2056 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Q. Close inshore ? A. No ; 10 or 15 miles off. 



Q. You ne.vei- tried ilie iusluue fishery at al< at the island, and whether 

 it was good or bad you do not know ! A. No. 



Q. The second trip you got 600 barrels ? A. Yes. 



Q. Why did you take those off shore ? A. We took 200 barrels on 

 on the Cape Breton side, off' Margaree. Those were inshore. 



Q. Did you get them close inshore? A, Yes. 



Q. There were no cutters about to disturb you then ? A. Yes, but we 

 would clear out. 



Q. Could you not catch them abroad off Margaree? A. No; they 

 were inshore. 



Q. You swear that you did not get them inshore at Prince Edward 

 Island at all ? A. No. 



Q. At Margaree you did ? A. Yes. 



Q. The mackerel, as a rule, keep inshore ? A. They do at Magdalen 

 Islands and along Cape Brecon they do. 



Q. Do not they along Prince Edward Island as well? A. I never 

 found any inshore there around the island. 



Q. Did you never fish there ? A. That fall. That was all. 



Q. Did you fish inshore? Didn't you tell me just now yon didn't ? 

 Why do you say you didn't get them ? A. We found plenty off shore. 



Q. Why did you say you could not get them inshore if you never 

 were there ? I can understand your saying you did not get them, but 

 I do not understand how you say you could not if you were never there. 

 What do you mean by saying you could not get them ? A, J did not 

 say so. 



Q. In point of fact, you never did try ? A. No ; not around the 

 island. 



Q. At what time did you ever fish inshore at Prince Edward Island ? 

 A. 1855, in the month of September, I caught some mackerel off Souris. 



Q. Was that the year you took a license ? A. No. 



Q. When was the time you had a vessel in the gulf before '67 '65, I 

 think ? A. I was doing business then. 



Q. You fitted out vessels in 1865. What were the names of the ves- 

 sels you fitted out? A. I fitted out two vessels in 1865, the Samuel 

 Ober and the Antelope. 



Q. Did either go in the gulf ? A. The Samuel Ober went into the 

 gulf cod-fishing. 



Q. Did she fish inshore at all? A. No. 



Q. Did she fish for mackerel at all ? A. Just a few for bait : that i 

 all. 



Q. Then you sent them in without bait? A. Yes. 



Q. Where did they catch it ? A. With nets. 



Q. In what part of the bay ? A. Wherever they fished. 



Q. Where did they fish ? A. In the spring at the Magdalens. 



Q. Where did they on that occasion take their bait ? A. They took 

 bait every night ; they set nets. 



Q. Do you think that is an answer to the question where they took 

 it? A. When they were fishing at the Magdalens they took it there; 

 when they were at Bradley they took it there ; and they took it wher- 

 ever they were fishing. 



Q. I ask you where they took their bait, and you say that if they 

 were fishing at one place they took it there, and if they were fishing at 

 another place they took it there. 1 ask you where, as a matter of fact, 

 did they take it ? A. Wherever they fished. 



