2114 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Q. Do you mean to embrace in your statistics the vessels which go 

 to the Banks? A. Yes; I include the mackerel and cod fishers. 



Q. In the 1,300 you included the Bank fishers? A. Yes; from the 

 United States. 



Q. The figures given in the annual report of the Chief Bureau of Sta- 

 tistics for the commerce and navigation of the United States make 

 your figures 1,300 about 1,000 vessels astray. The number of American 

 and cod-fishing vessels under and over 20 tons down to June 30, 1876, 

 is given as 2,311. A. I meant registered vessels. 1 did not refer to 

 boats. I included vessels over 20 tons, and those under that figure are 

 not registered. 



Q. But out of the 1,300 you deducted 200 or 300 small vessels. A. 

 Yes ; such as were not fit to come to the bay. It would not be either 

 profitable or prudent to come here in a vessel of less than 50 or 60 tons. 



Q. What is the tonnage of these 200 or 300 vessels which remain on 

 the coast ? A. It varies from 20 to the figures just mentioned. 



Q. You do not embrace in your gross number any vessels under 20 

 tons? A. No; I meant registered vessels, and they are not registered 

 when under 20 tons. 



Q. I cannot conceive how it is that you cannot remember the names 

 of some of the persons from Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, or 

 Nova Scotia who were with you during some of the years you men- 

 tion. A. I can not remember their surnames; I can only recollect that 

 they were called Peter, John, and Bill, &c. 



Q. You surely can remember one name. A. I cannot. I have not 

 thought of it before, and that being so, this is a poor place to do so iu. 

 Honestly, I could not now state the name of one solitary man. 



No. 13. 



DANIEL C. NEWCOMB, of Wellfleet, Massachusetts, master-mariner 

 and fisherman, called ou behalf of the Government of the United States, 

 sworn and examined. 

 By Mr. Dana : 



Question. You belong to Wellfleet, and are 53 years of age ? Answer. 

 Yes. 



Q. That is your native place, by the way ? A. Yes. 



Q. How long have you been a fisherman ? A. 38 seasons. 



Q. You are now in commerce ? A. No, I am working ou a wharf, 

 packing. 



Q. When did you first go into the Bay of St. Lawrence? A. In 1838. 



Q. Did you catch anything then ? A. We got iu late in the summer 

 and the catch was small. We only got eight barrels. We were there 

 a month and returned. 



Q. Then wuat did you do the rest of the season! A. We fished 

 around Cape Cod. 



Q. You got how much ? A. 300 barrels. 



Q. That was between Cape Ann and Cape Cod ? A. Yes. That was 

 what we supposed to be the catch. I was very young and didn't know 

 much about it. 



Q. Now, in '39, did you go into the bay ? A. I did. 



Q. Did you do mucli ? A. We had about the same success as in the 

 preceding year. 



Q. That was rather poor. Did you do any shore-fishing ? A. We 

 did. 



