2060 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Q. Do you use salt bait for any other kind of fishing than trawling ? 

 A. We use it hand-lining also. 



Q. Which do you use it for most, hand-lining or trawling ? A. That 

 depends on the way we fish. 



Q. Is salt bait just as good as fresh ? A. Fresh bait is the best. 



Q. Is it not more generally used ? A. When you can get it. 



Q. If yon can, it is much better than salt? A. Yes. 



Q. Practically, the salt bait cannot compete with the fresh bait f A. 

 No ; it is not as good as fresh. 



Q. Don't the vessels that run over here from the United States, 

 and get bait from Nova Scotia, use fresh bait altogether ? A. Yes; the 

 Cape Ann vessels do. 



Q. Don't they from Gloucester as well ? A. The Gloucester vessels 

 use fresh bait altogether. 



Q. They run up the bay of F'undy to Grand Ma-nan t A. Yes. 



Q. They don't care for salt bait ? A. No. They have a different way 

 of fishing from our vessels. 



Q. How different? A. They make shorter trips on the whole. . t Our 

 vessels make a long trip. They are full of salt bait and provisions, and 

 calculate to see no port until they return again. 



Q. Don't the Cape Ann vessels do that? A. Most of them make 

 short trips, I think. 



Q. What do you mean by that? A. They get their fish and go out 

 and use it, and then come back for more. They get a good deal of bait 

 at Sandy Point. 



Q. Where is that ? A. It is at Cape Cod. 



Q. That is the first trip, I suppose. Do they come back after they 

 use that or get it elsewhere! They use that up? A. Yes; the weirs 

 are taken up about the 1st of June. 



Q. Then where do they go to get bait? A. They get a great deal of 

 bait on the coast of Maine pogies. 



Q. Do they come back to the coast of Maine afterward to get more 

 bait, after thev run out ! A. T don't think thev do those at the Grand 

 Bank. 



Q. Where do they go to get bait? Don't they go to the Newfoundland 

 coast ? A. I think they do. 



Q. Do you know they do ? A. I never had any vessels but one do^it. 



Q. Don't you know from people telling you ? A. I think they do. 



Q. That is a considerable privilege, is it not, to be able to come into 

 our waters to get bait without going all the way back to the coast of 

 Maine or Massachusetts ? What do you say to that ? Say it is not if 

 you like. A. I don't know. I never had any vessel that went. I could 

 not tell except about my own. 



Q. You never heard the people that are engaged in the business say 

 it was a privilege? A. No; I never heard the Cape Ann people. I 

 never had any dealings with it, and do not know anything about it. 



Q. As a practical fisherman, do you know or do you believe it to be 

 a privilege ? A. It is no privilege to us. 



Q. If you don't engage in the fisheries it is no privilege, but for those 

 engaged iii the fisheries, is it not ? Say that it is not or say that it is. 

 A. The privilege would be the result arising from it. 



Q. I do not care in what light you consider it. I want to know 

 whether you consider it a privilege or not? A. I do not know. I never 

 had any vessels do it. 



Q. As a practical fisherman, I again ask you to give me an answer, if 

 you will, or decline to say whether you do not consider it a piivilege for 



