AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 2155 



Q. Then, so far as you personally are concerned, the tilth caught 

 Margaree are taken in the proportion of three quartern irmide mid 

 quarter outside of the 3-mile limit; and that, and that alone, ha 

 your experience ? A. That is my experience. 



Q. In 1865, you went in the same vessel. When? did you tbrn g*t 

 your first trip ? A. At the Magdalen Islands. 



Q. With the same result as during previous years? A. I prcntim* M>. 



Q. You did not fish on Bank Bradley at all ! A. Not on mv flmt Ihn 

 the second year. 



Q. And during your second trip that year you caught Home off Nottb 

 Cape and some ou Bank Bradley. How far on" North Cape wan it ! A. 

 I think I caught my second trip, in 1805, at the Magdalen Island*. and 

 J think 1 stated so : but if I did not do so there, I caught them off North 

 Cape. 



Q. You are not sure where you took them : but if you H.nhed .it North 

 Cape, how far off from it were you ? A. 1 think I stated that I (Uhctl *t 

 the Magdalen Islands on that trip, and I think I said so; but lh.it ban 

 nothing to do with it. My memory is bad. 



Q. You do not recollect where you caught that second trip! A. I 

 think now that I caught one trip in that vessel about North ('ipe; hot 

 I cannot exactly say whether it was that trip or a trip in the ensuing 

 year. 



Q. If 3'ou caught them at North Cape, can you tell what YOU took in- 

 side and what outside of 3 or -4 miles from the shore T A. In that CAM 

 I caught a small proportion of the trip inside the limits. 



Q. When you fished off Prince Edward Island, was it your practice t 

 run iu and drift, off? A. If the wind was oft' shore, I .would do no; but 

 if the wind was inshore, I would not. 



' Q. You do not fish inshore at Prince E.lward Island with an Inshore 

 wind? A. No. 



Q. Is it not a fact that 5 days out of during the fishing M*aa 

 wind there blows offshore T A. That was not the case when I Vttlben 

 The little I have been there was usually in September. Then the wrath 

 sets in blowy and it gets blustery. You are as likely to get the wind I 

 the northwest as from the southwest at this time in my ex|H'rirn< 

 Where I was one could fish, I think, as well with a northwest 

 it was from the southwest. 



Q. You do not mean to say that you fished within the :i 

 shore with a north west wind ? A. I could do so down at 



Q. And I dare say you have done so f A. I do not i 

 ularly of having done so. 



Q. Have you ever fished off Georgetown !- 

 of. I have not fished nearer it than on Fisherman s 



Q. That is about 7 miles from East Point ?--A. I think i 

 that, but I do not remember the exact distance. 



Q. When you spoke of having taken your third trip t 

 the Magdalen Islands and Cape Breton, did yon mean , t 

 them off North Cape, C. B, or between the Magdalen I. 

 garee, or partly in one place and party in another !- 

 tween Entry Island and Cheticamp, or between that an. 



Q. How far offshore are the fish generally taken nix: 

 A. Farther off than about Margaree. 



Q. How far off f-A. When I speak of fishing innhor 

 from 3 to 5 and 8 miles from the shore. rb u 



Q. How far off shore have you been accustomed t 

 camp ? A. From 2 to 8 and 9 miles. 



