2116 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



erel-fishing we do from Block Island down along Cape Cod, Cape Ann, 

 and along our shores down the Bay of Fuudy. 



Q. Then you began in '73 to go into the bay? How much did you 

 catch that year ? A. 250 barrels. 



Q. Where did you catch them ? A. We caught 50 barrels up at the 

 island the first 50. 



Q. What part of the island ! A. St. Peter's. 



Q. Have you any notion whether you caught them all within three 

 miles ? A. No ; I don't mean that. 



Q. How was that? A. 1 should think we might have caught half of 

 them. 



Q. Where were the rest of the 250 barrels taken ? A. 100 barrels off 

 Georgetown Bank. 



Q. That is more than three miles off? A. Yes; that is all outside. 



Q. Where did you catch the rest ? A. At the Magdaleus. 



Q. The next year, 1874, what did you do ? A. I went fishing on our 

 coast next year. 



Q. How much did you take? A. I don't know rightly. I was with 

 another man. I lost my vessel the year before. I think it was 600 bar- 

 rels. 



Q. Off' the American coast I A. Yes. 



Q. What were you doing in '75 ? A. I have not since been to sea as 

 a fisherman. 



Q. You have been putting up fish ? A. Yes. 



Q. You have a wharf? A. Yes. 



Q. Do you know how many barrels you put up in 1875 ? A. 5,500 

 barrels, I think. 



Q. Now, of these 5,500 barrels how many were from the bay ? A. 155 

 headed barrels ; 140 packed barrels. 



Q. Now, in '76 how many did you pack ? A. 11,000. 



Q. How many of these were from the bay ? A. 45 barrels. 



Q. Do you think that the proportion you put up 45 from the bay 

 out of 11,000, and 140 out of 5,500 is a fair sample of the proportion 

 put up in Wellfleet? A. I think that was all the vessels we had from 

 our place. I think there was only one vessel in the bay. 



Q. What is the greatest number of vessels you have ever had in the 

 bay ? A. I would not like to state the number. We had one year al- 

 most all our fishing-fleet there. 



Q. What is your whole fleet ? A. It is now 52 sail. Then, perhaps, 

 it was 80 or 90 sail. The majority went into the bay one year. 



Q. You had as many as 40 or 50 in the bay ? A. I think so. 



Q. Has the bay fishing diminished ? A. Yes, it has, until our folks 

 have become disgusted with it. 



Q. Do you think it is of any practical commercial consequence to your 

 people ? A. Our people never set much store by the privileges of the 

 bay. I never did. 



Q. They show that by their actions. Now, do you think that the coast 

 fishery, as you call it that is, the Georges Banks, off Block Island, Cape 

 Cod, Cape Ann, Massachusetts Bay, and down as far as Eastport do 

 you think that the fishing there of all kinds I mean hook and line, 

 seines, nets, pounds what do you think of that fishery as a means of 

 supplying the American market? A. I don't know hardly how to an- 

 swer. 



Q. Then I will put it more distinctly. Do you think that fishery,'well 

 prosecuted, will supply the American market without the necessity of 



