2270 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Q. How many quintals did you get! A. Eighteen hundred. 



Q. With salt bait? A. Yes. 



Q. Did you have hand-lines, or both ? A. Both hand lines and trawls. 



Q. In 1870 where did you fish ? A. On the Georges Bank. 



Q. Did you fish on any part of the American coast ? A. No. 



Q. You make short trips, I suppose ? A. Yes. 



Q. It would be hard to tell what you took ? A. I could not tell ex- 

 actly; we made thirteen trips. 



Q. When did you go to the Georges ? A. In February, the first of 

 February. 



Q. What bait did you use the first part of the season ? A. Frozen 

 herring in February and March and the first of April. 



Q. In the summer you used? A. Fogies. 



Q. You caught cod and halibut both ? A. We caught codfish and 

 halibut both. 



Q. In 1871 where did you go ? A. We went to the Banks. 



Q. In 1872, where ? A. To the Banks. 



Q. In 1873 ? A. We went to the Banks in the spring and to the Bay 

 in the fall. 



Q. All those seasons you went to the Banks did you always go into 

 the bay in the fall, or only in '73 ? A. Only '73. I was to the Banks 

 in the early part of the season and to the bay in the fall. 



Q. Where did you fish in the gulf? A. At Bradley Bank most of 

 the time. 



Q. How much did you catch? A. 270 barrels. 



Q. Did you catch any within three miles? A. No. 



Q. Where did you catch most of them? A. We caught most at 

 Bradley Bank, and a very few at the Magdalens. 



Q. Did you occasionally try to fish near in ? A. I did occasionally, 

 but never caught anything worth speaking of. 

 a Q. Did you try Prince Edward Island ? A. I did. 



Q. How near in did you try? A. Maybe two miles, and maybe three 

 miles. 



Q. What do you say to the bend of the island as a fishing place in 

 midsummer ? A. I say it is no place. 



Q. For what reason? A. You cannot make any lee. There are no 

 harbors. 



Q. Have you been in Malpeque or Cascumpeque ? A. I have. 



Q. What sort of harbors are they? A. Very poor harbors. 



Q. In 1874 were you on the Banks again? A. Yes. 



Q. Have you been there ever since ? A. Yes, I have been there ever 

 since. 



Q. You have gone in the bay fishing this year ? A. No, not since 

 1873. 



Q. Your experience in the bay fishing has been altogether outside of 

 three miles, all you have caught? A. Yes, outside of three miles. 



Q. You have fished out of Gloucester for the last how many years ! 

 A. I have fished out of Gloucester since nine years now. 



Q. Now, what is the principal dependence of Gloucester in fishing ? 

 A. Codfish and halibut. Codfish is the principal part of it. 



Q. Slightly more, or almost altogether ? A. The principal fishing al- 

 together is cod-fishing. 



Q. Of how much importance to Gloucester is the bay fishing for mack- 

 erel ? A. It is of very little importance. 



Q. Has it run down f A. It has run down it has decreased greatly. 



Q. Do you know anything about the shore fishing from Gloucester, 



