AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 2263 



Q. How long have you been a master ? A. It is about 18 years since 

 I was first. 



Q. What have you been fishing for ? A. Mackerel and cod. 



Q. What year was it that you were first out as master ! A. I don't 

 recollect the date. It was about 18 years ago. 



Q. In what vessel ? A. The Ada, 



Q. You fished in the gulf that year? A. Yes. 



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



Q. What was your catch and where did you fi.sh ? A. We caught 

 mackerel at the Magdalens most of the time. 



Q. What was the catch ? Just state the quantity. A. About 150 

 barrels the fir.-t trip, and about 120 the second. 



Q. Confined to what places ? A. The Magdalens mostly. 



Q. You did not fish withiu three miles on that occasion, that you rec- 

 ollect ? A. No. 



Q. Were you fishing in 1860 ? A. Yes; mackerel-fishing. 



Q. Do you recollect what you did that year ? A. Got about 800 bar- 

 rels. 



Q. Where ? A. At the Magdalens and Bird Rocks. I call it all 

 Magdalens. 



Q. Then you were fishing steadily? A. Yes; right straight along. 



Q. How far can your recollection go back ? A. Not further than 1872, 

 I expect. 



Q. Where were you fishing in 1872 ? A. In the bay. 



(^. Were you in command in 1872? A. Yes; in the Etta Gott. We 

 got them at Bradley. The second trip we picked up all round, a few at 

 Bank Bradley, a few at the Magdaleus, some off Cape George, what we 

 call Fisherman's Bank. 



Q. Were you fishing in 1873 ? A. Yes. 

 . Q. lu what vessel ? A. The Etta Gott. 



Q. How many trips did you make that year ? A. Two. 



Q. How many did you get? A. We took about one hundred and 

 forty the first trip, and about two hundred the second. 



Q. Where did you get them ? A. At the Magdaleus. 



Gj. Were you fishing in 1874? A. Yes, in the same vessel. We 

 laiided one trip and went back, and got about 100 barrels. We had, 

 I think, about 200 the first trip ; that is, we landed 200. Sometimes we 

 don't take them all out. 



Q. In 1875 where were you? A. I was part of the year fishing, and 

 got 40 barrels. 



Q. Whereabouts ? A. Down about the Magdalens. 



Q. What was the matter? Did you go in late? A. Yes, in Sep- 

 tember. 



Q. Were you there in 187G? A. No, not since that. 



Q. Well, then, during your fishing, you haven't had any inshore fish- 

 ing within the limits that you have known? A. None to speak of. 



Q. Well, what do you mean when you say you had none to speak 

 of ? A. Well, if I was catching fifty or sixty barrels, I would call it a 

 pretty good catch; but if it was only two or three barrels I would not 

 take much notice of it. 



Q. You mean that you have at times got as much as fifty or sixty 

 barrels withiu ? A. At Limbo Cove I caught seventy-five barrels. 



Q. Where is that ? A. Well, Cape St. Lawrence makes the east side 

 of it. It is on Cape Breton Island, the north side. 



Q. And you say you got these seventy-five barrels within?- -A. I 



