AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 2367 



Q. When tbe wind is off shore, there is no particular danger to be ex- 

 perienced when entering them? A. No. 



Q. Have you been in the habit of going to Port Hood? A. Yes; I 

 bave been there a number of times. 



Q. At what season of tbe year? A. Late in the fall, to make a har- 

 bor; when we are going to the Magdalen Islands, we are sometimes 

 there for ten days or a week ; and in the fall, when we are down around 

 that way, we generally spend the night in there. 



Q. When, in the autumn, do you generally get into tbe vicinity of Port 

 Hood! A. We never get over there until along about the 10th or the 

 middle of October. Some are there earlier. 



Q. Where, on the whole, has been your fishing ground ? A. It has 

 been at the Magdalen Islands. We went to Bank Orphan on our first 

 trip some years. 



Q. Have you usually fished in company with the greater part of the 

 Gloucester vessels ? A. Well, yes. A good many vessels fished around 

 the Magdalen Islands. Some days you will outy see a lew there when a 

 large fleet is there, and some days you will see a good many there. 



Q. \\\i\ ? A. Because they are all around the islands. The mack- 

 erel are found all about them, and the vessels fish all around them. 



Q. Have you ever fished in the Bay of Chaleurs ? A. No ; I was 

 never there but once, and that was in 1874. 



Q. Did you go in to try for mackerel ? A. Yes. 



Q. What was your luck ? A. We never caught a mackerel. 



( v >. Did you ever fish off Seven Islands ? A. Yes ; once. 



Q. When ? A. In 1852, I think. 



Q. That was a good many years ago ? A. Yes. 



Q. Did you catch any fish there ? A. No; we got nothing there, and 

 we did not stop long. 



By Mr. Davies : 



Q. What kind of a harbor is Port Hood? A. W T ell, it is a middling 

 good harbor, though it is nothing extra. 



Q. It is a pretty fair harbor ? A. Yes. 



Q. When you were there in the fall, were many of the fleet there ? 

 A. Yes. 



Q. How many ? A. I do not know, as I could not exactly say ; some- 

 times 150 vessels and sometimes 60 would be there ; but 1 do not think 

 that I ever saw over 200 vessels there at one time. 

 , Q. There were always from 60 to 200 in that harbor when you were 

 in it? A. Not always; but this would be the case a good many times 

 late in the fall. I was never there save late in the fall. 



Q. When you were then there you would always find in it a fleet more 

 or less large? A. Yes. 



Q. And you think the numbers varied from 60 to 150 and 200! A. 

 Two hundred were the most I think I ever saw there at once ; and a 

 good many of them were English vessels, from Luneuburg and La Have. 



Q. These vessels were all engaged in fishing, I suppose ? A. Yes. 



Q. And I believe you were there every fall ? A. I was there almost 

 every fall. 



Q. It is one of the fishing-grounds well known to fishermen in the 

 fall ? A. Yes ; for those who fish that way ; some fish the other way, 

 down to tbe Magdalen Islands and half-way across between them 

 and Cheticamp ; and if the wind is to the eastward, they make Port 

 Hood their harbor, as there is no other harbor in which one can run 

 about there. 



