2454 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Q. What vessel ? A. The Mary Louise, Oscar Fitch, captain, from 

 Gloucester. 



Q. What was her size ? A. 70 tons, I think. 



Q. Did you make more than one trip ! A. Two trips. 



Q. When did you go into the gulf! A. We came in the first trip, 1 

 think, in June. 



Q. What did you do with that first trip ? A. We took them back to 

 Gloucester. 



Q. Ilow long were you gone the first trip ? A. About a month. 



l^. How many barrels did you get ? A. 273 barrels the first trip. 



Q. Where did you take them ? A. We took them around the island, 

 North Cape, and Magdalen Islands. 



Q. How many at the Magdalens ? A. We got half our trip there. 



Q. How many off the island ? A. Probably 40 or 50 barrels. 



Q. When fishing off the island, how near shore did you fish ? A. I 

 don't think we fished less than four miles, four or five. 



Q. Where else did you catch any part of your trip ? A. Some between 

 Port Hood and East Point. 



Q. Were those, any of them, within three miles? A. No. 



Q. Did you get any within three miles that trip ? A. A few at a place 

 called Rnstico one day within three miles. That is all during that trip. 



Q. Well, how did you happen to be at Eustico ? A. We saw some 

 small boats in fishing, springing up, and we went in there and tried 

 them. It came on to blow that night and we had to go out. It was in 

 the Bend, and we had to get off shore. 



Q. How many barrels did you get ? A. 80 barrels that day, near 

 Eustico. 



Q. Take the next year ? A. That was 1874. I was in the Alice, 

 Salem, Captain El bridge Love, of Booth Bay. 



Q. How many barrels of mackerel did you take ? A. 173 barrels. 



Q. How long were you getting them ? A. Somewhere in the neigh- 

 borhood of nine weeks. 



Q. When did yon begin ? A. We came away from home about the 

 1st of August. We were a week, I believe, getting down. 



Q. Where were those taken ? A. They were taken at the Magdalens, 

 some around East Point, and some around Port Hood. The most of the 

 trip at the Magdalen Islands. 



Q. Now the Alice, Salem, is put down that year as having come in on 

 the 9th August one trip, and having gone home the loth of October. 

 Are those dates about right ? Did you begiu about August and end 

 about the 15th October ? A. I think we did. 



Q. But she is said to have taken 275 barrels ? A. 173 barrels was all 

 we got aboard when I was aboard. 



Q. Who was the fish merchant to whom she packed out? A. Charles 

 A. Dyer. 



Q. May you be mistaken 100 barrels ? A. No ; I am not. 



Q. Most of those you say were taken at Magdalen Islands ? A. Yes. 



Q. If any of them were taken within three miles, state where ? A. 

 They were not 



Q. Well, this year you are in the Eliza Poor. As we have heard from 

 her through others, I will not delay about that. 

 By Mr. Weatherbe: 



Q. I didn't take down the year you made two trips and got 273 bar- 

 rels. What year was it ? A. That was in 1872. 



Q. Where were you in 1870 and 1871 ! A. In 1871 I was to work in- 

 Booth Bay in a factory. 



