2366 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



might trouble me and drive me around. They drove us out of a harbor 

 once. 



Q. What do you mean by this ? A. They stopped us from going into 

 the harbor. This was a good while ago, and I thought I would take out 

 a license. It did not amount to much, and it I found anything inshore, 

 I then had a right to catch fish there. 



Q. The first year you paid 50 cents a ton on 55 tons for your license; 

 what did you pay the second year ? A. I forget; but i think it was $1 

 a ton. I won't, however, be certain about it. 



Q. Have you ever fished for mackerel on Georges Bank ? A. O, yes. 



Q. You have gone there on purpose to fish for mackerel ? A. O, yes; 

 and for a number of years. 



Q. Without going into the details of the voyages, will you state 

 whether it is a good fishing ground ? A. It is a good fishing ground. 

 I have got a good many mackerel there. 



Q. You have been cod-fishing a good deal, I notice ? A. Yes. 



Q. How have you supplied yourself with bait? A. We always got 

 our bait home. During the first part of the season we would go to Cape 

 Cod and the sound for it. Generally, after the first one or two trips, 

 when the frozen herring were gone, we went over across to Cape Cod r 

 to what is called the Shoals, and procured bait until it came our way, 

 and we then baited during the rest of the year at home. 



Q. Have you ever got bait where you were fishing on the Banks ! 

 A. Yes. 



Q. What kind of bait ? A. Herring. 



Q. Have you ever been to Newfoundland for bait I A. Yes ; but not 

 for fresh bait. I went there after frozen herring. 



Q. Did you buy or catch the herring ? A. I bought them. 



Q. For bait for your own vessel ? A. No; but a cargo. I took them 

 home. 



Q. How often did you purchase them ? A. I did so for a few years. 



Q. Where did you go for them ? A. To Fortune Bay. 



Q. Did you go there prepared to fish for them ? A. No ; and I never 

 saw any one who did so, when I went there. It is now a number of years 

 since I was there. 



Q. In how many Prince Edward Island harbors have you been ? A. 

 I have been in Georgetown, and Malpeque, and in Cascumpeque once, in 

 1851. I went there for barrels. The man who fitted us out then had 

 barrels there and he wanted us to go and take them. 



Q. Why did you go to Malpeque ? A. .To make a harbor. I was never 

 there a great deal. 



Q. How many times have you been fishing there? A. I was about 

 there mostly all one year, 1 think, and I might have been in there four 

 or five times. 



Q. How many times were you in Georgetown ? A. I do not think I 

 was there over two or three times. I was in Georgetown Harbor for the 

 first time, I think, in 1874, save once. I was there in 185(5 or 1857, and 

 I do not think that I w^as there again until 1874. 



Q. Are those harbors of such a kind that fishing-vessels in bad weather 

 can easily enter them ? A. No; those_ which are on the north side of the 

 island are not so. 



Q. Why not? A. Well, it is kind of shoal water about them, and it 

 is generally pretty rough there when the wind is blowing on shore. 

 When the wind is to the westward and off shore, they do well enough, 

 but when the wind is blowing on shore, they are CDnsidtrably rough. 



