AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 2249 



Q. Did you keep any memorandum of the bearings ? A. I did. I 

 kept a kind of journal, but I have not got it here. 



Q. In 1867 you caught mackerel in the Ruth Groves round Prince 

 Edward Island ? A. Yea. 



Q. You cannot say how many you took inshore '? A. No. We caught 

 120 barrels, I think. Seventy barrels we took in sight of land at Mai- 

 peque. 



Q. How far off were you at that time? A. I don't know. It was 

 only in 1866 1 took cross-bearings.. 



Q. During the last year or two have mackerel been found closer to 

 the shore than formerly ? A. I don't know any thing about that ; I have 

 not been there. 



Q. You were there in 1869? A. Yes. 



Q. You caught all your catch in the bend of Prince Edward Island ? 

 A. Not all of it. We caught part at Magdalen Islands. 



Q. You said, generally, that you caught them at the bend of the 

 island ? A. I said that we caught them at Magdalen Islands and the 

 bend of the island. 



Q. Will you swear you caught any part of them at Magdalen Islands! 

 A. I might have omitted that. Speaking in general terras, I said we 

 caught so few mackerel that it was hard to tell where they were taken. 

 We visited the whole bay that year. 



Q. You went up and down, fishing inshore and outside? A. Yes. 



Q. Where were the other vessels fishing, inshore and outshore ? A. 

 We saw vessels all round where we were fishing. 



Q. You never fished up at Seven Islands ? A. Never. 



Q. Nor up St. Lawrence River? A. No. 



Q. You cannot tell where you fished in Bay Chaleurs ? A. I never 

 caught any there. 



Q. Did you see some English war vessels ? A. I have seen, on the 

 way, one or two lying at Port Hood which appeared to be English 

 steamers. 



Q. They did not interfere much with you ? A. Not with us. 



Q. Where were you fishing halitfuf in 1872? A. At the Grand 

 Banks principally and at the Banks of Newfoundland. 



Q. Not down the Nova Scotia Coast ? A. No. 



Q. Do you know Cape Sable Island? A. Yes. 



Q. Do you know that the halibut fleet go there and fish ? A. I don't 

 thmk they do ; I never went there. 



Q. Have you sufficient information to enable you to state that they 

 do not? A. I never heard of anybody catching fish close to Sable 

 Island. They might do so. 



Q. You don't know? A. I don't know anything about it. 



By Mr. Whiteway : 



Q. You live at the Bay of Seven Islands now ? A. Yes. 



Q. How long have you lived there ? A. I went there first in 1874. I 

 went again in 1875. 



Q. You now reside there permanently ? A. I don't call it perma- 

 nently. I have been there for three years, but I don't call it my place 

 of residence. 



Q. You are an American citizen ? A. I am not a naturalized British 

 subject, but an American citizen. 



Q. How long have you been fishing on the Banks ? A. I was for 

 three years captain of the C. H. Price, of Salem. We fished on the 

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



