1976 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Q. About how much of the whole catch did you get inshore last 

 year? A. I should say one-eighth part. 



Q. Don't you think that is too high an average? A. I think it is 

 fully high enough. 



Q. Did you catch your fish inshore at Magdalen Islands ? A. Some 

 inshore and some out. 



Q. How many inshore ? A. Perhaps one third we caught inshore, 

 within three miles. 



Q. Of the 20 barrels what proportion did you catch inshore '- 7*' "of 

 the 20 barrels we caught the whole of them at a shallow placv, v jich we 

 call G or 8 miles out. Whether it is so I don't know. 



Q. You did not catch one barrel of those 20 barrels within * jree miles 

 of the shore ? A. No. 



Q. You caught one-third of the 120 barrels inshore at tho Magdalen 

 Islands? A. About one-eighth. 



Q. You said one-third? A. I might have said one-third I meant 

 one-eighth. 



Q. Were you correct in saying you caught one-third inshore ? A. If 

 I said one-third let it go so. It does not make any difference whether 

 we got one-third, one-half, or the whole inshore there. 



Q. How many of the 120 barrels did you catch inshore at the Magda- 

 len Islands ? A. If I told you one-third it is all right. 



Q. Although you said just now it was a mistake, and it was one-eighth 

 and not one-third. Don't you think you caught more than one-third in- 

 shore? A. I don't think anything about it. 



Q. Why ? A. Because I don't care whether I caught them inshore or 

 out. At the Magdalen Islands it does not make any difference whether 

 I got one-third inshore or one-third offshore. 



Q. But it may make a good deal of difference in regard to telling the 

 truth ? A. I am telling the truth as near as I can. 



Q. Which is the truth, one-eighth or one-third? A. You may call it 

 one-third. 



Q. Do you say one-eighth or one-third ? A. I tell you one-third. 



Q. Is that correct? A. It is correct. 



Q. Why did you say one-third was a mistake? A. I thought I said 

 one-eighth at the time ; but you said that I said one-third. 



Q. Because you said one-third you are going to stick to it ? A. Yes. 



Q. Speaking of one-eighth, will you tell me, suppose you got 100 bar- 

 rels of fish, how many barrels one-eighth would be ? A. It would be 

 one-eighth of 100 barrels. 



Q. How many would that be ? A. Eight barrels out of 100, of course. 



Q. When you went down to Prince Edward Island, once in a while, 

 you gave them some bait out of pure philanthropy. At all events you 

 gave away bait? A. Yes; I gave away all I had to them; I never sold 

 any. 



Q. You kept clear of the inshore because the cutters were there at 

 times .' A. While I was a skipper I never saw any cutters except one 

 year. 



Q. ^yhat year was that? A. The year I was on the Phoenix, 18G5 or 

 18GG. They were Canadian cutters. That was the only time I saw them 

 while I was skipper. I saw cutters there while I was a hand. 



Q. You are sure you were in the Pho3nix? A. I am pretty certain I 

 was. 



Q. In 18G6 and 18G7 I understood you were in the Martha A. Porter? 

 A. I cannot be sure about the cutters; I only saw one cutter there 

 while I was skipper. 



