2150 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Q. How many trips did you make? A. We made only one that year. 



Q. What was your catch and where was it taken? A. It was 343 

 barrels, caught wholly at the Magdalen Islands. 



Q. What did you do in 1874 ? A. I was in the John Storey, jr. We 

 made one trip that year. It was taken partly to the nor'ard and partly 

 down Prince Edward Island. 



Q. What sort of a trip did you make ? A. It was a small one 150 

 or 160 barrels, I think. 



Q. What did you do in 1875 ? A. I did not do anything that year. 

 In 1876 I was in the gulf, in the Jamestown, 69 tons. We made a 

 broken trip, catching 126 barrels, of which 90 odd were taken at the 

 Magdalen Islands and the remainder about East Point between that 

 and Fisherman's Bank. 



Q. This was all your fishing in the Gulf of St. Lawrence? A. Yes. 



Q. Have you had any experience in mackerel-fishing on the coast of 

 the United States? A. I fished there one year only; this was in 1872. 



Q. What sort of a trip did you make ? A. I made different trips, and 

 packed during the season 530 barrels. I made short trips. 



Q. A great deal of fishing is done from Gloucester, on the United 

 States coast ? A. Yes. 



Q. You have had some opportunity of forming an opinion, from your 

 own experience in the gulf and on the American coast and from that 

 of your neighbors, and how do you think that the gulf and United 

 States coast fisheries compare? A. I do not suppose that they differ a 

 great deal ; but of late the comparison is in our favor as to the shore 

 fishery, though years ago the gulf mackerel ruled higher than our shore 

 mackerel. Still I should not suppose that there is any great difference 

 between them. 



Q. Do you think that tlie American coast fishery affords ample room 

 for the successful prosecution of the fishing business for those who go 

 there? A. Yes. 



Q. It is, besides, less costly fishing than fishing in the gulf? A. I pre- 

 sume that it is. There is not so much time wasted on our coast in 

 making trips. 



Q. With your experience of the Gulf of St. Lawrence fishery, do you 

 consider that the privilege of fishing within the 3-mile limit there is of 

 any great value to us? I do not now refer to the Magdalen Islands, but 

 to the rest of the coast. A. I do not: judging from my own experience 

 and the amount of fish that I caught inshore, I do not think that exclu- 

 sion from fishing within the 3-mile limit would keep me out of the gulf 

 any year when I felt disposed to go there. 



Q. As a matter of profit as concerns your industry, you would rather 

 have the restoration of the $2 duty on the fish that comes from abroad 

 to compete with yours than the privilege of coming inshore in British 

 waters to fish ? A. Yes. 



Q. Has the number of mackerel-fishing vessels in the Gloucester fleet 

 increased or decreased since you have been engaged in the fishing busi- 

 ness ? A. That is a difficult question to answer. I do not know that it 

 has varied any. 



Q. I mean vessels employed entirely in the gulf mackerel fishery ? 

 A. O, that has diminished vastly. 



Q. How many mackerel-fishing vessels from Gloucester do you sup- 

 pose are in the gulf this year? A. I should say that there are 50. 



Q. And within your experience what has been the number which has 

 come up to the gulf? A. I have been there when from our port there 



