AWARD OF THE FIHHERY COMMI88IOK 



at Port Hood, and traded for them. He came through Caiwo i 

 ported he had that many. He is Captain Pool. 

 Q. September 12. B. F. Somes, 100 barrel*, refitted for Mcoud irpf- 



Q. September 13. Harvest Home, 23T> barrel*, rvflUvd for * 

 trip? A. Yes. 



Q. September 13. Etta Gott, 225 barrels, refitted for mxond inn f 

 A. Yes. 



Q. September 14. George B. Loriug, 230 barrels, rwflued for 

 trip ? A. Yes. 



Q. September 18. S. L. Mayo, 150 barrels, refitted for mjcoiid trip ! 

 A. Yes. You have skipped those vessels which have uot got auy. 



Q. I am reading from the return. A. Is the Ellen Croaby nifutmocd 

 there? That is one which did not get anything. 



Mr. FOSTER. What is the list you are reading from ? 



Mr. DAVIES. From a return of vessels reported from the Gut of Caaso. 



Q. I understood you to say that you knew those vesselM, and that iic 

 quantities were correct ? A. Yes, as far as what the owner* told me. 



Q. The Cape Ann Advertiser of September 20 says : 



Our correspondent at Port Mulgrave writes under the date of lat Mno>ly a* WV> 

 " Since my last there have been several arrivals from thu bay with <li*oounMrn & IM 

 lately the news has been more encouraging. The following arrival* ar report**! : lfck* 

 Etta Gott, -226 bbls. mackerel ; Harvest Home, 2:d ; Georgo B. Loring. X 

 Low, two trips, 350; Benjamin F. Somos, 100; Idelln Small, of IWr Itl*. 

 mackerel are large and fat. The Harvest Home and Gcorgw B. looting took ifc**r t*n 

 Chaleur Bay ; the Etta Gott at Bird Rock. Most of the lleel wen> in t'apr 8*. U*r tUy 

 on Saturday, doing well ; the George S. Low took 4o wash barrels thai Jajr. 



WITNESS. Those are about ten or fifteen vessels out of fteveotj 

 sail. 



Q. There are 75 sail from Gloucester in the bay ?--A. Yea ; that 

 been there this year. 



Q. I see you have given the, Vulcan's catch as a |>oor oo?; hc r 

 turned early in August? A. Some time in August. 



Q. You don't expect a vessel to make a suecwwful trip that earij 

 A. She was gone long enough to make a good trip. 



Q. Have you heard lately, within the last fortnight, whatomW 

 made by your vessels in the bay ? A. No. 



Q. You would not undertake, then, to say whet! 

 good or not ? A. No. 



Q. When the question in regard to imposing a duty on 

 was put to you, you seemed to have a pretty stron 

 would prefer to have that duty imposed, would yoiiT- 

 *- Q. In regard to herring, you want to have the hen 

 furred from British to American bottoms and if 'a duty 

 would drive British vessels out of the trade ? 

 them, because the duty would be about as inurh an the hen 



Q. Has there ever been a duty on fresh hernng f- 

 herring we get at the Magdalen Islands in spn 



Q. Are they salt herring f-A. \\enevergotany 

 We get our frozen herring at Newfoundland, in 1- 



Q Would you suggest that a duty should lie plaoed i 

 A. No ; there never was a duty on fresh hern ig. 



duty on mackerel ? A. Yes. 

 Q. You speak as a fisherman .A. 1 



