2458 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Q. What hare you to remind you of that? A. I think because it 

 would take quite a while to run inshore when we wanted to. 



Q. What do you call inshore? A. Two or three miles off. 



Q. Can you find out easily whether you are three miles or four miles 

 or five miles ofl'? A. I don't know how we can. 



Q. Suppose you were about five or four miles, would you call that 

 off shore or inshore ? A. I would call it inshore. 



Q. Then, what leads you to say you caught about half your trip 

 inshore and half out ? A. Because we did, I suppose. We had a license 

 to fish inshore, and we fished there. 



Q. You were not afraid of going in there ; so long as you found fish 

 you fished there ? A. Yes. 



Q. Well, you had no reason whatever, had yon, to take a note of the 

 quantity taken inshore or outshore what reminds you now of the fact? 

 A. I don't know anything to remind me, only that we fished about half 

 the time off shore, and caught about as many fishing off shore as in. 



Q. In your second trip did you follow about the same spots as in the 

 first trip ? A. We went to North Cape, Escuminac, and West Shore. 



Q. How far from shore? A. Sometimes we would be in sight of land 

 and sometimes off shore. 



Q. Well, if you were called upon to state what proportion you caught 

 inshore and what proportion off shore ? A. We caught them mostly 

 off shore. 



Q. Well, that is not very definite ? A. We might have got 50 of the 

 250 barrels inshore. 



Q. Not more than that ? In the Eliza Poor you got more inshore than 

 that? A. Yes. 



Q. Both years? A. Yes. 



Q. The mackerel that you caught on the Amercan coast did you salt 

 it, or was it sold fresh ? A. It was salted. 



Q. How many trips did you make during the five months ? A. We 

 carried about 250 barrels a trip from 50 to 250. The largest trips were 

 250. 



Q. Since 1870 you have nat fished on the American coast. What use 

 did you make of the time during these years? A. I worked on shore 

 part of the time, and part of the time I fished. 



Q. From 1870 to 1877 you did not fish at all ? A. 1877 ? 



Q. The last time you came in the bay WHS 1870 ? A. Well, I fished 

 on our coast. 



Q. During that interval ? A. Yes. 



Q. Did you fish last year ? A. Yes. 



Q. What was your catch ? A. 900 or 1,000 barrels. 



Q. What distance from the coast generally is the mackerel taken on 

 the American shore ? A. Mostly off shore. 



Q. For the last year or two ? A. The most of our fish are abroad off. 



No. 47. 



DEXTER F. WALSH, of Belfast, Me., fisherman, called on behalf of 

 the Government of the United States, sworn and examined. 



By Mr. Foster : 



Question. You live at Portland ? Answer. No, at Belfast. 

 Q. You were in the Eliza Poor ? A. Yes. 



Q. What was the first year you were ever mackereling in the Gulf of 

 St. Lawrence? A. 1807. 



