AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Q. I suppose that if yon went that way again you would try there T 



A. It would depend on how I felt; if I was not in too much of a harry 

 to get home I might. 



Q. If you had a license, you would do so! A. It would depend on 

 circumstances. 



Q. What objection would you have to try there ? A. If I had a fare, 

 as we had, I might go home, if there was a fair wind; and if I happened 

 to be there, and could pick up four or five barrels, I might stop to catch 

 them. 



Q. Where did you catch the balance of the trip ! A. Between Bail 

 Point, Magdalen Islands, and Bird Rocks. 



Q. How near East Point were you? A. I should say that we were 

 four, five, six, or seven miles off. We used to heave to four or five miles 

 off East Point, and drift down toward Bird Bocks. 



Q. You would go in to within four or five miles of the coast? A. 

 We might do so, but that would not be very often. Some days we would 

 heave to within four miles of the shore. 



Q. Did you always endeavor to stop four miles off ? A. Well, I do 

 not know as I could tell exactly when we were four miles off. 



Q. You would endeavor to fix the distance at about four miles, and 

 you studiously avoided coming in closer when you ran in to commence 

 fishing? A. Well, I do not know that. We might go farther in shore, 

 but I have never known that we did go any farther in. 



Q. Did you avoid going any farther in ? A. 1 do not know that we 

 paid any particular attention to that matter. 



Q. You would not mind whether you were four miles off or closer in T 

 Had you any objection to being closer in? A. I had not. I was not 

 master of the vessel. 



Q. Did you never fish that way in the same place when you were 

 master ? A. It was a very rare thing that we ever fished so near as 

 within four or five miles of the Magdalen Islands. I never stopped at 

 one place for a whole voyage save at these islands. 



Q. You never fished so close the shore as that ? A. Sometimes we 

 did. We fished within five miles of Bird Rocks. 



Q. And within four miles of them ? A. Well, yes. 



Q. But you did not generally run in so close ? A. We might have 

 done so. I could not tell exactly how far off we fished. We used to 

 catch our fish, on different days in different places. 



Q. You were asked whether you would not have your ears open and 

 your understanding to know where other people caught their fish, and 

 your answer was that some people had their choice f A. Yes, sir. 



Q. That is to say that some people have their choice to fish in certain 

 places and others in different places ? A. Yes. 



Q. And that is the only answer you gave. I suppose you did hear 

 where others were fishing. Have you given a full answer? A. 1 have 

 given a full answer. 



Q. You must have heard where others have fished ! A. Of course t 

 a man gets a full trip on Orphan Bank he will go there again. 



Q. He does not care where others have fished ! A. No. 



Q. Then it is possible that some fish altogether in one place, and some 

 altogether in another place? A. Well, I don't know anything about 

 that ; I only know my own experience. 



Q. Then you can give no idea where fish are caught except your own 

 actual experience ? A. Well, I know where people have said. 



Q. That is just what Mr. Dana asked you. I want to take the same 

 ground that he did, that your ears were open and you understood. Your 



