AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 1971 



swear as to what took place twenty years ago. You Mill Htick to the 

 statement that you got these 180 barrels ! A. Of course. 



Q. When did you recollect it ? Where did yon get the figure* from ? 

 Did you bear it in your memory all the time, or has your memory been 

 refreshed I A. ] know what vessel I was in, and what mackerel I 

 caught. 



Q. You just remember it all along ! Had you any idea that 1847 wan 

 thirty years ago? A. I don't mind of noticing anything about it. 



Q. You say you got them at Magdalen Islands, and your ful! fare 

 would have been 220, if I understood you right. Is that so! A. Yen; 

 somewheres about that. 



Q. What was the tonnage of the Mary Eliza ! A. Fifty-odd ton*. 



Q. Would not a fifty-ton vessel take a good deal more than 220 bar 

 rels ? Would she not take nearer 400 ; would not she take 3<H>, at any 

 rate ! A. No, because there was not room enough. 



Q. Two hundred and twenty, then, would be pretty nearly a full 

 fare 1 A. No j about 220 to 250. 



Q. Now, you got these 180 barrels at Magdalen Islands ! A. Yea. 



Q. And you fished nowhere else ? A. No. 



Q. That is a curious thing. It is an expensive thing to run a vessel 

 from Gloucester, is it not? You went straight to the Magdalen Isl- 

 ands? A. Yes. 



Q. Through the Gut of Canseau, of course ? A. Yes. 



Q. You did not attempt to fish anywhere else, and came home with 

 very little better than half a cargo ! A. Yes. 



Q. You did not attempt to h'sh anywhere else ? A. There waa DO 

 mackerel anywhere else. 



Q. You did not try anywhere else ? A. I did not say we did not try 

 anywhere else ; we might have tried in running across to Magdalen 

 .Islands. 



Q. I am not asking you whether you might have tried, but whether 

 you did try. A. We did try in running across to Magdalen Island*. 



Q. Did you not say you ran straight to Magdalen Islands, and that 

 you did not try because it would be no use ? A. I say now we ran 

 straight to Magdalen Islands. 



Q. Did you not say you did not try because it would be no use ? 

 We did not fish anywhere else. 



Q. You are positive you did not fish anywhere else f A. We did not 

 fish anywhere else than at Magdalen Islands. We might have hove t 

 to see if there was any mackerel, and if we did not raise any we kepi 

 going along. We ran straight to Magdalen Islands, but we I 

 morning and night. 



Q. Did you try anywhere else ? A. We tried on running t 

 tried when we hove to at night. 



Q. Why did you say you did not try?- -A. We did not oatfl 

 erel anywhere else except at Magdalen Islands. 



ing, and we tried for fish. 



Q. Is it true or not that you did try elsewhere than at the Mafd 

 Islands t A. We caught our mackerel at the Magdalen I, 



Q. My question is this : Did you try to catch hshany where 

 at the Magdalen Islands, on that occasion ?- A. \\e tried . 

 running across ; we might have hove to once. 



Q. You ran straight from Gloucester, through Canso, aor 



