2244 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Q. What harbors did you go into most often ? A. Port Daniel and 

 Paspebiac. 



Q. Where is Port Daniel ? A. Eight across from Point Miscou, at 

 the mouth of Bay Chaleurs. Paspebiac is thirty miles from Port Daniel, 

 and on the same shore. 



Q. In 1868 you say you were halibut fishing; where ? A. At Grand 

 Banks, St. Peter's Bank, and Western Banks. 



Q. What were you doing in 1870 ? A. I was halibut fishing. 



Q. And in 1871 and 1872 ? A. The same, in the same vessel, the C. 

 H. Price, of Salem. 



Q. Were you captain ? A. I was. 



Q. When did you begin to go as captain ? A. In 1870. 



Q. How have you supplied yourself with bait for halibut fishing ? A. 

 J have got it on the Nova Scotia shore at times. 



Q. Have you caught it or bought it! A. Bought it always; I never 

 caught any. 



Q. Where ? A. At Prospect, Strait of Canso, or Little Canso, and 

 Shelburne. I was in at Dover once. 



Q. Did you ever buy any on the American coast ? A. No ; I never 

 did, except in the winter. I have bought frozen herring and taken them 

 home. We get our bait principally at Newfoundland, at Fortune Bay, 

 or St. Peter's Island. 



Q. You know about the island of St. Peter's? A. Yes. 



Q. Do yon know about cod-fishing at Newfoundland and the Grand 

 Banks? A. Yes. 



Q. Do you know about the bait that is used by codfishermen ? A. 

 Yes. 



Q. What bait do the French use ? A. Salt bait, except what they 

 catch on the Banks. Salt herring, caplin, and squid. 



Q. Always salt bait? A. Yes, except what they catch themselves on 

 the Banks. 



Q. Do they fish with trawls ! A. Altogether. 



Q. Is there a supply of bait procurable and purchasable at St. Pe- 

 ter's? A. There always is when it is in season. If you can get it at 

 Fortune Bay you can get it there. 



Q. What proportion of your bait did you buy at St. Peter's? A. I 

 could not say. I have been a number of times there. Sometimes we 

 would hire a vessel to go to Fortune Bay. We generally hired a ves- 

 sel at St. Peter's to get bait. 



Q. Since you left off fishing yourself, which was, I understand, in 

 1873, what have you been doing? A. I was agent for Whalen & Co., 

 Salem. 



Q. Where were you located ? A. Bay of Islands. 



Q. Doing what ? A. Selling goods and taking all kinds of fish and 

 produce in exchange. 



Q. I want to ask you with regard to estimating distances by the eye 

 at sea, looking from the sea to the shore, looking from one vessel to 

 another, and looking from the shore to a vessel out at sea. Is it easy 

 to estimate the distance accurately, and if there is a liability to err, is 

 a man more likely to overestimate or to underestimate the distance ? 

 A. He is more liable to underestimate the distance looking toward the 

 land. 



Q. How when looking from the land? A. Looking toward a vessel? 



Q. Yes. A. I don't think he is liable to err one way or the other 

 unless he is a long way from her. Then it would be according to the 

 height of the vessel. If you knew the vessel you could judge better. 



