AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 2435 



Q. For some years after your first three years you were not in the 

 Gulf of St. Lawrence ? A. No. 



Q. Wben were yon there again ? A. In 1872. 



Q. In what vessel ? A. The Hattie B. West; I was the skipper. 



Q. How many barrels of mackerel did you take ? A. Three hundred 

 and seven. 



Q. How long were you taking them ? A. We went into the bay 

 some time between the 1st and the 10th of August, and we left it on 

 the 25th of October. 



Q. Where were these fish taken ? A. All at the Magdalen Islands. 



Q. When did you leave the Magdalen Islands ? A. About the 20th 

 or the 21st of October. 



Q. Where did you then go? A. To Georgetown, Prince Edward 

 Island. 



Q. For what ? A. We started to go to Port Hood, but when we got 

 across to East Point, Prince Edward Island, the wind came from the 

 southward with such force that we could not fetch Port Hood, and as 

 the wind blew fresh, we went into Georgetown and there made prepara- 

 tions to go home. 



Q. Did you afterward go to Port Hood f A. Yes. 



Q. Did you fish that year anywhere save at the Magdalen Islands ? 

 A. We tried one day from East Point up the island probably twelve 

 miles on the north side, with some fifty sail of vessels. 



Q. How far out were you ? A. We tried all the way probably three 

 to twelve miles off shore. 



Q. With what success? A. We could not find anything; none of 

 us got anything. 



Q. This was in 1872? A. Yes. 



Q. What were you doing in 1873 f A. I was then again in the bay. 



Q. In what vessel ? A. The Joe Hooker. 



Q. Were you skipper ? A. Yes. 



Q. When did you go into the bay ? A. Somewhere about the 10th 

 of July ; but I would not be certain. 



Q. How many barrels of mackerel did yon take that season ? A. 

 We sent home by a freighter from Canso, 210 barrels ; we then re- 

 turned, and got back the day before the storm of 1873. 



Q. Did you send your fish home in a sailing-vessel or in a steamer ? 

 A. We shipped them in a sailing-vessel. 



Q. What did it cost to send them home ? A. Seventy-five cents a 

 barrel. 



Q. From what port did you send them ? A. Port Hawkesbury. 



Q. When f A. The gale took place on the 13th, I think, and but I 

 can hardly remember the date, though I have it all down in some of my 

 books, which I haven't with me ; it was somewhere about the 1st of 

 August. 



Q. What did you do after that ? A. We toak 270 barrels. 



Q. Where did you catch your two fares of mackerel in 1873 ? A. We 

 caught our first trip on Bank Bradley and at the Magdalen Islands 

 in the summer ; and we took our second trip principally at the Magdalen 

 Islands ; we got some few at Prince Edward Island. 



Q. How many did you take at Prince Edward Island? A. Probably 

 one-eighth of the last fare, but no more. 



Q. How near the shore was that portion taken? A. They were caught, 

 I should say, from 5 to 15 miles off the land. 



Q. Were you in Port Mulgrave that season ? A. No. 



