AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 2419 



Q. How many years have you been skipper? A. Eight years, or 9 

 seasons. I have been skipper since I was 19. 



Q. Since you have been skipper you have been engaged in the Bank 

 cod fishery ? A. Yes. 



Q. Did you ever make mackerel trips in the bay ? A. Yes. 



Q. How many? A. Four. 



Q. During what years! A. In 1866 I was there for two trips. 



Q. You were then very young ? A. Yes. I was not master at the 

 time. 



Q. What was the name of the schooner you were in that year ? A. 

 The Reunion. 



Q. What was her captain's name! A. Harvey Conroy. 



Q. Did you take the firstifcrip home to Gloucester that year? A. 

 Yes. 



Q. How many barrels of mackerel did you get in the bay that year ? 

 A. About 600 barrels. 



Q. You have no means of telling the number accurately? A. No; I 

 could not say for a certainty. 



Q. Being a boy you did not have an interest in this matter like a 

 skipper ? A. That is very near the number 600 barrels. It is not it 

 to a pound, but it is near enough. 



Q. Where were they caught? A. The biggest part was taken on 

 Banks Bradley and Orphan. . 



Q. Were any of them caught within the 3-mile limit ? A. I do not 

 remember of heaving to within three miles of land that year. 



Q. When were you next in the gulf ? A. I would not say for certain 

 but I think it was in the fall of 1870. 



Q. What was the name of your schooner that year ? A. Henry L. 

 Phillips. 



Q. Were you skipper ? A. Yes. 



Q. How long were you in the gulf? A. We got in there sometime 

 about the middle of September, I think, and were there till sometime in 

 October. 



Q. What did you catch ? A. Something like 60 barrels. 



Q. What had you been doing during the previous part of the year ? 

 A. Banking, on the Grand Banks. 



Q. Where did you get these 60 barrels ? A. Scattered all over the 

 bay. There were no fish in the bay that year. 



Q. When were you again in the bay ! A. In 1872 I think on a fall 

 trip. 



Q. What was your schooner's name? A. George Clark. I was 

 captain. 



Q. How many barrels did you take ? A. 70, 1 think. 



Q. Where did you take them ? A. The bigger part we got at the 

 Magdalen Islands and the rest scattered through the bay. 



Q. When were you next there ? A. In 1873, in the George Clark, on 

 a fall trip. 



Q. What did you catch? A. 90 barrels, I think. We caught the 

 bigger part of them at the Magdalen Islands, and the rest scattered 

 through the bay. While I was in the bay I will say that we never got 

 a barrel of mackerel within three miles of land. 



Q. The first year, when you made two trips, you were there for the 

 season? A. Yes. 



Q. And the last three years yon made fall trips? A. Yes. 



Q. After you had been cod-fishing elsewhere ? A. Yes. 



