AWARD OP THE FISHERY COMMISSION 2017 



Q. Do you think it impossible that, with the facility of obtaining 

 fresh bait ou the coast of Newfoundland do you think your banker* 

 could not make three trips, considering the facility of getting the frenn 

 bait, and the superiority of that to the salt bait t A. The fre*h in bet- 

 ter than the salt, but I think they could not make three trips or even 

 two, with any degree of assurance. Those vessels that carried Malt twit 

 enough to get a full fare, and staid there and got a full fare, would be 

 satisfied. I know a man, my own neighbor, who has two large vemwU 

 that he fitted with hand-lines, and the other he sent with trawl*, de- 

 pending upon going to Newfoundland for fresh bait. 



Q. Don't all those vessels on the Grand Bank fish with trawl* T A. 

 No. We have forty-eight bankers engaged in that burine** thin year. 

 Thirty of them are engaged in trawl-fishing, and eighteen are band-line 

 fishing. 



Q. You know that of your own knowledge ? A. I know that. 



Q. Do you know it of your own knowledge ? A. I didn't watch them 

 to see that there were no trawls, but I am just as well satisfied. 



Q. Well, it is a novelty to me to hear that there is a single vessel car- 

 rying on fishing ou the Grand Banks unless by trawls. A. Such i- tin- 

 fact that eighteen of these vessels go without trawls. This man own- 

 ing these vessels expects two large ones to come home wjth full fare*. 

 He expects the trawli ng-vessel that has been twice to Newfoundland 

 for bait to come home with a short fare. She was in at St. Peter* on 

 the llth August and the 27th August, and on the 27th he wrote home 

 that he hadn't any squid yet, but hoped to have some. 



Q. Do I understand you to say that when an owner sends his veiwel 

 to the Grand Bank, with the privilege of going to the coant of New- 

 foundland for bait, he looks forward to her coming back with a *hort 

 catch ? A. With trawl ? 



Q. Well, that, as a matter of fact, when an owner sends his ve**el to 

 the Banks, with the privilege of calling in at Newfoundland for bait, 

 he expects her to come back with a short catch ? A. No ; I do not wish 

 to be so understood. I wish to say that this man expects his hand line 

 vessels to do the best. 



Q. Well, than, hand-line fishing is the most productive? 

 them together as a whole, from the whole effect this year and hint veai 

 it has been the best. The hand-line has proved better than the trawl 

 on an average. 



Q. Well, how is it, then, that this trawling is so generally 

 the other is more productive? A. If you will ask me why Hie** .1 

 sels are engaged for trawl-fishing, and why they do not altogeti 

 fish, I will tell you the reason. The vessel is owned by a certain 

 or a certain number of men. They ship a captain to go in her 

 he is going to ruu the whole voyage and hire the crew, w 

 most, one or two sharesmeu or one and a half. Now, then, 1 1 

 hand-lining, he has got to have perhaps ten dory-boata 

 what they are, and he has got to have every man oapal 

 charge of that boat. When he anchors his vessel these boa 

 this, that, and every direction. But if he goes trawling, he . 

 five boats. Those five boats are larger, and are capaM 

 two men. Now, if he gets five men that are qualified 

 those boats, able to handle them, he might put cheap prw 

 same boats. He gets a crew at a cheaper .rate, and 

 ment. The captain ships a cheaper crew. 



Q. What is the difference between the wages paid to a trawl 

 and a hand line crew, in a vessel of fourteen ham 

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