AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



vessels? A. Yes. I have known twenty Cape Ann vessels com.* in 

 September and October to Provincetown Harbor for squid. There arc 

 people who make a business of catching and selling squid there. 



Q. Are you not the president of an insurance company f A. Yen. 



Q. Are you in the habit of insuring vessels I A. YetT. 



Q. What is the general opinion respecting the insurance of vessel* a* 

 to any extra danger being incurred if vessels go to the Magdalen Inlands ? 

 Do you consider that this is especially dangerous ! A. I would rather 

 insure vessels going to the Magdalen Islands than to any other part of 

 the Bay. 



Q. And in preference to those going to Prince Edward Island ? A. 

 Yes. 



Q. What has been done with respect to the insurance of vessels which 

 go to Newfoundland for bait ? A. Some insurers have inserted in their 

 policies a clause stating that the vessel should not go in there for bait ; 

 but we never have done so as yet. This year we lost a vessel which went 

 in for bait, and I think that in future a clause will be placed in oar-poli- 

 cies prohibiting vessels we insure going in for bait. 



By Mr. Thomson : 



Q. Is there any clauseinyour policies prohibitingvesselsfromenteriug 

 the Gulf of Saint Lawrence at any particular times ? A. O, no ; but we 

 charge half a cent more on vessels which are in the Bay of Saint Law- 

 rence in the month of October. 



Q. But your policies do not restrict vessels to any part of the bay T 

 A. No. 



Q. Then I understand you, as a navigator, to state that you look ti|K>n 

 the Magdalen Islands as about the safest place in the bay T A. Ye*. 

 Whether as a fisherman or an insurer, I would prefer them to any part 

 of the Saint Lawrence. 



Q. And the idea of the sea round the Magdalen Islands being stormy 

 and tempestuous is entirely erroneous? A. No; but we can make shel- 

 ter there so much quicker than elsewhere in the bay. 



Q. Is there a stormy sea around these islands ? A. I think it is 

 ^windier at the Magdalen Islands than it is in any other part of the bay. 



Q. And yet you think it is safer than any other part of it ? A. Yes ; 

 because we never fish there so far off that we cannot make shelter in A 

 few moments* 



Q. You mean that you always fish inshore there ? A. Yes. 



Q. Then the mackerel do go'iushore there ? A. Yes: on the ledges, 

 which are round these islands. 



Q. According to your idea this is the only place in the bay where 

 mackerel do go inshore to any extent ? A. I think that they do so more 

 at the Magdalen Islands than elsewhere in the bay. I was never fishing 

 anywhere else in the bay inshore. 



Q. I then understand you to say that you never fished inshore any- 

 where in the Gulf of St. Lawrence except at the Magdalen Islands !- 

 A. O, yes ; I stated in my evidence in chief, that I fished inshore at 

 Margaree and caught 200 barrels there. 



Q. Did you not say just now that you had fished inshore nowhere i 

 the gulf save at the Magdalen Islands! A. You misunderstood me. 



Q. Then you have fished inshore elsewhere in the bay !- 

 and caught a few mackerel off Souris at another time, and we I 

 a large quantity of mackerel off Magaree 200 barrels 



Q. That is off Cape Breton ? A. Yes. 



Q. And those you caught close inshore ? A. ^es. 



