2216 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Byron Island ; and the second .between the Magdalen Islands and one 

 of the outlying banks. 



Q. In what vessel were you in 1855? A. The NoarmahaL I was 

 then master. The first trip we packed somewhere about 250 barrels, 

 and on the second we only got 80 barrels. 



Q. Did you go home with the first trip ? A. Yes. 



Q. Did you catch any of either of these trips within three miles of 

 the shore ? A. No ; we took the first part of the trip up on Bank Or- 

 phan. Then we went to Bank Bradley and obtained the rest of the trip 

 on the eastern part of this bank. 



Q. Did you catch any fish off Prince Edward Island at all ? A. No; 

 not that year. 



Q. Were you in the same vessel in 1856 ? A. Yes. 



Q. How much did you catch that year ? A. Two hundred and sixty 

 barrels. 



Q. Did you take any of them inshore ? A. No. 



Q. Did you make a trip before you came into the bay that year? A. 

 Yes; we fisfced on the George's Bank. 



Q. In many of these years you passed the early part of the spring in 

 that manner? A. Yes; before we came into the bay, which would be 

 about the 8th or the 18th of July. 



Q. Is that very much the custom in Gloucester, to fish in the spring 

 through February, March, April, May, and June, off the American coast, 

 and then to come down here in July ? A. Yes ; it was then, and it is 

 so now, more or less. Other vessels that do not follow anything but 

 the mackerel fishery, go earlier in the season to the bay, getting down 

 here about the 8th or the 10th of June, and that is pretty early. 



Q. Previously you fish on George's Bank ? A. Yes ; and on our 

 shore. 



Q. And then the vessels come down here later ? A. I am speaking 

 of the class of vessels in which I went ; probably few bankers left 

 Gloucester those years for the Grand and Western Banks. 



Q. You were in the same vessel in 1857 ? A. No. I was then in the 

 Hiram Powers. No ; I was for four seasons in the Nourrnahal in 

 1855, '56, '57, and '58. 



Q. In 1857 and 1858, how many trips did you make ? A. On the first 

 trip we got 260, and the following year 230 barrels. 



Q. What did you do during the rest of the year in that vessel ? A. 

 I was codtishing in the spring. 



Q. On the American coast ? A. Yes. 



Q. In 1859 you shipped in the Hiram Powers ? A. Yes. 



Q. You then made two trips up here ? A. Yes ; but we did not get 

 much of anything. 



Q. What did you get on the first trip ? A. We packed somewhere 

 about 215 barrels, and on the second trip we packed about 25 barrels. 



Q. Did you take the fish home ? A. Yes. 



Q. Did you catch any fish that year within the three-mile limit ? A. 

 No. 



Q. In 1860 you were in the Hiram Powers; how many trips did you 

 make to the bay that year ? A. One. 



Q. How much did you get ? A. lu 1859, we got 235 barrels ; and in 

 1860, 180 barrels, I believe. 



Q. How long were you in the bay in 1860 ? A. Four months. 



Q. How many trips did you make in 1861 ? A. Two. 



Q. How much did you get? A. About 225 barrels, I think, the first 

 trip, and about 75 barrels the second. 



