2314 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



By Mr. Davies : 



Q. Yon were only in the bay during two years? A. Yes. 



Q. Were you captain of either of the vessels f A. No. 



Q. You were only a hand on board ! A. Yes. 



Q. Did you get a pretty good return for your summer's labor ? A. 

 Well, nothing extra ; it was a fair year's work. 



Q. What did you make ? A. In my first season in the Fashion I made. 

 I think, on the two trips about $70. 



Q. But that would not be a fair representation of the average make 

 of the men ? A. No. 



Q. You were then only a junior, going fishing for the first time ? A. 

 Yes. 



Q. And the second year you did not make an average ! A. No. 



Q. Or perhaps half an average ? A. O, I made more than that. 



Q. Did you go at all into the Bay of Chaleurs ? A. Yes. We went 

 in there to Paspebiac once for a main-boom. We had lost our main- 

 boom at Bonaventure. 



Q. Did yon then fish there at all ? A. No. 



Q. You did not try ! A. No. 



Q. I think I understood you to say that you did not try anywhere 

 within three miles of land ? A. I did not say we did not try within 

 that distance, but that we did not catch any fish there. 



Q. Where did you try within three miles of land ? A. Well, I think 

 off North Cape, Prince Edward Island. 



Q. Within what distance of the shore were you ? A. We might have 

 been within three miles and we might have been six miles off. 



Q. Your recollection is so slight regarding this matter that you can- 

 not tell whether you were three or six miles off shore ? A. Well, I do 

 not thiuk that we caught any fish within three miles of land. 



Q. You say you might have been three and you might have been six 

 miles off. A. That is when we hove to. 



Q. Is your recollection sufficiently clear on the point, since it occurred 

 so long ago, to tell us positively whether you were three or six miles off I 

 A. I could not answer that question. 



Q. What, then, did you mean by telling me just now that you did fish 

 within three miles of land off North Cape ? A. 1 said we hove to within 

 that distance. I meant to say that we tried to fish there. 



Q. Did you try to fish within three miles of land off North Cape ? 

 A. We hove to and tried within that distance, but I do not remember 

 that we caught any fish within that distance of land. 



Q. Within what distance nearer than three miles of land did you 

 try ? A. I do not think that we ever tried within three miles of laud, 

 but it might have been within three miles of it. 



Q. What did you mean by saying that you did try within three miles 

 of the coast f A. We might have done so. 



Q. Do you state positively this was the place where you did try with- 

 in three miles of land ? A. We hove to and tried there within the 

 three-mile limit, I think. 



Q. Did you try there or not? A. I will say that we have tried with- 

 in three miles of land. 



Q. How close to it? A. Well, I could not say. 



Q. Was it a mile from it ? A. No. 



Q. Was it two miles away ? A. I think it was more. I remember 

 that we anchored once off North Cape and that in the morning we tried 

 for fish there. 



