2266 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Q.. Perhaps you never were there at all any year ? A. Yes; I have 

 been up and down the island often. I never stopped to fish much. 



Q. What times of the year did you generally go? A. July or Au- 

 gust. 



Q. What were you doing going up and down if you never fished ? 

 A. Coming from Bank Bradley. 



Q. Does it necessarily follow that you must go up and down the isl- 

 and within three miles ? A. No ; we never go within that distance 

 when we go up and down. We were just in sight of land. 



Q. You speak of passing the island going to the Magdalens and 

 Bradley. What I speak of is going there purposely to fish ? A. No. 



Q. You have never gone there any time for that purpose ? A. No ; 

 not to fish. 



Q. As a matter of fact, have you ever fished within three miles? A. 

 Yes; I suppose I have caught half a barrel within three miles. 



Q. Well, down about the Cape Breton shore, you never went there 

 very much ? A. Yes ; I have been there. 



Q. Did you fish around Margaree and Cheticamp ? A. No. 



Q. You never fished there at all ? A. I might have got a barrel or a 

 couple of barrels. 



Q. Practically, then, no quantity of your fish has been taken around 

 any of those shores ? A. I got 75 barrels. 



Q. Those you say were caught five miles off? A. Well, I call that 

 on the shore. If I am nearer Cape Breton than the Magdaleus, I say I 

 am on Cape Breton. 



Q. You didn't even get a half barrel of those 75 barrels on the Cape 

 Breton shore within ? A. I said that down about Margaree I have 

 caught two or three barrels. 



Q. Have you fished at Seven Islands ? A. No. 



Q. Nor along the shores of the St. Lawrence Kiver at Gaspe and 

 Bonaventure? A. No. 



Q. You have confined yourself to the Magdalens and Bank Bradley ? 

 A. Yes. 



Q. Have you heard of any American fishing-vessels fishing at those 

 places I have mentioned ? A. Yes. 



Q. Have you heard them spoken of as fishing grounds ? A. Yes. 



Q. Which of them ? A. I have heard of vessels fishing at Prince 

 Edward Island. When we heard of vessels fishing there we didn't hear 

 whether it was two or ten miles off that they fished. They might be 

 seven or eight miles. 



Q. Then yon never were there, and you can't tell whether the fish 

 were caught within three miles or outside. You don't profess to say 

 that * A. No, I never was there. 



Q. Well, you never were there except but once when you caught half 

 a barrel ? A. I said I was several times up and down. 



Q. But that was outside ? A. Yes. 



Q. But inside I am speaking of? A. I never heard of vessels making 

 any large catches inside of three miles. 



Q. Did you ever hear it spoken of, when you heard of vessels having 

 caught fish at Prince Edward Island, whether it was inside or outside? 

 A. No. 



Q. You have heard of Prince Edward Island as a fishing resort ? A. 

 Yes, I have heard of that, but I never fished. 



Q. But you have heard it spoken of as a fishing ground ? A. Well, 

 nothing more than any other part of the bay. 



