either. 



Q. Did the vessels make money ou those trips ? A. I don't know what 

 they made. 



Q. You never asked ? A. They have always told me when I have 

 been skipper that they never made anything. Whether it is so or not 

 I don't know. 



Q. The owners tell you that, and I suppose you contradict them? 

 A. I don't contradict them. I don't know and don't care, so long as I 

 get my money. 



Q. You believe them when they tell you they don't make any money? 

 A. Well, I know just about what mackerel are got, and 1 can tell a 

 little about it myself. 



Q. Do you believe them or do you not? A. Sometimes I do and 

 sometimes I do not. 



Q. Which is the rule ; how often do you believe them ? A. I can't 

 tell you how often. It is according to how much money I have stopped. 

 If I have stopped $9,000, and they tell me that they have not made any- 

 thiug, I believe they lie; if I have stopped $3,000 or $4,000, and they 

 tell me they are not making anything, I believe they tell the truth. 



Q. How often do they lie and how often do they tell the truth ? A. 

 I can't tell how often. 



Q. What is a fair charter per month for a vessel of 70 tons? A. I 

 don't know. 



Q. You have been iu the fishing business ever since you were thirteen ' 

 and don't know ? A. 1 don't know anything about chartering. I never 

 chartered one. It used to be a good many years ago from $1.80 to $2 a 

 ton. I don't know what it is now. 



Q. Tor how loug is that ? A. That would be for the whole season, 

 as long as they chartered for, whether four or five mouths, so much per 

 month. 



Q. Was that an ordinary figure ? A. 1 don't know what it is now. I 

 suppose a good deal more. 



Q Why more 1 A. I don't know why; because every thiug is more, I 

 suppose. 



Q. Is it because fish are more plenty, or what is the reason ? A. Be- 

 cause there are not so many, I should say. 



Q. But would men hire a vessel at a very large price to catch a few 

 fish ? A. They don't hire, because they don't charter vessels now. 



Q. Do you mean that the owners run them on their own account ? 

 A. They do run them ou their own account. 



