AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 2449 



Q. Did you go in for it ? A. We went in for it. 



Q. To what place? A. A number of places. 



Q. Whatever place was nearest f A. Yes. 



Q. When did you generally go, on what day ? A. Generally on Satur- 

 day. We used to calculate to go in on Saturday, because we didn't fish 

 on Sundays. 



Q. None of your vessels fished on Sundays! A. None I know of. 



Q. Do you know any American vessels that fished inside of three 

 miles ? A. No ; I never heard of any. 



Q. Well, you would meet them going in for bait? A. Yes. 



Q. Was it the custom to talk very freely with one another ? A. Yes. 



Q. Do you think you got free and honest reports of where they 

 fished ? A. Well, very near, for the very reason that we lived right 

 close by one another. We could find out after a while. 



Q. Do you know of any, during those seven seasons, that fished nearer 

 than three miles ? A. No. 



Q. Was that cod fishery pretty successful ? A. Sometimes it was, 

 and sometimes not. 



Q. Taken as a whole? A. Yes, .it was, taken as a whole. 



Q. Did you move to Grand Manan to live ? A. Yes. 



Q. When did you move to Grand Manan ? The next year after you 

 were twenty-one ? A. The next year after. 



Q. You had a house there and were married ? A. No ; I was married ; 

 my wife belonged to the island. 



Q. You went to Grand Manan to live? A. Yes. 



Q. You engaged in fishing? A. Yes. 



Q. Boat-fishing? A. Yes. 



Q. You changed from vessel-fishing to boat-fishing? A. Yes. 



Q. Describe this boat-fishing. How big were the boats? A. Twenty 

 feet keel. 



Q. She had no forecastle ? A. No ; only a small temporary cuddy we 

 rigged up ourselves. 



Q. I will go back to the time you were fishing in vessels. Why was 

 it you didn'i fish nearer than four miles 1 A. One reason was that they 

 would not allow us, and another reason was that we could not do as 

 well. 



Q. If you had been allowed, if you had been left to your own prefer- 

 ences, which would you do ? A. We would prefer to fish outside, for the 

 reason that the boats were in there and they could get more bait than 

 we. got. Their own vessels that were there could not do so well inside 

 as outside at the time I was there. 



Q. What did you learn from the inhabitants, as well as from the ves- 

 sels, as to the American vessels? Did they ever tell you that the 

 American vessels were within three miles? A. No, I never heard only 

 the one complaint. That was before I went there to live, and while I was 

 there to live I never heard any complaints of the American vessels fish- 

 ing inside. 



Q. How long were you there? A. I was there nine years. 



Q. During these nine years you had a boat or boats about 20 feet in 

 length? A. Yes, 



Q. Intended for a single day ? A. Yes. 



Q. To come in nights ? A. Yes. We took our dinners with us. 



Q. Tell me, if you please, what fishing you did the different seasons of 

 the year in boats ? A. Well, in the spring we used to commence in 

 May generally, sometimes a little earlier. 

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