2426 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 







There was no fishing in the bay in those years that amounted to any- 

 thing inside or outside. 



Q. Bat you told us you did not know anything about anybody's 

 catches except your own* A. Yes. 



Q. And you did not ask the men in the boats or make the slightest 

 inquiry about what was caught inshore! A. How do you know ? 



Q. You told us you made no inquiries of what the boats did. A. Ex- 

 cuse me, 1 do not think I told you any such thing. You asked me how 

 I knew, and I told you I could see the boats fishing around the shore. 



Q. I asked you if from personal observation you could tell what they 

 caught, and you said you had enough to mind your own business. 

 Have you made any mistake? Explain. A. All I came here for was 

 to give a fair account of what I know about the fisheries and if you 

 understood it as I do you would understand what I mean a*nd that is 

 what I am doing. 1 have no prejudice in this matter. When we were 

 in the bay for mackerel it was easy enough for us to find out whether 

 there were any mackerel inshore or offshore. Plenty of vessels and 

 boats were trying, and if there were no mackerel along the coast it is 

 not likely that without any inducement we would make ourselves liable 

 for seizure. It is easy enough to discover whether the fish are inshore 

 or not by running along it and looking at the boats. We can tell 

 whether a man is catching fish or not by looking at him without asking 

 a question ; and by running along the coast and looking at the boats we 

 can see for ourselves. 



Q. Did you ever make any inquiries as to the catch of the boats 

 during the season? A. No. 



Q. Did you make any inquiries whatever of the boatmen with re- 

 spect to the boat-fisheries ? A. Well, I have talked the matter over ; 

 while in the harbor I have seen men whom I have asked if any of the 

 boats were doing anything, or had done anything round the shore, and 

 the like of that, you know. 



Q. In which harbor did you do this ? A. Well, in Port Hood. 



<^. Whom did yon ask ? A. Now, you have got me. I don't know 

 one boat-fisherman from another. 



Q. How often did you so inquire in Port Hood, or anywhere else ? 

 A. Perhaps I might have inquired once or twice, or it might have been 

 half a dozen times, I could not say which. 



Q. Did yon inquire in Port Hood as to what the average catch of the 

 boats was, or how they had done during the season ? A. No ; I never 

 asked, save as to whether they had done anything along the shore. 



Q. During the season ? A. No; but at that time that day or that 

 week. I would ask if they had been doing anything inshore. 



Q. That was after their fishing was over. You were not there till the 

 fall? A. Yes. 



Q. Then I suppose you found out that their fishery was over for the 

 season ?--A. Do they not get mackerel on shore in the fall as well as in 

 the summer ? 



Q. What did you find out from them ? A. Well, the answer I got 

 from them was that the boats were doing nothing. 



Q. They were not then fishing at all ? A. Well, they were trying, it 

 Meat. 



Q. What is the fishing season for the boats ? A. Well, I do not 

 tlniik that it belongs to me to answer that question. 



(^. How often did you find out that the boats were doing nothing, and 

 during what months ? A. Well, it was, say, in October that I made 

 such inquiry. 



