2246 AWAKD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Q. You don't recollect whether you tried or not ? A. No ; probably 

 we did try. 



Q. Your memory is not sufficiently clear to recollect ? A. No ; I am 

 well satisfied we did not catch any, because I can recollect our catches 

 pretty well. 



Q. In 1864, you were in the Lady Franklin, and got 260 barrels round 

 Port Hood, Margaree, and toward Prince Edward Island ? A. Yes. 



Q. Those you got at Port Hood and Margaree were taken inshore ? 

 A. I should say one-half of them, probably. We fished from East 

 Point to Port Hood, and round Margaree, and off Cape St. George. 



Q. Have you fished between Margaree Island and the shore? A. I 

 never did ; I never was there but once. 



Q. Did you see any other vessels fishing there when you were there ? 

 A. Yes, 



Q. Many ? A. Whatever the fleet was. 



Q. They were fishing there? A. Yes. 



Q. In 1863 f A. Yes. 



Q. How many, in round numbers, would be fishing at Margaree, Chet- 

 icamp, and round there? A. From 50 to 60. Sometimes there would 

 not be auy for weeks ; they were coming and going all the time. 



Q. Would there be as many as 100 there at any time ? A. It is likely 

 there would be. 



Q. Fishing round the Cape Breton shore ? A. Yes. 



Q. Then you fished sometimes that year around Prince Edward Isl- 

 and? A. Yes. 



Q. Up and down the bight of the island ? A. Yes. 



Q. Did you follow the custom of some of the vessels, go inshore and 

 drift out? A. We fished generally where the fleet did. 



Q. Was that the general custom when you were there ? A. That 

 would depend on how the wind was. 



Q. Suppose the wind is off shore? A. That is the way. 



Q. You run in shore, throw out bait, and drift off? A. I don't know 

 what you term inshore. We might not run inshore. 



Q. How near would you go ? A. I would not like to say. Probably 

 we would go inside of three miles ; most likely we would. 



Q. Suppose the wind was blowing off shore, would you not run within 

 three miles of the shore, heave to, throw out bait, and drift off? A. 

 We would in certain cases. When mackerelinen fish they stand up 

 near the shore ; they are as liable to heave to ten miles out as three. 



Q. How near did you go to the shore ? A. I could not say. 



Q. Cannot you form an idea? A. I cannot form any opinion. 



Q. I think you can, if you try. How close have you gone to try to 

 fish and drifted out? A. The nearest I ever was was at Flint Island j 

 probably within one mile or half a mile of the shore. 



Q. You never went within one mile of the Prince Edward Island 

 shore? A. No; at the bight of the island the water is pretty shallow 

 within a mile of the shore. 



Q. Or any part of the island, or off East Point or the Two Chapels ? 

 A. I never fished there at all. 



Q. Is your memory sufficiently clear on the point to enable you to 

 state that you did not catch three-fourths of your mackerel that year in 

 the Lady Franklin within three miles of the shore? You say you prob- 

 ably caught one-half there. A. I could not give any definite statement. 

 I don't believe anybody could. I cannot. 



Q. Then it may have been three-fourths or one-half? A. It might be 

 one-fourth. 



