2364 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Q. "Where were those taken? A. Most of them at Magdalen Islands. 

 That is mostly our fishing-ground, except late in the tall, when we get 

 a few round at other places. 



Q. In 1869 were you in the gulf? A. Yes. 



Q. How many did you get then ? A. About 2GO barrels, I think. 



Q. Where were they taken ? A. We got most of them at Magdalen 

 Islands. Some, I think, we caught between Cape George and Margaree. 

 We got some in some years off Cape Breton, between Cape George and 

 Port Hood, and off Fisherman's Bank. Late in the fall we would go 

 round there, and sometimes pick up a few barrels, thirty or forty, and 

 some vessels less. 



Q. In those years were you in the habit of fishing in the Bend of 

 Prince Edward Island? A. I have been there, but I have fished there 

 very little. 



Q. Did you then fish within three miles of the shore ? A. No. The 

 very few times I was there to try, I generally tried from seven to ten 

 miles out. I have not been there for a number of years. 



Q. In 1870 were you on the American coast or in the gulf? A. On 

 the United States coast. 



Q. Fishing for mackerel ? A. I think we were cod-fishing in 1870. 



Q. You were not in the gulf in 1870 and 1871 ? A. No. 



Q. Were you in the gulf in 1872 ? A. Yes. 



Q. How many barrels did you get ? A. 315, or about that number. 



Q. Where were those taken ? A. We got most of them at Magdalen 

 Islands. We caught a few at Margaree, between that and Chetacanip. 



Q. Inshore or out ? A. I think we were out four miles. 



Q. In 1873 what did you get in the gulf ? A. I think 290 barrels. 



Q. How long were you in getting them ? A. We went into the gulf 

 in July and came out somewhere about October 20. 



Q. In 1874 were you there again ? A. Yes. 



Q. What did you get then ? A. I think we had about 315 barrels 

 that year. 



Q. Will you describe that voyage? A. In 1874 we were there all the 

 season. We went into Causo and landed fifty barrels of mackerel. We 

 afterwards took them on board and carried them home. 



Q. How many barrels did you get that year? A. 315 barrels. 



Q. Were those packed barrels? A. No; sea barrels. 



Q. The collector at Port Mulgrave says you made two trips, and got 

 230 barrels the first trip and 170 the second. That is not so ? A. No \ 

 it is not so. 



Q. Did you ever give anybody the statement that it was so ? A. No f 

 I never did. I only made one trip in 1874. 



Q. Where were your fish taken that year? A. At the Magdalen Isl- 

 ands. 



Q. All of them ? A. Yes. 



Q. If I have added up this statement correctly, you have caught in 

 the Gulf of St. Lawrence nearly 5,000 barrels 4,930. You have been 

 up here during 14 seasons, and you got 19 trips ; the average of your 

 trips is 259 T 9 g barrels, and the average of your seasons, 352| barrels. 

 Now, I want you to take your last trip in the gulf in 1874, when you 

 obtained 315 sea barrels, as you say, and let me see how profitable that 

 was to you. In the first place, with whom did you fit out ? A. With 

 Eowe & Jordan. 



Q. Mr. Rowe, of that firm, is your brother ? A. Yes. 



Q. As captain that year in the Alferetta, you had in the first place 

 your own catch as sharesmau, I suppose ? A. Yes. 



