AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMM1MIOJC. 



Q. Where did you try there ?-A. We UWH! to try all tbe .v 

 down. We used to catch all our mackerel between Kaat | OIB | 

 Magdalen Islands. 



Q. Did you try in Cape North Hay ! A. So. 



Q. Name the places where you tried. A. We did no about 

 and Margaree. 



Q. Is this the place where you think you tried about tur, 

 A. Off and on, yes, at different times. 



Q. How close to the shore did you try ! A. Sometime* Are aud mtmt 

 times four miles off. 



Q. And you never tried within the three-mile limit except once ! A. 

 I do not think that I did. 



Q. And then you caught 200 barrels! A. We caught them ootatd* 

 of the three-mile limit, I expect ; they were taken at a j.lacr called 

 Broad Cove. 



Q. That is to the southward of Margaree ! A. Yet. 



Q. How far from the shore were you when you caught JOO bomb 

 there? A. We might have been 2i or 3 miles or no off. 



Q. You just told me that you did not catch any within tbe three Ue 

 limit? A. I do not think, however, but that we were three mile* oC 



Q. What, then, do you mean by telling me that \ou caught tbeoi -'$ 

 or 3 miles oft'.' A. Some we got outside the limits and* 

 I cannot tell exactly or give a fair statement about it : I u-\ i r 

 the distance. 



Q. We know that no fisherman measures it; but, a* an 

 mariner, you are able to form a judgment on the matter. Now t*ll * 

 frankly what proportion of the 200 barrels you caught wubiu tb* three- 

 mile limit. A. It might have been 15(1. 



Q. And the rest might have been taken outside ? A. Ye*. 



Q. And that was the only time when you nshed there witbin tbnre 

 miles of the shore ? A. It was. 



Q. And for a very short time you fished 4 or ,* mile* off 

 Breton shore and caught nothing ? A. Yes ; we junt tried, bol dk 

 fish in there because there were no fish there. 



Q. And you have been fishing all these years in the bay. am 

 never tried but once within three uiilea of the I'nuw 1 

 coast ? A. Yes. 



Q. You never fished in the Bay of Chalenn or 

 within three miles of the coast, and never but once 

 the Cape Breton shore. How often did you take 



did you take them out ?-A. I did so at the rr.|n** o 



rners, else I should not have taken them out. 

 Q. Who were the owners .'-A. (ieorge Nor 



ue owners do so .' They nuwt have known ta*l 

 1V fish within the three-mile liuiilA. Tbryf *ti 

 i-s were round, aud thy did not know wbervjwv 

 tu that it was of no use, but they mailed iv, 



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told them where I commonly fi pU ' 

 to be taken out. 



