AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMI8U1O*. 



Q. Where did you then fish?-A. About all over the !,. 

 not tell you exactly where we got our fish that M-MUI, : mackeM 

 then pretty scarce. I was in the Ohio at the time. 



Q. What was your catch ? A. Two hundred barrel*. 



Q. What proportion of these 200 barrel* wa* taken within thr 



" . ** uiuiLis, i uiiiiK. i lie cutterx were round thrn 



we did not fash inshore at all ; 1 do not know that we got aoT A* to 

 snore tiuit year. 



Q. In what vessel were you in 1850? A. The leading Star 



Q. Where did you fish in her? A. Over at the MuiMalm NUnd* 



Q. What did you catch ? A. Alxnit 230 barrel* 



Q. In what vessel were you in 1857 ? A. The Kllen Franri*, I think 



Q. Whereabouts did you fish ? A. We got them to the nor'*nl of tb 

 Magdalen Islands between there and Bank Orphan. 



Q. In what vessel were you in 1858? A. The Kllen Franci*. 



Q. Where did you fish ? A. We fished some off Point MIIKXMJ. lUok 

 Orphan, and Gaspe Bank. 



Q. During how many years from 1857 on did you fiah in the gulf? 

 You did so in 1858, 1859, and 1800, and up to what time? A. The !** 

 time I was fishing there was iu 1875.; I was not skipper at the tine; 

 but we did not stop in the bay at all that season. 



Q. You fished in the bay in 1858, '9, and 1800, '1, *2, *3. '4, *5, IB, *7, "H, 

 '9, 1870, '1, '2, '3, '4, and '5? A. Yes; but I waa not skipper either In 

 1873 or 1875. 



Q. You were skipper all these years, 1873 and 1.S75. exceplr*! ? A. 

 Yes. 



Q. Without going into the trips particularly, state where you n%brd, 

 when on these trips, as a general rule. A. We caught the bigg*** part 

 of our fish at the Magdalen Islands, and we took about 2UU barrel* dow 

 off Margaree. 



Q. During that time, as your recollection serve* yon, what propor- 

 tion of your fish did you take within the 3-rnile limit ? A. 1 c*mW oo 

 say that we caught more than one-twelfth part there while 1 waa ID ib 

 bay. 



Q. What was the best fishing which you did during that time! 

 We always did our best fishing over at the Magdalen Utand*. 

 high as 140 wash-barrels, or about 125 barrels at one time, and 

 rels during my best trip these years. 



Q. When was that ? A. In 1804. 



Q. In what vessel were you at the time ? A. The (lain 



Q. How many trips did you make that year ?- 

 trip before we lauded 300 barrels in the gut. We cam 

 ourselves. 



Q. And that year you caught 900 barrels 



Q. What was the nearest approach that joii n 

 ing the other years ? A. The next year we got < 



Q. Where were the 900 barrels mostly taken ?- 

 the Magdalen Islands. 



Q. And the next year you caught RiO barrel* 

 about northwest and about 75 mile* from East 



IS Q n< With your experience of the fishing in the (Julf o 

 do you attach much value to the privilege of fll 

 limit l-No ; I do not. I never caught any n*b 



V6 Q. When fishing in the gulf, what was your experience witk nrord 



