AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. J.il.", 



Q. How close to the shore f A. We might have been 2 miles off. We 

 do not anchor very close to the land off North Cape. 



Q. You might have been 3, 4, or 5 miles off shore; are you sore 

 about it ? A. I think it was less than 3 miles from the coast. 



Q. And that was off North Cape, Prince Edward Island ? A. Ye*. 



Q. Have you a very clear recollection of it! A. 1 remember that one 

 time and that is all. 



Q. Is there any difficulty in telling what distance you are from the 

 land ? A. Well, I think there is; that is, the exact distance. 



Q. It is possible that at times you may have been, without believing 

 it, within 3 miles of the coast ? A. I remember only of heaving to 

 around the island the one time I have mentioned, and that was off* North 

 Cape. We anchored there one night and in the morning we hove to, 

 but we did not get any fish there; afterwards we squared away and ran 

 over to Bank Bradley. 



Q. Had you a license in 1866 ? A. Yes. 



Q. And do you mean to tell the Commission that though you had a 

 license to fish within 3 miles of the coast, you never tried to do so 

 except once, and that this was off North Cape ! A. That is the only 

 time I remember of trying inshore. 



Q. Do I understand you to mean that you have tried inshore, but that 

 your memory is at fault, and you cannot clearly recollect whether you 

 tried within three miles of laud at any other time or not ! A. 1 do not 

 think that we did. 



Q. Is your memory sufficiently accurate to enable you state that posi- 

 tively ? A. Well, I do not remember of any other time that we hove to 

 within three miles of laud save that once, while I was in the vessel, in 

 1866. 



Q. I did not speak of heaving, to but of fishing, or of trying to flsh T 

 A. That was the only time I remember. 



Q. Of heaving to or trying to fish within three miles of the land any- 

 where? A. Yes; save at the Magdalen Islands. We fished there 

 very close to the shore. 



Q. That is the only time when you came to anchor ? A. Yes ; in my 

 recollection. 



Q. Did you never fish near the shore of Cape Breton ! A. >o. 



Q. Or of any other place ? A. No. 



Q. Although you had a license ? A. Yes. 



Q. Did you hear of any of the fleet catching fish anywhere around 

 the coast inshore ? A. No. 



Q. Were there many vessels in the fleet which was in the bay that 

 year? A. Well, I could not say. 



Q. You were then a beginner in the business, and perhaps you c 

 not take very great interest in such matters ! A. I did not, 



Q. Did you pay special attention to the distance from the 

 which you caught your fish, or did you ever give this a thought 1 

 Well, we did not fish around the land. We fished off 

 Banks Bradley and Orphan ; these were our usual fisbing-grouii 



Q. You would not take any pains to keep outside of the thre 

 limit when you had a license? A. Certainly not. 



Q. And you yourself were not paying any personal attention 

 subject? A. Of course, if the mackerel had been inshore, we would 

 have gone inshore and fished, but we found the mackerel off shor 



Q. I suppose you caught a good many fish four miles off 

 A. I do not think it. Most all of our fish were taken out of 

 land, and beyond four miles from it. 



