2020 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



to those Bank-fishing vessels going into Newfoundland? A. Henry 

 Cook ; he was one. 



Q. How many vessels is he agent for ? A. I think five. 



Q. Yon don't remember the name of any other? A. Yes, I do; Philip 

 A. Waugh. 



Q. Who else ? A. L. N. Payne. 



Q. Is he here? A. No; his brother is. When I speak of different 

 persons as agents, I refer to those who act as such, and who gave me 

 information. 1 do not know whose name may appear in the paper at 

 the custom-house. Mr. Payne is one of a firm who are agents. 



Q. Is he here ? A. No. 



Q. Do you know of any other ? A. Francis Joseph. 



Q. He told you the same thing ? A. Yes. He is not here. 



Q. Is there any other? A. I don't thiuk of any others I don't 

 think of any others I had any long conversation with. 



Q. No, but I mean any others who told you this ? A. Well, I won't 

 state any other names. 



Q. You don't remember any other names than those four out of 

 twenty-four? A. 1 don't know about the twenty-four. 



Q. Well, you say twenty-three or twenty-four? A. I don't want to 

 confine myself to twenty three or twenty-four, and I guess at that. 



Q. Well, out of all the agents. Some have four or five vessels? A. 

 Some. 



Q. Those are the only ones you can remember as having so expressed 

 themselves ? A. I don't remember any others that I had conversation 

 with aboitt that. 



Q. In your conversation with them, you being strongly impressed 

 with the objection to these vessels going into the coast of Newfound- 

 land for bait, did you not, in the first instance, tell them that such was 

 the case, and impress them that such was the case! A. I was not op- 

 posed to their going into Newfoundland for bait at all ; not a bit of it. 



Q. But were you strongly impressed that going into the coast of 

 Newfoundland was disadvantageous to them ? A. I thought it was, on 

 the whole, with their mode of fishing. 



Q. And you were strongly of that opinion ? A. That was my opin- 

 ion ; 1 don't wish to deny it. 



Q. You are looked upon in Proviucetown as a very high authority in 

 regard to fisheries ? A. I don't know about that. 



Q. You hold a high position there in connection with questions con- 

 cerning the fisheries ! A. I have had some experience in fishing, and I 

 don't know but that they give me a fair amount of respect. 



Q. You are looked upon as a high authority there as regards fish- 

 eries ? A. Well, I suppose so. 



Q. What you state upon any point concerning the fisheries is almost 

 conclusive in the minds of those to whom you are speaking? A. Fishing 

 from an industrial and commercial point of view is one thing, and from 

 a natural history point of view is another thing. 



Q. Has not your opinion great influence among the common people 

 concerning the fisheries? A. I guess I should have as much influence 

 in those matters as almost anybody. I don't bold myself up to be more 

 than other men. Men who own vessels and carry on fishing I don't 

 own vessels and don't carry on fishing know more about the business 

 commercially and practically than I do. 



Q. What you say as regards questions concerning the fisheries is 

 entitled to be received as the fact ? A. You have asked me a question 

 that I could not answer I believe 1 did not answer it as to how much 



