21-88 AWAKD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Q. And if you have not, can you say that the number was incorrect ? 

 A. It is not correct about going out at that time. 



Q. I think the date stands for when she was reported as entering the 

 gulf ? A. I think so. 



Q. Putting the date aside, I ask you if you would undertake to dispute 

 the correctness of this return, if you have no recollection of the catch 

 yourself? A. No more than I packed the mackerel. 



Q. You don't wish to contradict this return ? A. No. 



Q. You think, I understood you to say, that the fishing this year is 

 not very good ? A. Yes. 



Q. Have you been in the gulf yourself? A. No. 



Q. You don't know it from personal knowledge ? A. No more than 

 from vessels that have come home. 



Q. Have you a list of the vessels that have come home and reported 

 at your port ? A. I have got no list. 



Q. Could you state the names of some vessels that have returned, in 

 order to show on what you base your statement ? A. I could tell you 

 some vessels that have come home with small fares. The Vulcan had a 

 small fare. 



Q. What time did she come to the bay? A. She came out of the bay 

 about the last of August ; somewhere about that time. 



Q. What is her size ? A. 71 tons. 



Q. She had only 110 barrels ? A. She packed 110. The William G. 

 Baker came home. I believe she got nothing hardly in the bay. 



Q. Is she one of your vessels 1 A. No; she belongs to the next wharf. 



Q. Can you speak of her catch from personal knowledge ? A. The 

 owner told me she did not have anything. 



Q. I have got here a list of vessels which have returned to Gloucester. 

 On loth August : David F. Low, 190 barrels of mackerel. Do you know 

 her! A. Yes. 



Q. Do you call that very bad ? A. No. 



Q. August 16. J. F. Clarke, 240 barrels. Do you know her ? A. Yes. 



Q. August 17. Hyperion, 240 barrels. Do you know her? A. Yes. 



Q. August 16. Gertie Lewis, 135 barrels. Is that correct ? A. Yes. 



Q. On the same day, Martha C., 250 barrels. Is that correct? A. 

 Yes. 



Q. August 20. George S. Low, 230 first trip and 120 second altogether 

 350 barrels. Is that correct ? A. Yes. I know those vessels, and I 

 know they got those trips ; I know it because the owners told me. 



Q. August 25. Fred Gerring, junior, 230 barrels; refitted and made 

 second trip. Have you received information that she has made a sec- 

 ond trip? A. Y'es. 



Q. Eastern Queen. She has not~got round, I believe, on her second 

 trip; perhaps you can give the numbers? A. I don't know about the 

 second trip. After the first trip she came home with, I think, some 200 

 odd barrels I think about 240 or 250. 



Q. She has made two trips ? A. I never heard that she had made more 

 than one. 



Q. She has not yet completed her second ? A. She is on it. 



Q. August 30. Marion Grimes, 150 barrels. Do you know her ? A. 

 Yes. 



Q. Ocean King, 120 barrels; pat in for repairs. Is that correct! 

 A. Yes. 



Q. John Wesley, 200 barrels? A. The John Wesley bought the mack- 

 erel and did not catch it. The captain told me he bought it from boats 



