2184 AWARD OF THE FISHEEY COMMISSION. 



Q. How many vessels have you had come to the bay for mackerel 

 since you organized your firm, which is ten years ? A. This year we have 

 five ; one went out and the other four are there now. We haven't heard 

 from them since they went away. 



Q. What became of the one you had there that went out ? A. She 

 went fishing on our shores ; that is the Falcon. 



Q. How many did she bring from the bay ? A. One hundred and ten 

 barrels, packed. 



Q. Do you know what she has done on our coast ? A. I don't know. 



Q. Now, how many vessels have you fishing this year on the American 

 coast ? A. Well, they have all been fishing there some time of the sea- 

 son. They have fished there until August, and then gone into the bay. 

 The Falcon went into the bay in July, and the other two in August. 

 They have all been on our coast since April. 



Q. How many have been in the bay for mackerel this year? A. There 

 are five of them have been in the bay, but ten went south mackereling, 

 seining, and then came home. Three of them left and went into the 

 bay, and then those other ones (two) that went to the West Indies came 

 and went to the bay. That makes five in the bay. 



Q. What has been the result of the mackerel voyages to the gulf 

 made by your vessels since you have been in business ? A. They have 

 done pretty poorly. One year they did very well. The next year after 

 the year I knocked off they did very well. Since that they have been 

 dwindling away until we have had only one there last year. They 

 knocked off and went seining on our own coast. 



Q. How many did you have the year before last? A. I think only 

 one. I think for the last three years they all knocked off and went 

 seining, but that one,. and she never had a seine. 



Q. Now, generally, what have been the results of the mackerel ves- 

 sels on the American shores since you have been in the business ? A. 

 Well, some of our vessels have done very well. They have always paid 

 their bills on our own shores and cleared a little more. 



Q. I believe you had one particularly profitable seining voyage last 

 year? A. Yes. 



Q. What was that f A. We cleared $5,000. That was the Mary 

 Odell. 



Q. How long was she doing it ? A. She began the last of April, and 

 knocked off about the first of November. 



Q. Do you remember how many trips ? A. No ; we could not tell, 

 because she ran them fresh to Boston and New York. We didn't pack 

 any of them hardly. 



Q. Now take your vessels that have gone to the Gulf of St. Lawrence 

 this year ; name them. A. The Wild Fire, the Colonel Cook, the Bat- 

 tler, the Griffin. 



Q. That only makes four. The other one you gave previonsly ? A. 

 The Falcon. The Griffin we don't own. She fits with us. We find her 

 barrels and provisions. 



Q. What is the tonnage of your schooners ? A. Well, the Wild Fire 

 is 108 tons, the Rattler 8U, the Colonel Cook abjut 66, I think, the Fal- 

 con 71. 



Q. I will not bother you with details of price, because we have those 

 in a more compact form. But generally, how many mackerel ought 

 one of those vessels, a vessel of that size, to catch in order to make a 

 paying voyage ? A. Well, it is all owing to the price. 



Q. Would the mackerel average $10 a barrel, cleaned and packed ? 

 A. No, not this year. 



