AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 2075 



Q. Were you agent or owner? A. I was agent and part owner. 



Q. What was her tonnage ? A. 73 tons. 



Q. How did she do ? A. Very small. 



Q. Do you remember the catch ! A. 120 barrels. She didn't go at 

 the first of the season. 



Q. Do you mean you think she was too late ! A. No ; she wa in 

 time to get a full fare, but the fish were scarce and she didn't aoeoeed. 



Q. Do you know where she went ? A. No. 



Q. Have you since that time been fishing at all T A. No. 



Q. You tit out both codfish and mackerel vessels ! A. Yes. 



Q. Your cod-fishing vessels are fitted out in the spring T A. Ye*, 



Q. What time do they go off? A. Early in May. 



Q. To the Grand Bank ? A. Yes ; and the Bay St. Lawrence. 



Q. Where do the mackerel vessels go ? A. They go down on our 

 coast in the fall. After the cod-fishing voyage is done they land their 

 codfish and go mackereling. Part of them do that. The small ones do. 



Q. The bigger ones are laid up ? A. They go for oysters. 



Q. How do these vessels do that fish off the American coast T How 

 have they succeeded for some years past ? A. They do a very fair bus- 

 iness. 



Q. Well, do you send many vessels into the bay mackereling now ? 

 A. Not any. 



Q. How long since you gave up ? A. J have sent none since 1S6'.. 



Q. Do you find they do better off the American coast than in the bay 

 fishing? A. I think they do. That is the reason I send them. 



Q. How far does that opinion prevail in your town ? A. It is pretty 

 general. 



Q. Is that shown by their action? A. Yes; very few go into the 

 bay. 



' Q. Now, you have had of Iat6 years how many cod-fisherman in your 

 own employ ;- vessels I mean ? A. I had three at the Grand Bank, ami, 

 one part of the time, two in the bay and two that fished shore-fishing on 

 our own coast. 



Q. For the last how many years ? A. Two years. 



Q. You have had three on the Grand Bank, two cod fishing in the 

 bay, and one or two fishing on the American coast ? A. Yes. 



Q. Now, take your two cod-fishermen in the bay, where do they get 

 their bait Do they take it from home ! A. No ; they carry net* 

 herring nets. 



Q. Are they fastened to the vessel or let out ! A. Both. 

 a quantity, more than they can let out. 



Q. They fasten them to the stern of the vessel ! 

 them, and some they anchor off. 



Q. They catch their own bait? A. Yes. 



Q. They catch it where they catch the codfish ? A. \ea. 



Q. Now, speaking of the two you send in the bay, their 

 caught off shore ? A. Yes; on Bradley and Orphan, and at I 

 lens early in the year. 



Q. Now, what bait do they catch ? A. Herring. 



Q. Is that bait sufficient for them ? A. Yes; lormerly thev 

 mackerel ; of late years they could not get much macken 



Q. Do these cod fishermen in the bay, of late years, n 

 and line, or trawls ? A. Trawls altogether. 



Q. They don't run in to buy any bait f--A No. Karl.v 

 they bait at the Magdalen Islands. After that they 

 grounds where they are fishing. 



