AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. J . , 



your life in the bay, except a few round the Magdalen lalamU T A. I 

 don't recollect. 



Q. Have you caught any mackerel in the bay within 5. or 7 

 of the shore? A. I might probably. 



Q. But what is the probability t A. I don't think it i* very probthle. 



Q. If you never caught any mackerel inshore at the bay. how can yoa 

 tell whether they are eel-grass mackerel f A. From what I have MM 

 brought home in vessels. 



Q. How did you kuow where they were taken ! A. UecauM tliey 

 told me where they had taken the fish. 



Q. Whole cargoes ? A. No. 



Q. Did they select particular fish us those caught witbiu the limit* 

 and others as caught outside ! A. Inshore and oil shore. 



Q. They can tell whether the mackerel have been taken in.Hhore or 

 off shore? A. Yes. 



Q. They can select the fish taken within the limits ! A. Ye*. I am 

 speaking about inshore fish. 



Q. What do you call inshore ? A. Five, six, seven, or eight nilM 

 out. 



Q. Do yon come before the Commission as an expert pMMMing a 

 knowledge of the fishing business and of fish T A. Xo. 



Q. Do you represent yourself before the Commission as a gentleman 

 who has a knowledge of the mackerel fishery ? A. I was born and 

 brought up to fishing, and followed it up to 1853 from the time 1 w . 

 nine years old. 



Q. Do you represent yourself as such ? A. I don't represent myself to 

 be a great expert; but I may be a common-fisherman expert, and i kuow 

 about as much as any good fisherman who has common tteoae and a 

 knowledge of the fisheries. 



' Q. You never caught mackerel within the limits and yet you venture 

 the opinion that fish caught within one, two, three, or lour mileit of (be 

 shore are eel-grass fish ? A. Yes. 



Q. And not so good as others? You make that statement, and wwh 

 to have it taken down ? A. Yes. 



Q. I don't speak with regard to the American coast, where, I under- 

 stand, you catch mackerel 15, 20, and 30 miles out T--A. Yea ; 100 miles. 



Q. The fish are not close to your shore? A. Yea. 



Q. How close ? A. Near to the rocks. 



Q. From 100 miles out to the rocks inshore ? A. At time*. 



Q. Generally ? A. 1 have caught them one hundred inilea out ami 

 have caught them in the surf. 



Q. You call those fish caught inshore eel-grass t 

 sell as well ? A. Yes. 



Q. How far out are the eel-grass fish caught ? 

 freys, about fifteen miles off from Cape Ann. 



Q. The mackerel caught within fifteen miles of shor 

 character? A. Yes. 



Q. Are they known as eel grass fish ?--A. They n 



Q. All the witnesses, especially American lishermeu, w 

 as such ? A. That is, inshore fish. 



Q. Fishermen will kuow what I refer to when I 

 fish? A. Yes; those coming from our i>ort. 



Q. Don't you kuow that mess mackerel are taken . 

 and that no mess mackerel are taken more than three i 

 shore ? A. I don't know it. 



