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Q. How far from the shore ? A. From two to five or six miles. 



Q. Do you remember the number of barrels you caught there? A. 

 We caught one day off Shippegan, I tbiuk, 25 barrels. 



Q. Did you ever fish in the Bend of Prince Edward Island ? A. Very.* 

 little. I heaved to twice off Cascumpeque. I never liked the place to 

 fish. 



Q. Did you not find fish there ? A. Not many. 



Q. How far from the coast were you when you tried T A. We tried 

 inside of two miles and from that to seven or eight miles oft'. 



Q. Did you fish on the coast of Cape Breton? A. Very little; a 

 very little at Margaree. 



Q. How far from Margaree were you when you fished ? A. Probably 

 from one mile to four or five miles off'. 



Q. Is that a good place for mackerel ? A. It is a good place some- 

 times in the fall. It used to be some years ago. 



Q. In what portion of the year did you fish there, fall or summer? 

 A. I fished there a little while in summer the year I was there. 



Q. How many barrels did you catch there ? A. I might have caught 

 20 or 25 barrels there. I was probably there three or four or two or 

 three days. 



Q. You have fished at the Magdalen Islands? A. Yes; round the 

 Magdalen Islands parts of two years. 



Q. How far from the coast did you find the mackerel f A. The years 

 we were there we got them ten or twelve from the islands the main 

 body of the fish. 



Q. None nearer? A. Some we got within two or five miles, all the 

 way from three to fifteen miles, but we fished principally ten or twelve 

 miles off. That was in 1865. 



Q. Where did you go to fish for cod? A. We went on Western 

 Banks and Banquero. 



Q. Did you take your bait with you ? A. Yes. 



Q. You did not buy any? A. No; we carried salt clams when I 

 went. 



Q. How long ago is that? A. I have not been for nine or ten years. 



Q. Do you mean to say you never fished for mackerel otherwise than 

 Vith salt bait ? A. No ; we never use fresto bait as heave bait. We 

 use mackerel to put on our jigs, but for trawl bait we use salt bait al- 

 together. 



Q. When you fish on your own coasts, do you fish with salt bait ? 

 A. Yes ; for mackerel we do. 



Q. Is net fresh bait better? A. No, I don't know that it is. I never 

 used it very often ; not for mackerel. 



Q. At North Cape what quantity did you take within two or three 

 miles of the shore ? A. We fished about 12 miles to the northward of 

 North Cape. 



Q. Was that the nearest point to North Cape you fished ? A. We 

 have fished nearer than that. We have tried all the way from inshore 

 to out, but the principal part of the fish we caught out to the north, ex- 

 cept this year, when we fished pretty handy in. 



Q. You have come in from the bay f A. We have been in the bay 

 this year. 



Q. Where did you catch your fish ? A. This year we caught the prin- 

 cipal part of our fish from Escuminac to Port Hood. 'We fished some 

 from West Cape to North Cape ; we caught a few fish at East Point, and 

 a very few at Port Hood. 



Q. How far from the shore ? A. We caught half, nearly half, I should 



