2324 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Q. Did you say so or not ? A. I say that we never fished within five 

 miles of the shore when we caught mackerel. 



Q. Did you state that it was sometimes difficult to tell whether you 

 were five or three miles from the coast ? A. It was so for five or seven 

 miles, I said. 



Q. Where did you catch the largest portion of your fish during these 

 ten years, from 1851 to 1861 ? A. We caught most of them at the Mag- 

 dalen Islands and on Banks Orphan and Bradley. 



Q. Did you catch the most at the Magdalen Islands or at the Banks? 

 A. We got the most at the Magdalen Islands. 



Q. What proportion of your fish were taken there ? A. Two-thirds, 

 I should say. 



Q. You (lid not try to fish within three miles of the coast? A. No. 



Q. You never did ? A. No. 



Q. Therefore yon are not able to say what kind of fishing is to be 

 found there ? A. No. 



Q. You gave as a reason why, during a great number of years 10 at 

 least you did not catch fish inshore, was because your vessel was long- 

 legged ? A. Yes. 



Q. That was the reason ? A. Yes. 



Q. Are you aware that on some parts of the coast you can go with a 

 vessel of that size as near the shore as you like ? A. I could not say 

 that this is the case. I never did so. I never tried to. 



Q. You were not aware of such places ? A. No. 



Q. And, therefore, you never tried to fish in there ? A. No. 



Q. Are you able to say how many vessels Cascumpeque Harbor will 

 shelter ? A. No. I went in there merely for wood and water ; and we 

 also bought a few provisions there. Only three vessels were in it at the 

 time. 



Q. You are not sufficiently acquainted with Malpeque Harbor to give 

 it any character one way or the other? A. No. 



Q. You do not know how many fathoms of water are to be found at 

 its entrance ? A. Well, when we were there I recollect that we sounded 

 and we found about 12 feet. 



Q. Are you able to say that this was at the deepest place ! A. No ; 

 we went, however, as near mid-channel as we could, where the buoy 

 was. 



Q. It was only during your last fishing year that you fished close in- 

 shore near Sydney ? A. Yes ; I was not master of the vessel at the 

 time. John McQuinu was master. 



Q. You had been master on previous trips? A. Yes. 



Q. For how long f A. I was in the Bloomer the whole time that I 

 was master. 



Q. Were you master during all those years ? A. Yes. 



Q. And as soon as you went with McQuiun you went near Sydney to 

 fish? A. Yes. 



Q. How long were you catching the 40 barrels? A. They were taken 

 during one day. 



Q. And if you had been master, you would not have gone there at 

 all? A. I might have gone there ; we were bound home at the time. 



Q. He was acquainted with the place? A. Yes. 



Q. And he had always fished there? A. I do not know that. We 

 were going southward, when some vessels raised mackerel and we caught 

 there 40 wash-barrels in one day. 



Q. Between daylight and dark? A. We got them all between 8 a. m. 

 and 2 o'clock in the afternoon. 



