2094 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



By Mr. Davies : 



Q. What is the name of the vessel ? A. North Gape. 



Q. What was the size of the vessel ? A. Fifty-five tons, carpenter's 

 ton u a gfe. 



Q. How many should she have taken ? A. Six hundred quintals. 



Q. How many did you get ? A, Four hundred and seventy-five 

 s. quintals. 



Q. That same year ? A. Yes. 



Q. Without getting any bait except what you caught on the banks ? 

 A. Yes. 



Q. Fishing with trawls or hand-lines ? A. Trawls. 



Q. Entirely? A. Yes. 



Q. Were you captain ? A. No. 



Q. Who was captain ? A. Jesse Wyley. 



Q. What year was it ? A. Eighteen hundred and fifty-nine. 



Q. Is Jesse Wyley here ? A. No. 



Q. Will he be here? A. I don't know. 



By Mr. Foster : 



Q. W r here is he? A. He is in Province-town. 



Q. How much would you have made if you had got 600 quintals ? 

 A. Probably we would have made 8300 apiece. 



Q. The additional quintals would have been chiefly profit ? A. Yes. 

 Q. Did you get any wages besides the $oO ? A. No. 

 Q. You only got your amount as sharesman ? A. Yes. 



By Sir Alexander Gait : 



Q. In regard to those vessels you send to the Grand Banks, do they 

 fish with trawls or with hooks and lines ? A. We send them to fish, 

 some with trawls and some with hand-lines. 



Q. It has been stated before us that trawls require fresh bait ; has 

 that been your experience ? A. It is better to have fresh bait. 



Q. Witnesses have told us that with trawls the bait lies on the bot- 

 tom, and if it is not fresh the fish will not take it. A. They will not 

 take it as well as fresh bait, but they will take it if they cannot get any- 

 thing else, and if they cannot get fresh bait. 



By Mr. Davies : 



Q. If they can get fresh bait the fish will not take salt bait ? A. If 

 there is no fresh bait they will take salt bait. 



By Sir Alexander Gait : 



Q. The trawlers go to Newfoundland for fresh bait; are those the 

 only vessels ? A. Yes. 



Q. Those that fish with hooks and lines are fitted for that particular 

 mode of fishing and don't go ? A. Yes. 



By Hon. Mr. Kellogg : 



Q. What bait did you speak of as being taken from fish; what part is 

 taken, and how much is the amount? A. If we fish with trawls, we some- 

 times cut out the entrails of fish and what we call the pope and then at 

 times we cut up small halibut for bait. 



Q. You use the inside parts of fish ? A. Yes ; halibut entrails are 

 considered very good bait. 



Q. In regard to bird bait, what birds do you catch ?^A. Haglet, and 

 what we used to call Mother Carey's Chickens. 



Q. And gulls ? A. Very seldom. 



