AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 2<)4l 



Q. Look at the book, and see what yon have there rei>ectiug IH<;-J T 

 A. In 1862, it says, we caught our fish at the Magdalen Inlands. 



Q. Where did you get that statement from your memory or from 

 some other hook ? A. 1 told you that I could not' tell just now. Per- 

 haps I partly took it from my old books, and partly from my memory. 



Q. You do not know whether you took it from another book or froin 

 your memory ? A. I think that I took it from another lnx>k. 



Q. Did you say a moment ago that you did not know whether you 

 took it from another book 1 A. I said, I am not certain about it. 



Q. Are you certain now ? Can you recollect ? A. I do not know that 

 I can be positive about it. 



Q. How much of your fish would you estimate that you caught within 

 three miles of the shore in British waters during the whole period in 

 question ? A. I do uot know as I can make that out exactly to a frac- 

 tional part, because in some trips I have not caught any within this 

 limit. 



Q. Can yon give me any idea as to how much you so caught ! A- I" 

 all my fishing? 



Q. 'Yes. A. Well, perhaps 150 barrels. I mean in the course of all 

 these trips. 



Q. Did you ever hear of the practice of lee-bowing ! A. I have ; and 

 I have seen it. 



Q. Have you ever seen it done in the Bay of St. Lawrence! A. Yes; 

 but very little. 



Q. But you have seen it ? A. I have seen some of it there. 



Q. Where? A. When fishing off Entry Island, at the Magdalen 

 Islands. 



Q. Have you seen it anywhere else! A. Yes - r between Amherst 

 Island, of the Magdalen Islands, and East Point, Prince Edward 

 - Island. 



Q. Have you seen it anywhere else save at the Magdalen Islands T- 

 A. I said I had seen lee-bowing off Entry Island and between Amhernt 

 Island and East Point. 



Q. Where is Entry Island ? A. On the south side of the Magdalen 

 Islands. 



Q. Have you ever seen it anywhere else besides at the Magdalen 

 Islands? A. Yes; between Amherst Island and East Point, Prince 

 Edward Island, when fishing just in the lay of the Magdalen Islam 



Q. Out in the open sea ? A. Yes. 



Q. I do not refer to that ; I never heard of it myself 

 lee-bowing of boats ; did you ever hear of that being done inshore f 

 No ; I never heard of the lee-bowing of boats. 



Q. Never in your life? A. I do not know as I ever did-. 



Q. The lee-bowing of which you have heard was the IIM> I 

 vessels? A. Yes; of the lee-bowing of boats I know nothin 



Q. Do mackerel fishing- vessels usually carry apparatus 

 codfish ! A. No ; with the exception of a line or two to catch ft 

 I speak now of my vessels and where I sailed from. 



Q. And you have been in about fifty-two vessels !- 

 speak of those. 



Q. Do not mackerel fishing- vessels usually carry home son 

 does not the master of every mackerel fishing-vessel carry h 

 A. Not every one ; those I have been in have never earned 



Q. Does not almost every such vessel do so?- A. I could 



Q. Does the master of every mackerel fishing- vessel carry h 

 on board ? No. A. I do not know of any that do so. 



