AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 2056 



Q. When dirt you go to the Gulf of St. Lawrence? A. About the 

 middle of June. 



Q. Then you were fishing oji Bank Bradley for a month T A. Very 

 nearly yes. 



Q. Is Bank Bradley a large Bank ? A. I was never fishing there 

 when a man. At the time I was merely a boy ; I wan '21 years old. 



Q. Whether a boy or a man, do you mean to Kay that you forget all 

 about it ? A. I forget the particulars of the voyage. 



Q. Can you tell me how many fish you caught, then, on Bank Brad- 

 ley ? A. No ; I could not. 



Q. In answer to Mr. Trescot, you gave us to understand that you got 

 your fare there? A. We also went up to Gaspe\ 



Q. You do not know how much you got on Bank Bradley ! A. No. 



Q. Did you go to the Bay of Chaleurs? A. I was never there in my 

 life. 



Q. Did you fish close to the shore off the Gaspe coast ? A. We kept 

 outside the limits, because a cutter was about there at the time. 



Q. You wanted to go inshore, but you were afraid to do so T A. -No; 

 there were no fish inshore. 



Q. Why did you say that you kept outside the limits because a cutter 

 was there? A. I said that we did not fish inshore because a cutter was 

 there, and we did not care about being arrested. 



Q. And you knew that there were no fish inshore ? A. We never tried 

 for fish inshore. There might have been fish in there for all I know. 



Q. Why did you say just now that you did not go in because there 

 were no fish there? A. Because we never tried there, and consequently 

 we did not know that there were fish there. 



Q. And you did not try there because you were afraid of the cutter t 

 A. That is It exactly. 



Q. Did you see vessels fishing in there when you were there ? A. No. 



Q. There were no fishing- vessels, or boats, or anything of that kind 

 there? A. I never saw any. 



Q. Where was this? A. I think that it was some fifty or sixty milea 

 above Gaspe. 



Q. Then you must have been in the St. Lawrence River! A. \\e 

 were at the mouth of it. 



Q. How far up the river did you go ? Were you as far up as Point 

 des Monts ? A. I do not remember. 



Q. How far up the St. Lawrence did you go! A. Fifty or sixty mil* 

 above Gaspe, I think. 



Q. And all the time you kept from fifteen to sixteen miles off shor 

 A. We were from ten to fifteen miles off. 



Q. You were never nearer the shore than that ! -A. \ 

 shore all the time. 



Q. Did you get a full fare up there! V. >o; I thin 

 somewhere about 150 barrels there ; and we obtained 4<R 

 we went home. 



Q. When did you finish the trip ? A. I think somewher 



20th of August. 



Q. When did you come back to the gulf !-A. I think we ret 

 the bav on the 5th of September. 



Q. You did not go to the Magdalen Islands at all on 

 A. JS T o. 



Q. You never fished there before? A. .No. 



Q. What part of the island did you fish ?_ A. From Mal|*qiit 

 Point. The balance we caught over on the Cape Bret* 



