AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 2319 



Q. How is it in September ? A. During the summer season vessels 

 may fish there, because the weather is a great deal milder ID July and 

 August; but about the first of September it begins to get more blowy 

 and windy. 



Q. And even in July and August, you would be careful how near you 

 were inshore ? A. Yes. The bend of the island is a very bad place to 

 fish in j it is so regarded, especially when the wind is blowing on shore, 

 because then the tide generally sets in, and makes it very rough there. 



Q. The tide is subject to that there ? A. Yes. 



Q. And that makes it very rough there ? A. Yes. It does that all 

 over the bay. 



Q. Do you know anything about the the bar of Mal{>eque Harbor T 

 Is it stationery or shifting? A. 1 do not know save very little about 

 it ; I was only there two or three times. I was there twice one year, aud 

 then the bar remained about the same ; but since I have beard that it 

 has shifted some. I do not know this personally, however. 



Q. Do you know how it is about Cascumpeque ? A. I never was 

 .there but once, and I could not tell you. 



Q. That was a good while ago? A. Yes. 



Q. From your experience in the bay a pretty long one do you attach 

 much importance to the right of fishing within three miles of the shore f 

 A. Well, no ; I do not think it is of any importance. It never was so 

 to me. 



By Mr. Weatherbe: 



Q. What age were you when you left Ketch Harbor,? A. I was then 

 three years old. 



Q. You have never lived there since ? A. No; I have since always 

 lived in Gloucester. 



Q. You are married and settled there ? A. Yes. 



Q. And naturalized f A. Yes. 



Q. During all these years when you fished in the Gulf of St. Law- 

 rence, had you a large number of Nova Scotians on board ? A. Some- 

 times we had some. 



Q. We have a long list of such names? A. Well, that is the case in 

 many instances ; but in our case, when I was in the Bloomer, for four 

 or five years we had a crew from home Gloucester ; but we have some- 

 times had Nova Scotians on board. 



Q. You had some of them in the Bloomer ? A. Yes. 



Q. Will you give their names? A. I do not know as I could recol- 

 lect them all. We had one man named Bryant Rogers of the Gut of 

 Canso, and another called Bed Dan, a Scotchman, of the .same place. I 

 do not know his real name. Then we had a third, named Hugbey 

 McDonald. 



Q. In what vessel were they ? A. The Bloomer. 



Q. What year was this ? A. I do not know that I could give the year 

 exactly, but I think it was in 1854. 



Q. Do you recollect any othewiames from Prosjwct or Ketch Harbor? 

 A. I only had one man from one of these places aud his name WM 

 John Clancy. 



Q. Where is he now? A. I could not say. 



Q. Did he reside in the United States T A. No; he went fishing from 

 therefor two or three years. He went with me on one trip in the fall, 

 and he then went home. 



Q. Was he a young man ? A. I think he would be now about 35 

 years old, or perhaps a little more. 



Q. He was in the Bloomer ? A. Yes. 



