AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 2069 



Q. You had a trawling- vessel year before last that cut up fish and got 

 a full fare! A. She caught 1,040 quintals. 



Q. Do you know of any cod-fishing prosecuted within 3 miles of the 

 shore in British waters ! A. I don't know of any. 



Q. There has been some account given here of some young men from 

 Provincetown who went to Magdalen Islands and established themselves 

 on the shore. Do you know anything about that ! A. No. There are 

 some that have gone there. I do not know what they are doing. 



Q. You don't know the facts ? A. No. 



Q. Do you know how long it takes to go over from where our cod fish- 

 ermen generally fish on the banks to St Pierre, the French island T A. 

 There is no great difference between that and St. John's. It is very 

 trifling. A vessel fishing on the southern part of the Bank would 

 be likely to go into St. Pierre about as quick as from the northern part 

 into St. John's. St. Peter's is something westward of St. John's, on the 

 south coast of Newfoundland, and the Bank extends northeast and 

 southwest, which would bring it about the same distance. It is just 

 about 100 miles from where our fishermen fish on the Bank to St. John's. 



By Mr. Whiteway: 



Q. You say you have now seven vessels cod-fishing ? A. Yes. 



Q. How long have you been carrying on the cod fishery? A. Well. I 

 commenced about twenty-five years ago, I think. I was engaged in the 

 bay fishing mostly the first part. 



Q. Your cod-fishing is principally in the gulf and on the Banks T A. 

 It is pretty much altogether on the Banks. 



Q. Well, it is very profitable fishery, is it not! A. Sometimes it is 

 very profitable. 



Q. Upon the whole, it is a very profitable business ! A. Well, I can't 

 say it is a very profitable business. We make a living. 



Q. A very good one? A. We make a living. 1 never got rich; I 

 never got independent. 



Q. Provincetown is a very respectable town. It is principally bum 

 up by the bankers, is it not ? A. No, sir. Our whaling business, I 

 think, brings more money than the bankers. 



Q. Well, how long was it since your vessels first went into the I 

 provinces, into Newfoundland, for fresh bait? A. Well, I gueas al* 

 three years ago. 



Q. They have continued to go ever since! A. lea, tl 

 two years to my certain knowledge. 



Q. Three years, then, they have gone! A. I think it likely tl 

 have, some of them ; not before three years ago. 



Q. You have spoken of those vessels the Chanticleer, the Sp all, 

 the Lizzie W. Mattheson, the Arthur Clifford, the Gertrude, and 

 E. Davis and you have given us an account of their voyages, am 

 has been realized as far as you have heard from them for the pn 



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Q. Can 'you give the results of the several voyages tot yeai 

 year before!-!. I could not; I haven't the figures. But there * 

 three of them that got half fares-between 800 and UOO quur . j, 



Q. The three others-what about them !- A. The I, 

 last year. I had five on the Banks last year. The otl 



-naine the five !-A. Well, take out Liizie W. Mattbe- 

 son and the big one ; that leaves five. ^i^n i A I had 



Q. You take out Lizzie W. Mattheson and the Speedwel 



