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Q. From all you have heard is it promising or not f-A. There .*m< 

 to be a report since I have been here that it is brighter. Similar ret* 

 come from our own coast. Everything was dark when I came mi 

 Some vessels hadn't landed a fish this season. 



By Mr. Weatherbe : 



Q. You say that your own fisheries are not equal tominpUing the 

 United States market last year! A. This year. I Raid la*i y.-ar I 

 thought they were. 



Q. You thought they were equal to supplying your own market; that 

 is, the whole of your markets. What do you call your market ! \ 

 Well, our market is all over the United States where our railroad* "go." 



By Mr. Dana : 



Q. I meant to include in my question the cod Bank fisheries ? A. I 

 am not posted as to the cod-fisheries at all. 



Q. But in asking you whether our fisheries would supply our market, 

 I meant to include the Bank fisheries? A. I don't know anything of 

 the Bank fisheries. 



By Mr. Weatherbe: 



Q. You answered with reference to your own fisheries alone f A. Ye*. 



Q. You were referring to the home fishery ? A. I understood him to 

 ask me if I thought our American fishery would supply our demand*, 

 and I replied 



Q. You were speaking of the home fishery alone f A. Yes*. 



Q. Are you not astray ? Mr. Dana did not mean that. He meant the 

 cod fishery outside in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and on the Hank* of 

 Newfounland? A. I do not want to touch the cod fishery at all. 1 WZM 

 talking about mackerel. 



Q. And you meant on the United States coast ?--A. I meant the 

 mackerel fishery on the coast last year; that last year I thought, from 

 the price we got for our fish, there was plenty of fish to supply our raw 

 ket. They ruled so low that it was hardly worth while to catrh fUh. 



Q. You are speaking entirely of the mackerel fishery !--A. YPA. I 

 would not talk about the codfish, for I am not acquainted with if 



Q. What do you consider to be the quantity required to supply the 

 United States market? A. I do not know. I don't take the tlgiire* l 

 all. I supposed that if fish were not worth catching on account of the 

 price being so low everybody was supplied. 



Q. Suppose the supply was limited. Suppose other I 

 plenty and they were very scarce, what would your opinion b 

 A. I don't understand the question. 



Q. I understood you now to have stated, or to have mte 

 that your supply of mackerel and cod on the United : 

 sufficient to supply the demand in the United States, all ov 

 States? A. My opinion was that it was last year. 



Q. How do you come to have that opinion? A. When 

 and don't think it worth while to catch fish I assume t 

 supplied. 



Q. Were there any mackerel caught outside of i 



