AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 1975 



Q. Do you know that of your own knowledge ? A. Yen. 



Q. From having fished ? A. Yes. They are tetter and bigger mark- 

 erel at Magdalen Islands. 



Q. Where did you fish in Prince Edward Island waters ? A. I tMn-l 

 all round the island. 



Q. Close inshore ? A. No. 



Q. You don't know anything about the inshore fishery ? A. I never 

 saw any mackerel inshore. 



Q. Have you gone in and tried ? A. Yes. 



Q. When did you try ? A. I tried the last year I was in the bay; I 

 tried close inshore and everywhere. 



Q. That was in 1876 ? A. Yes. 



Q. During any other year did you fish inshore at Prince Kdwanl 

 Island ? A. I would have taken them anywhere, because we could not 

 get them. 



Q. In 1876 you did go inshore and try? A. Yes; we were inshore 

 and tried. 



Q. At what part of the island ? A. We tried on the south side and 

 north side of the island. 



Q. Tell me the places. A. One place we tried was off Souris Head. 



Q. That is near the north of the island? A. It is at the soutU part 

 of the island. 



Q. How far from the shore ? A. Perhaps a couple of miles out. 



Q. And you could not get any ? A. We never caught any. 



Q. Did you try round the bight of the island ? A. We did not. 



Q. Did you ever try there ? A. Yes. 



Q. What year ? A. I cannot tell you what year; I tried a number 

 of times. I never got any to speak of. 



Q. Did you see boats fishing there? A. Yes. 



Q. Were they catching fish when you could not get any ? A. Some- 

 times they would be catching a few, and sometimes not. 



Q. Off Souris Head last year, did you see many boats fishing f- -A. 

 Yes; we ran from East Point to Malpeque, and we saw boats all the 

 way up and down the shore, from three to ten miles out. 



Q. Were they catching any fish? A. Some were catching a few and 

 some were not catching any. 



Q. As' a rule, the fishing'was a failure ? A. As a rule, they wen' not 

 catching many. We hove to, but caught none, and we went on to Mal- 

 peque. 



Q. Was that the time you were told there had been plenty there t 

 day before ? A. They told me that one year. Tbat was on the n 

 side of the island. 



Q. But when you went there you could not get any ? ; A. 

 not get any. 



Q. You did not hear that last year there were great nnmben 

 erel round Prince Edward Island coast ?- -A. We did not 

 see them anywhere. 



Q. Did you get any out in the gulf beyond three miles ft 

 year? A. v What we got were got at Magdalen Islands, all 



Is. 



Q. Where did you get those 20 barrels? A. Off East Point. 



Q. Close inshore f A. No; they were taken on a shal 

 we call 6 or 8 miles out. 



Q. Within three miles of the shore did you get any I 

 Nothing to speak of ; one or two barrels altogetl 



