AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 2365 



Q. Who caught the most mackerel on board that year ! A. I did. 



Q. You were high-liner, as it is called ? A. Yes. 



Q. Has the captain choice of positions ? A. Yes. He has one of the 

 best berths ; there are two about alike, aud the captain has one of them. 

 He has his choice anyway. 



Q. What did your share come to? A. Somewhere about $125 or $130, 

 I think. 



Q. Did that include your percentage as captain ? A. No. 



Q. What percentage did you have as captain i A. 3 per cent. 



Q. What was your net stock that year? A. It was iu the neighbor- 

 hood of $2,300, I suppose. 



Q. And on that you had a percentage of 3 per cent.? A. Yes. 



Q. Did you make anything else out of the voyage than what you have 

 mentioned ? A. No. I owned one-half of the vessel. 



Q. Did the vessel make or lose money that year? A. She lost $150 

 for the whole fishing season. We began fishing iu April and we knocked 

 off in the latter part of October. 



Q. Then you did something else besides fishing for mackerel ? A. 

 Yes. We went cod-fishing in the spring. 



<J. How did you do at cod-fishing that year? A. We did very well. 



Q. Did you make or lose on the cod-fishing trip? A. I do not think 

 that we lost much. In fact, I do not think that we lost anything. 



Q. Was the cod-fishing lessor more profitable than the mackerel-fish- 

 ing? A. I could not tell exactly. 1 suppose the vessel was about 

 square when we tame to the bay. 



Q. You were about square on the year's cod-fishing ? A. Yes. 



Q. And how was it at the end of the year? A. One hundred and fifty 

 dollars were sunk. 



Q. What was your share of the loss ? A. One-half. 



Q. Was that making any allowance for interest or depreciation ? A. 

 No. 



Q. Was the vessel insured? A. Yes; but she could not pay her bills 

 within $150. 



Q. You seem to have made quite as good catches of mackerel as the 

 average for any one who has been here so many years? A. We used to 

 do about as well as the average, I guess. 



Q. Have you got rich on it ? A. O, no; I have not got much of any- 

 thing. I own a house, and that is about all. The vessel has been run 

 about out. 



Q. What do you mean by th^t ? A. She has run until she has sunk 

 what she is worth. 



Q. Is the vessel lost! A. Some years she sunk considerable, and 

 other years she made something. 



Q. You are 55 years of age, and you have been fishing ever since you 

 were a boy ? A. I began when I was ten years old, and have been 

 at it steadily since I was to. 



Q. How much are you worth? A. I have a house worth about $3,000, 

 I suppose, and that is about all I have. I have no vessel now ; that is 

 how well I have done; and there are a good many as badly off as I am. 



Q. If you were going to the Gulf of St. Lawrence to fish, should you 

 regard the privilege of fishing within three miles of the shore as im- 

 portant to the success of your voyage ? A. No, I should.not; because 

 I have never fished there much. They drive you off there a great deal. 



Q. You seem to have had licenses during two years ; why did you 

 take them out? A. Well, they did not cost much, and I thought they 



