AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMJ4J8SION. |] ', 



Q. When you make the estimate of one-half as caught within the lim- 

 its, do you mean to include the fish you took while drifting off. A. Ye*. 



Q. Whether within three or five miles of the lain) T A. I include 

 one-half of the 220 as being caught while standing in and drifting off. 



Q. How far oft 1 did you drift ? A. Perhaps three or four mile* at the 

 most. 



Q. And do you include in the one-half the fish you took when JOB 

 drifted out four miles ? A. Yes. 



Q. What makes you say one half; do you remember the quantity 

 exactly? A. No; but I think to the best of my judgment, speaking on 

 oath, that one-half of the fish which we then caught back of the iMaud 

 were taken within the bounds. 



Q. Are you speaking from memory alone! A. Yes; I wan not cap- 

 tain of the vessel at the time. 



Q. Might the proportion be two-thirds or three-quarters ! A. It 

 was one-half, as near as my recollection goes. I would just an noon 

 swear that it was one-third as two-thirds. It was not over one-half or 

 less than half. 



Q. And where did you obtain the others ? A. Farther off shore : and 

 we caught 100 barrels this trip on Bank Bradley. 



Q. Do you distinctly remember that all of those 100 barrels were 

 taken off Bank Bradley ? A. The number was about 100. We alter* 

 wards came over to and fished at the island. 



Q. Did you fish any that year towards Margaree ? A. No. 



Q. Did you ever fish along the Cape Breton coast T A. Yes ; during 

 my first year, 1851, I did. 



Q. When you fished along the Cape Breton coast, between Margin* 

 and Cheticamp, did you ever catch a fish outside of the three-Bile 

 limit? A. I never caught any within the three-mile limit off tbe Cape 

 , Breton coast. We caught all* our fish in that quarter outside of Mar- 

 garee, probably from 5 to 6 or 7 miles off the CajM) Breton shore; but 

 while drifting off Margaree which lays 2jf or 3 miles from the coast- 

 and down by Margaree Island perhaps we caught from 20 to 40 or 50 

 barrels. 



Q. And not more ? A. Yes. 



Q. Is it not the fact that nearly all the fish taken along i 

 Breton shore, between Margaree and Cheticamp, are OMgni 

 one, one and a half, and two miles of the shore !- 

 about Margaree was coufined to that fall.; we only fished there f 

 or four or five days, late in the fall of 1851, so that I am 

 petent judge in this matter. 



Q. And how many fish did you take there !- 

 twenty barrels. It was then late in October. 



Q. And vour impression is that you were four or I 

 garee ?-A. Yes ; we drifted down and fished. Probubl 

 the island we might have got some fish within the i 

 but not over fifty barrels during the trip. 



Q. How far from Margaree were the balance taken !- 

 from four to eight miles off, as near as I am ji 



Q. You are quite sure that the balance won caught I 



"Q/How^ylould that be f-A. Taking 50 from 



think. * v 



Q. And you took them all within three or four day* -A. 1 

 Q. Have you a clear and distinct recollection of that! 



