2202 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



What do you say about that ! A. That is not correct. The vessel was 

 as large as the average then in use. I used to go to Georges Bank in 

 her, and everywhere. I went in her to Georges Bank all the year 

 round, never hauling up in December, January, or at any other time. 



Q. " We found the fish to be very small, though there were a great 

 many in that quarter." How is that ? A. They were small and they 

 fetched a low price. 



Q. " In about four weeks we caught one hundred and ten barrels, and 

 having landed them, we had repairs made, and fitting out, came down 

 the bay, where most of the fleet was." A. That is correct. 



Q. " We fished between Port Hood and Cheticamp." A. That is cor- 

 rect. 



Q. " We made all our trip there, and were about fourteen or fifteen 

 days on that part of the coast." A. That is correct. 



Q. " When we first came to Port Hood we found a cutter in the bay." 

 A. That is correct. 



Q. "A large fleet was there, but we did not mind the cutter or any- 

 thing else." A, That is not correct. 



Q. What part of it is incorrect? A. That which relates to not mind- 

 ing the cutter. We did mind her, for if there had been no cutter there 

 we would have tried inshore. 



Q. Was there a large fleet there ? A. No, not very large. There were 

 about 30 sail of vessels. 



Q. " The captain says, ' I am going to have mackerel.' " Do you re- 

 member that ? A. No ; I do not. 



Q. You perhaps know whether you were likely to tell this young fel- 

 low of 18 or 20 your plans in that way ? A. I did not do so. 



Q. "And we got them anyhow; and we succeeded." What do you say 

 to that ? A. We got 130 barrels and that was all. 



Q. " In a fortnight we had caught two hundred and thirty or forty 

 barrels. We saw the cutter for a few days several times and we kept 

 out of Port Hood Harbor"? A. We never went to Port Hood after we 

 went down. We made harbor at Margaree Island. 



Q. " It seemed to be in the harbor of Port Hood almost every night? ' 

 A. Tes ; she used to go up there every night unless it was very pleas- 

 ant, when she would lay off the island. 



Q. " We anchored under Margaret Island and Cheticamp, and made 

 that a habor"? A. That is correct. 



Q. " We lay under the lee of these places"? A. That is correct. 



Q. " We caught the fish all inshore "? A. That is not correct. 



Q. "There were no mackerel outside the three-mile limit"? A. That 

 is not correct. There were more mackerel inside than outside the limit 

 where the English vessels were, I think. The English vessels would try 

 inshore in the morning, wheu we would bear up and run out, and along 

 about nine or ten o'clock they would come out where we were, and that 

 made me think that there were no mackerel inshore not but that there 

 were plenty of them inshore after the gale. 

 ' Q. " There were not five hundred barrels so caught " ? 



Q. Outside the 3-mile limit ? A. Outside of 2 miles. 



Q. That was in the year 1852? A. Yes. The big mackerel struck into the shore, though 

 there were many small mackerel outside, but nothing save small mackerel about 7 inches in 

 length. 



A. That is wrong. 



Q. " I would say that five hundred barrels of mackerel were not caught 

 by the whole fleet outside " ? A. That is not correct. 

 Q. "We heaved to, and we kept out of the way of the cutter ?" A, We 



