AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMIH8IOS. 



suddenly, east-northeast, or northeast, and the rowel that gru.,ot t**t, 

 if it is a long gale, has to have something more than *iU. 



Q. Suppose she is five or si^ miles from land ; do you Inelnileibal!-. 

 A. Well, I do, if it comes on a sudden gale. It i* im|o*ible for brr u> 

 get out if there is a sudden gale. If that gale of 1H?J had bawrtwl 

 with the fleet there that was at Magdalen Islands there would O.H bar* 

 been less than seventy-five or eighty sail lost. It l*g*n about 9 o . lock 

 and by 12 it was blowing a hurricane. 



Q. Do you know anything about .what they mil harUim of r*>faffv> 

 A. Malpeque and Cascumpeqiie. Cascumpeqiie i* no harbor. No Aa* 

 ican vessel of any size will go in it. 



Q. Take the American vessels as they have been built for a numWr 

 of years past. Suppose they are loaded to half their capacity ! A. Hay 

 from '67 to the present time, they draw all the way from eight or tr to 

 fourteen feet of water. 



Q. In a gale of wind how would the bar le ? A. You could Dot go. 

 As soon as the breeze begins to come up, three or four boun after- it 

 begins to blow, you cannot go into Cascumpequr at all. It t* noi */* 

 for a vessel drawing over seven feet of water. Mal|*>que i* brttrc. Il 

 is a very fair harbor compared with the other. Within the lat right 

 or nine years it has become dangerous. Ground has made up et-utU 

 in the middle of the channel. There is only nine feet of water in It. I 

 struck on there once. 



Q. Does the bar shift ? A. No ; but very little. At < '.uK'nmj^oe ii 

 does. 



Q. How do the people at Cascumpeqne account for it fdufting ' 

 The northeast wind changes the shape of the bar. 



Q. Does ice affect it ? A. I could not say. 



Q. Now, when the mackerel attend inshore within thr* 

 what is that a sign of as to the fishing generally ! -A. Well, 

 find them right in among the rocks, we calculate to have a |* 

 of mackerel. As a general thing, when they are that 

 will get them when they cannot get enough for brcakfanl. 

 men have a way of calling them eel-grass mackerel. 



Q^Is the fact of mackerel setting in the sign of a poo 

 is, as a general thing. When we get good catches we gvi 

 water a good fair depth. 



Q. Did you buy any license ! A. I never did. 



Q. Why did you not ?-A. I thought the difference w, . 

 money. I owned the half of one vessel and the v 

 are expenses enough without anything extra alt; 



Q. And you didn't try to fish inshore until alter t 

 ingtouwentintooperati<>n.'-A. No: llierewas. 

 insid6. I have never known any fish except tboa 



Q. That was after the Treaty of Washin 



little over $900 to pay for her espniam, ltK !od~l. 



Q. Do you include insurance.' 



Q. That left you $1HK) odd to divide f 

 for provisions, salt, insurance, and comm 

 owned bv outside parties, but she was , 



