2208 AWAED OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Q, That is a rather noted fishing ground, is it not? A. Yes, I have 

 tried in there pretty handy. 



Q. Not when the cutters were about, I hope ? A. No, We did not do 

 so then. 



Q. When "the cutters were away, you tried there ? A. When I had a 

 license I tried in there. 



Q. And how did you succeed then ? A. We could not find any mack- 

 erel inshore there, save what the boats catch, and those 1 call eel-grass 

 mackerel. 



Q. But you did not catch them ? A. No. 



Q. Therefore you did not even get eel-grass mackerel there ? A. We 

 did not get any. 



Q. During the years when you had a license you did try in along the 

 West Shore, and were not successful ? A. One year we did so, and one 

 year we did not, catching all our mackerel that season over at the Mag- 

 dalen Islands. 



Q. And the year you tried in there, you did not catch any fish at all ? 

 A. We never caught any fish in there. 



Q. Even when you had a license ? A. No. 



Q. Vessels frequent that fishing ground at times ? A. They go all 

 over the bay. 



Q. You have heard of that place as a fishing-ground ? A. Yes. 



Q. Did you ever try around Prince Edward Island ? A. No, not that 

 year. 



Q. Or any year ? A. Yes, I have tried around Prince Edward Island a 

 good many times. 



Q. We have evidence of the fleet going there to fish up and down the 

 shore of the Island ? A. I never caught but very few mackerel round 

 Prince Edward Island. I took them just in sight of land, ten miles off. 



Q. Did you come nearer to the shore then ten miles ? A. I have hove 

 to within one mile of it, but I never caught any fish. 



Q. You hove to and drifted off? A. Yes. 1 drifted as much as five or 

 six miles off. 



Q. Were other vessels doing the same thing when you were there ? 

 A. Yes. 



Q. Were there many of them ? A. There might have been a dozen 

 or twenty sail. 



Q. Within sight of you ? A. Yes. 



Q. Off what particular part of the island did you try? A. Up be- 

 tween the First and Second Chapel. 



Q. Toward East Point ? A. Yes. The First Chapel is about nine 

 miles from there, and the other is about fifteen miles up. 



Q. I understand that the ground between the First and Second 

 Chapel is a good fishing ground ; has it that reputation ? A. I never 

 found it to be so. 



Q. Have you heard it so spoken of among American fishermen ? A. 

 Yes ; I have heard folks speak of it ; but it is not such a good fishing 

 ground as the Magdalen Islands. It does not begin to be like the Mag- 

 dalen Islands. 



Q. Have you heard of the ground between First and Second Chapel 

 spoken of by American captains or fishermen as being a good fishing- 

 ground ? A. Yes ; along about the middle of September I have heard 

 of them getting spurts of mackerel there. 



Q. The fleet goes there every year, more or less ? A. Some vessels 

 do so, and some do not. 



Q. Have you fished up off Rustico and New London, and Malpeque 



