2096 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Q. Did you go south that year ? A. Yes ; and got from 100 to 150 

 barrels. 



Q. When did you get to the gulf ? A. Somewhere about the very last 

 of June or the 1st of July. I was not captain at the time, and I cannot 

 be very exact on the point. 



Q. What was your catch ? A. Three hundred and twenty barrels ; 

 we filled the vessel. 



Q. Where did you get them ? A. As well as my memory serves me, 

 we caught 100 barrels on Bank Bradley. We procured the balance in 

 the Bight of Prince Edward Island, from North Cape down to St. Peter's 

 and New London. 



Q. Was this within the three-mile limit? A. No, not all ; part of 

 them were taken within it, and part of them without. 



Q. What proportion of the 220 were taken within the three-mile 

 limit ? A. Well, I should think, likely one-half. 



Q. That would be 110 ! A. Yes ; that is the case as near as I can 

 judge. 



Q. What did you then do ? A. We went home and fished on our 

 shore. 



Q. What did you catch there ? A. About 200 barrels. 



Q. And where did you fish the next year, 1853 ! A. On our shore. 



Q. What did you get ? A. About 700 barrels, I think. 



Q. And in 1854? A. I was then in the George C haddock. We caught 

 somewhere between 800 and 1,000 barrels on our shore. 



Q. And in 1855 ? A. I was then in the bay on the George Chaddock, 

 Captain Deguire. I was in this schooner during these three years. 



Q. In 1855, what did you get in the bay? A. 240 barrels. 



Q. Within the limits ? A. To the best of my recollection, we caught 

 nothing within the limits. We fished over at the Magdalen Islands and 

 off Banks Bradley and Orphan. 



Q. What did you do in 1856 ? A. I was in the George Chaddock, on 

 our shore. 



Q. Entirely? A. Yes; as far as the catch is concerned I could not 

 specify. 



Q. In 1857, what did you do ? A. I was in- the John S. Eagan, Captain 

 Kemp. 



Q. Whereabouts did you fish? A. We first went to the bay aud got 

 325 barrels. 



Q. Where ? A. Some of them back of Prince Edward Island, and 

 others on Bank Bradley and at the Magdalen "Islands. I do not think 

 that we caught any during that trip within the three-mile limit, but we 

 might possibly have so taken &few; still, I cannot say;- 1 cannot be 

 positive on the point. 



Q. What did you do then ? A. We went home, landed our fish, and 

 came into the bay for another trip, when we caught twenty barrels at 

 the Magdalen Islands. 



Q. Did you go right home again ? A. Yes ; and we caught 250 bar- 

 rels after we arrived home. 



Q. What did you do in 1858? A. I was in the schooner Benjamin 

 Baker, Captain Kemp. We went to the bay two trips, ami on our first 

 trip we caught 225 barrels. 



Q. Where ? A. Off North Cape, aud on Banks Bradley and Orphan. 



Q. And whereabouts the second trip ? A. We only then took 35 bar- 

 rels at the Magdalen Islands. 



Q. Where did you go from them ? A. Home, and fished on our shore, 

 catching about 225 barrels. 



