AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 2397 



Q. Why didn't you go to Port HoodT A. We don't generally fish at 

 Port Hood until late in the fall. 



Q. The boats fish there all summer,' don't they! A. I don't know. I 

 never fished in boats till last year and this year. 



Q. When you were about engaging in the enterprise of boat-fishing, 

 did you inquire as to the boat-fishing in any other places? A. No; 1 

 uever made any inquiries at all. 



Q. You made no inquiries as to the best places, bat just simply took 

 a fancy to select Tracadie ! A. Yes ; I was there last year, that is the 

 reason. 



Q. Then in your view you were induced to believe it would be a suc- 

 cess f A. I thought last year it looked favorable. 



Q. Don't you think you are taking rather too gloomy a view of the 

 future? A. The whole mackerel I have got, allowing my vessel was 

 afloat, would not pay the bills. 



Q. Even with that, that is only one year; what did you do when you 

 were here before? A. I had made one or two prosperous voyages, and 

 I have made pretty poor ones, very poor. 



Q. How many voyages have you made altogether, in round num- 

 bers? A. Six or seven full seasons. 



Q. You mean more than one trip a season? A. No; never but one 

 trip. 



Q. Well, how many of these trips have been successful, do you con- 

 sider? A. Two were very successful. 



Q. Were those two early in the period over which you fished ? A. 

 One, we came early and staid late. The other one, we came in July and 

 went home decently early, probably in September. I could not? say 

 exactly when, as it was some time ago. 



Q. But I asked whether they were early in the period over which you 

 fished; were they at the beginning of your fishing? A. One was the 

 third year. The other was the fourth time. 



Q. Now, if I understand you correctly, you never fished within three 

 miles much ? A. No. 



Q. Once or twice you mentioned when you tried inshore? A. Yes; 

 but we never caught anything to speak of. 



Q. You never tried more than once or twice ? A. I would not say 

 once or twice, or three or four times. 



Q. But very few times indeed ? A. Yes. 



Q. Had you a license, do you recollect? A. No; I couH not tell 

 ' that. Last year and this year I was master. The other years 1 was 

 not master. 



Q. Then you don't know; do you know whether there were cutters? 

 A. I have never been boarded by cutters in the bay in my life. 



Q. During any of the years that you fished, was it forbidden? A. 

 Never that I knew of. 



Q. You understood that you had a right to go in for fish ? A. I didn't 

 know. 



Q. A good many American fishermen, we have understood, have fished 

 at Bradley and Orphan and the Magdalens. A certain number have 

 always gone there. Some of them have done pretty well and others 

 haven't, and yet they never tried inshore fishing? A. Well, this year 

 1 have known vessels try inshore, and they haven't done anything to 

 my knowledge amongst the boats. 



Q. But you were making losing voyages before ? A. This year? 



Q. No; before. You made seven voyages and lost money on five of 

 them. But you never tried inshore? A. Well, we tried and we spoke 



