2436 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Q. Your whole catch that year, in your two trips, was 4SO barrels, 

 which went home to Gloucester? A. Yes. 



Q. Have you the means of telling how much you made that year your- 

 self or how your vessel did? A. I could not give the exact stock, but 

 it was somewhere in the neighborhood of $7,000. 



Q. What was the quality of the mackerel? A. They were ones and 

 twos. 



Q. With what firm did yon fit out ? A. Shute & Merchant, of Glou- 

 cester, who owned the vessel. 



Q. And they packed out the mackerel? A. Yes. 



Q. What have you been doing siuce ? A. Principally seining around 

 on the coast of the United States. 



Q. What did you do in 1874, seining ? A. I did not go out until June, 

 and I believe we landed 800 barrels. 



Q. How many trips did you make ? A. Four, after the 1st of June. 



Q. What were you doing in 1875? A. Seining, after the 1st of June. 



Q. Did you go cod-fishing in the spring ? A. Yes. 



Q. Where ? A. To Sable Island Bank. 



Q. How early did you begin your seining for mackerel ? A. By the 

 1st of June. 



Q. And you took 500 barrels ? A. Yes. 



Q. In 1876, where were you ? A. In the same business as in 1875; I 

 was cod-fishing in the spring. 



Q. When did you begin seining ? A. About the same time, the 1st of 

 June. 



Q. How did you succeed last year ? A. We did very well. 



Q. How many barrels did you get ? A. I was in two different ves- 

 sels; and last spring 1 did not go cod-fishing at all. 



Q. What did you do in your vessel? A. We went south for mackerel 

 iu her. We went away down the coast seining. 



Q. How many barrels did you take on the first trip ? A. We carried 

 100 barrels into New York fresh and we carried home 270 barrels. 



Q. You got 370 barrels ? A. Yes ; 100 we sold in New York and 270 

 we packed. 



Q. How long were you making that trip! A. About 6 weeks, I 

 think. 



Q. What did you do afterwards? A. I went seining in another ves- 

 sel. 



Q. How many barrels did you take ? A. About 500, 1 think during 

 the best of the season. 



Q. How many then did you get on the whole ? A. About 870 barrels 

 during the whole summer. 



Q. What were you doing last spring ? A. I did not do anything until 

 I went seining. 



Q. How many mackerel did you take this spring ? A. I cannot tell 

 exactly, because we sold the most of them fresh in New York ; we iced 

 them and carried them in fresh. 



Q. You did not sell them by the barrel ? A. No. 

 By Hon. Mr. Kellogg : 



Q. Where did you go fishing? A. To the southward of New York. 

 By Mr. Foster : 



Q. How many barrels did yon pack besides the fresh ones? A. After 



we W<T< done with the fresh ones we brought in 330 barrels salted. 

 Q. What WM the revel's stock? A. She stocked on the first 



trip 



