AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 2335 



Q. Now the fifth year, what vessel were you in ? A. The Noonday. 



Q. How many trips did you make f A. I made one salt trip. 



Q. How much fish did you catch ? A. We caught 110,000. 



Q. How many trips did you make for fresh fish I A. We made three 

 trips for fresh fish. 



Q. Where did you get your bait that year? A. In Newfoundland. 



Q. That is the first year you went to Newfoundland, is it ! A. No ; 

 we were in the year before that. 



Q. You stated before that you got bait on the Banks, now you say 

 you got it in Newfoundland. Which is correct! A. We got our bait 

 in Newfoundland the fifth year. 



Q. That is 1875 f A. Yes. 



Q. Is that the first year you got it in there! A. Yes. 



Q. Just now you said you had been into Newfoundland for bait in 1874 ! 

 Then you have only been in three years ? A. And this year. 



Q. That is '75, '76, and '77 only three years! A. Didn't I tell you 

 I was in the first trip in the Noonday. 



Q. Did you go into Newfoundland for fresh bait in 1874 for the first 

 time, or was it in 1875 ? A. I told you 



Q. Just answer simply ? A. 1874. 



Q. Then you were incorrect just now when you said you caught it 

 that year on the Banks ? A. Well, I caught part of it. The first trip 

 we went into Newfoundland, and the second trip got it on the Banks. 



Q. You went into Newfoundland in the spring for your first bait ? 

 A. Yes. 



Q. Where did you go ! A. To Fortune Bay. 



Q. Did you take a seine and catch the bait yourself? A. No. 



Q. Did you employ people there to catch it for you ? A. Yes. *. 



Q. How many barrels of bait did you get ? A. Somewhere about 40 

 barrels. 



Q. And you gave them $25 or thereabouts ? A. Not that year; it was 

 $50 that year. 



Q. Well, now, in 1875 you say you got 110,000 pounds of fish. What 

 vessel were you in in 1876? A. The Noonday. 



Q. How many trips ? A. One trip. 



Q. How many fish did you take? A. 80,00078,000. 



Q. Had you made any trips for fresh fish in the spring! A. Yes. 



Q. How many ? A. Three or four four. 



Q. Where did you get bait for the fresh fish ! A. We got it down the 

 shore here; some in Prospect. 



Q. You caught the fresh bait yourselves ? A. No ; we bought it 

 there. 



Q. Did you employ people to catch it for you ? A. They came along- 

 side with it, and we bought it from them. 



Q. What was it ? A. Herring. 



Q. The trip you made for salt fish, where did you get bait ? A. Some 

 on the Cape Breton shore. We got the first bait on the Cape Breton 

 shore, and the next in St. John's. 



Q. For the first three or four trips you went for fresh fish, and then 

 you went for a trip for salted fish ! A. Yes. 



Q. For the first bait for the salt fish you went to Cape Breton ! A. 

 Yes. 



Q. And the second bait to St. John's ? A. Yes. 



Q. What time did you go into St. John's ! A. We went there about 

 the last of October. 



Q. What bait did you get then ! A. Squid. 



