AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



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Q Have you had sufficient experience of fishing off Rustico to give 

 any evidence?-A. I have never fished off Rustico. 

 Q Will you say it is true or not?- A. I can't tell. 

 Q. How far have you been fishing off Rustico Harbor ?-A. I nevei 



^How often have you passed within three miles there I- A. I don't 

 know very seldom. 



n Did vou ever ? A. I don't know that I aid. 



Q Then you can't possibly tell whether the boats fish there dr not t- 

 A I say I have seen them fishing off ten miles. 



O Were thev large or small boats ? A. Large. 



Q. How often hafe you seen them fish off ten miles ?-A. Five or six 



that as often as you have been there t-A. Probably that is as 



jSSSkI Boss, of Eustioo, fish merchant. He says : 



1 myself am a practical fisherman and engage personally in the catching and cnnng as 



BSllallUll i" uvoim OAJ a ^ ^ i.U_ ,, ;i, 



by the boat-fishermen are caught within the three-i 

 limit. 



Would you like, from your experience, to contradict that ? A. I 

 could not tell you where they were caught, but I have said what I have 

 said, that I have seen them fishing outside of three miles. 



O How mauv boats did you see there ?-A. I didn't count them. 



Q. I want to know if you yourself ever fished up and down the coast 

 of the island t A. I might have tried, but never anything inside 

 three miles. I have never been in within three miles. 



Q When you were living on the island did you never see the Amen- 

 can fleet sailing up and down t A. Often. 



Q. Many of them ? A. There used to be a good many. 



Q. What number used you consider there were ? A. I could not tell j 

 I don't know that I ever counted. 



O. How many was the fleet of American vessels supposed to be ? A. 



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Q y*s y How many American vessels were there in the fleet sailing 

 up and down T A. Sometimes as high as three or four j sometimes 



%. Did you ever see as many as 100 at one time going past ? A. No. 

 Q. What would take them into that dangerous place ? A. Many o 



th Q? ffav^you any ?dthat they "were fishing? A. They may have 

 been some of them fishing half way across. 

 Q. You could not see that? A. Well, you could see them half 



across. 



