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during the last seven or eight years ? A. No amount of lUh were o 

 caught 1 am speaking with respect to Wellfleet. 



Q. You would not like to extend that statement to other (Uhing porU 

 in the United States, would you ! A. I have no Ktutitics tSSSS 

 those ports, and I do not know anything about that I am r 

 my own native place. 



Q. And Wellfleet possesses but a very small proportion of the Ameri- 

 can fishing fleet? A. It has a small proportion of it as to number, bat 

 we all have large vessels. 



Q. Give me the number of your vessels that frequented the bay dur- 

 ing the last six, seven, or eight years. A. I cannot do so nave for the 

 two years and this season. One vessel has gone each year to the bay 

 from our port during this time. 



Q. It was because very few vessels came down here that you said the 

 gulf fisheries were of no account to you f A. Of court*?. 



Q. Has any great number of vessels ever come from Welltleet to the 

 bay? A. I stated previously that within the last seven, eight, or -too 

 years I thought that perhaps 8 or 10 vessels had come over here; and 

 that is as near as I can remember. 



Q. Your vessels that came here never really amounted to anything in 

 number? A. Not during that time. 



Q. Did they do so at any time? A. Perhaps the number really 

 amounted to something some years, but I could neither tell you Uie 

 years nor the numbers. 



Q. Over the years to which your information extend:) there never 

 was a time when the Wellfleet fishermen sent any number of veatala 

 to our bay ? A. No more than what I have stated, to the beat of tny 

 recollection. 



Q. Do you think the Gulf of St. Lwrence fisheries are of any value 

 > to the Americans, as a whole ? A. If a man goes to any place and geU 

 a trip of mackerel, that is of some value to him, |H.*rhaps; but 1 do not 

 say but that he might have staid at home and done as well or a It 

 better. 



Q. What brings the Americans to our waters, then !- 

 my reasons as to the mackerel-fishermen, and I do not know anything 

 about the cod fishermen. 



Q. Have you heard any statement made by any j>erson r.*p<* 

 the bay fishery, or about the fisheries anywhere, as being v^lual 

 you? A. No: never. 



Q. And you would be very much surprised if that turn 

 fact ? A. Yes : I should. 



Q. You do not think that they are of any value at all 

 I say that they are of no account at all to my place. 



Q. Can you give me the name of any IHTSOU of 

 Island or Nova Scotia or New Brunswick who was among t 

 any one of vour vessels f A. I do not know as 

 about one-half of the crews belonged to these provinces, & 

 tell their names. 



: &3S5?**Ei* ..... ,- ,. *.*,. -A. 



Only one vessel of our fleet is there this year. 



Q. What is her name ?-A. The Ruth E. >e*comt> 

 Q. With regard to the statistics you mentioned 



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