AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 2441 



Q. Where is the next place at which mackerel are taken ? A. We do 

 not take many after we leave this point until we reach Nantucket. 



Q. When are they found there ? A. After they have spawned. 



Q. Give the dates as near as you can in this regard. A. They are 

 found here from the 20th or the 25th of June until the 10th of July per-" 

 haps; this would be about the period during which the largest body of 

 fish is met with at this point. 



Q. Is there a school which stays about Nantucket all summer ? A. 

 No. 



Q. Why do they go there ? A. I do not know. I suppose that part 

 of them go there to spawn. This is where we miss them after they first 

 come there; we lose the fish that first come ou the coast there for a 

 short time. 



Q. What is the greatest catch which you have known to be made in 

 a day by one vessel off Nantucket ? A. I have known vessels take a 

 school, which they could not handle, there in a day ; they would have 

 to let a large quantity of the fish go out before they could handle the 

 seine. 



Q. What is the largest number of barrels which you have known to 

 be brought on deck ? A. We took 200 barrels there this summer, and, 

 after taking this quantity out, we gave the seine over to another vessel 

 which took out an additional 150 barrels, and then a shark went through 

 the seine, tearing it to pieces, so they lost the rest, and consequently 

 we do not know how many barrels were in the seiue. 



Q. Why did you give away 150 barrels ? A. Because we could not 

 dress any more than we had taken out. We had all we could take care 

 of in good weather. 



Q. And you know that 350 barrels were taken out of the sein'e before 

 the shark destroyed it ? A. Yes. 



Q. When was this ? A. I cannot give the exact date, but it happened 

 some time between the 5th of June and the 10th of July. 



Q. Had the fish then spawned ? A. Yes. 



Q. It was after the mackerel were in good condition ? A. We got a 

 very small quantity of twos out of this catch, and twos were the best 

 we could get out of them at that time of the year. 



Q. What is the case north of Nantucket Shoals ? A. We will find 

 that same body of fish after they leave that place on George's Bank. 



Q. Have you seined there ? A. Yes. 



Q. What is the largest quantity which you have known one vessel to 

 seine there in one day ? A. I can only speak in this relation concern- 

 ing vessels iu which I have myself been. We have taken 100 and 110 

 barrels at a haul there. 



Q. At what time during the summer? A. Probably about the 20th 

 of July. 



Q. Were those mackerel in good condition ? A. There were some 

 ones among them then. 



Q. They had fattened up some? A. Yes. 



Q. Where is the next point at which mackerel are found ? A. The 

 next point of any consequence is situated on the coast of Maiue, near 

 Monhegau and Mount Desert Islands. Monhegan Island lies off the 

 mouth of the Penobscot. 



Q. How far is this from Mount Desert ? A. I do not know exactly, 

 but it is somewhere about 40 miles from it. 



Q. Is that in the Bay of Penobscot ? A. This island lies off shore- 

 off the western part of Penobscot Bay, outside. 



Q. How large an island is it ? A. I cannot tell exactly. 



