AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 2137 



Q. What makes it safer to fish there'? A. liecaum? when it i coming 

 on windy you can hoist your jib and run round to the lee. 



Q. Was there auy harbor to which you used to reaort for aheller when 

 fishing for mackerel ; if so, what was it ? A. Port Hood late in ihr %.. 

 son j but, as a general thing, I have gone uudtr the let* of Magarrr 

 Island. 



Q. By your statement, the great body of your mackerel have Iwro 

 caught much more than three miles from any shore? A. Ye*. 



Q. Is that true even of your fishing at Magdalen Inland* ? A. Yr; 

 we anchored sometimes under Brydn Island. 



Q. Since 1860 you have not been fishing ? A. No. 



Q. In early life what trade did you learn ? A. Sail-making. 



Q. Did you go to making sails after you quit fishing in 1*60 ? A. 

 Yes. 



Q. Perhaps you can tell the Commission what a suit of nail* for a 

 Gloucester mackerel schooner costs what was the cost before tbe war! 

 A. About $450. 



Q. What does a suit cost now ? A. It costs perhaps more ; about 

 $500. 



Q. How often does a vessel require a new suit of sails, take from the 

 time the vessel is built? A. A vessel comes out this Bea.ton and tbe 

 fall following she must have another set of sails. 



Q. When she gets the second suit of sails does she continue to n*e tbr 

 first suit also ? A. Yes, in the summer season. 



Q. Then she has a summer set and winter set ?--A. Yen. 



Q. Then every two years afterwards she will want a now net 

 Yes. 



Q. How long did you continue in the business of making nails afti 

 you left fishing ? A. Till 1868. 



Q. What have you been doing since? A. I was in tbe t 

 up to within two years ago. 



Q. Have you been interested in fish ing- vessels 



Q. Up to what time? A. Up to the spring of 1S7. 



Q. In how many vessels have you been interested 



Q. And how many owners have there been!- -A. Three pai 

 time, and during the last three years two. 



Q. You sold out the vessels ? A. Yes. 



Q. When T A. In the spring of 1876. 



Q. Between 1868 and 1876, what were those vessels 



ID Q. Where? A. At George's, Western Banks, and Grand Haul 



Q. Forced? A. Yes, and for fresh halibut. 



Q. Were any of those vessels in those years going 

 We made three trips in the bay or for mackerel. 

 year and two vessels went another year. 



Q. Did you make or lose money on those 

 lost money. 



Q. How much f A. I could not tell you. 



Q. Did those vessels lose ? A. Yes. 



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shore in British waters for mackerel as 



