2160 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Q. Where did you go then ? A. Down the Bay of Fundy, off Mount 

 Desert. 



Q. You were fishing for mackerel ? A. Yes. 



Q. You did not go to the Gulf of St. Lawrence ? A. Not then. 



Q. When did you make your next voyage ? A. In the Spring of 1828 

 on this coast, cod -fishing. 



Q. What did you do in your next voyage ? A. In 1829 I was cod- 

 fishing during the latter part of the season in the Bay of St. Lawrence. 



Q. Was there any such thing then known as mackerel-fishing in the 

 bay as an occupation ? A. I do not recollect that anything of the sort 

 was then done. 



Q. What did you then mostly use for bait ? A. We caught mackerel 

 to use as bait for codfish. 



Q. What did you do from 1829 to 1833 ? A. I was then fishing on 

 our own coast. 



Q. For what ? A. Cod and hake, 



Q. What sort of luck did you have f A. We did what was consid- 

 ered then a fair business. 



Q. Where did you go in 1833 ? A. Into the Bay of St. Lawrence cod- 

 fishing. 



Q. What did you do from 1833 to 1847 ? A. From 1833 to 1847 I was 

 fishing for the larger portion of the time on our own coast, and I also 

 made one or two foreign trading voyages during that time. 



Q. Did you go to the Grand Banks during that period ? A. I was 

 there in 1835 and in 1844. 



Q. When did you make your first mackerel voyage ? A. In 1847, I 

 think, to the Bay of St. Lawrence. 



Q. How many barrels did you catch ? A. I was in a very small ves- 

 sel. I do not think she would have held more than 150 barrels, and we 

 got, I believe, about 100 barrels. 



Q. Did you get them inshore or offshore ? A. Well, we caught them 

 off shore. 



Q. What did you do in 1848 ? A. I went one trip to the bay, mack- 

 erel-fishing. 



Q. What were the results? A. We got about 90 barrels. 1 think, in 

 the same vessel in which I was the year before. In 1849 and 1850 I was 

 not fishing. I did not go fishing from 1848 to 1852, when I went one 

 trip in the fall. 



Q. Were you always during the latter part of this period interested in 

 vessels ? A. Well, I had a small interest in two or three different ves- 

 sels, I think, up to 1852. 



Q. The last year you went fishing to the bay you went for mackerel ? 

 A. Yes. 



Q. That was in 1852? A. Yes 5 I left on that trip about the latter 

 part of August. 



Q. How much did you get? A. About 250 barrels. 



Q. Wherte? A. The larger portion of them we took broad off North 

 Cape, P. E. Island, and toward Bank Bradley. 



Q. How much do you think you caught off Bank Bradley ? A. Nearly 

 200 barrels. 



Q. Where did you catch the other 50 barrels ? A. We made a good 

 catch one morning down off Margaree. The men on board, I believe, 

 thought we were then rather inside of the 3-mile range, but I was in- 

 clined to think that we were not. 



Q. Is it not difficult to determine that question ? A. Yes. 



Q. Why ? A. When you are near or in sight of high land, you al- 



