AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 2459 



Q. How maay barrels did you take ? A. 300. 



Q. Where ?-A. At Magdalens. 



Q. Anywhere else ? A. We caught about all there, I think. 



Q. Take 1869, what vessel were you in ? A. In the Morning Star,..* 

 Captain Moore. 



Q. How many barrels of mackerel did you take ? A. I think we took,, 

 in 1869, 240 barrels in two trips. 



Q. How long were you here ? A. About four months in the bay. 



Q. Where were these taken ? A. At the Magdaleus mostly. 



Q. Where else? A. I don't remember fishing any where else West 

 Shore and Prince Edward Island. 



Q. In 1876 you were in the gulf again ? A. No. 



Q. Were you not in the gulf last year ? A. Yes. 



Q. In what schooner ? A. The Alice M. Gould. 



Q. How long were you here ? A. Four months, two trips one for 

 cod and one for mackerel. 



Q. How long were you in the gulf mackereling? A. Two months. 



Q. How many men have you had ? A. 14 mackereling. 



Q. How many barrels have you got ? A. 40. 



Q. In two months ? A. Yes. 



Q. Where were these taken ? A. At Port Hood, Cape George, and 

 East Point. 



Q. I need not ask you whether you made any money last year ? A. 

 I was cook and made $50 a month. 



Q. But from catches was any money made ? A. 3o. The crew came 

 home in debt. 



Q. Not only the vessel but the crew? A. The vessel and the crew 

 both. 



Q. This year you have been in the Eliza Poor 1 ? A. Since the 4th 

 of August. 



Q. We have had an account of the trip; I think I won't go over that 

 again. 



By Mr. Davies : 



Q. Were you master of these vessels ? A. No. 



Q. You Mere in the Morning Star in 1869. Who was her captain 

 then ? A. George Moore. 



Q. When you were there this vear how many barrels did you take ! 

 A. 120. 



Q. Where were you fishing? A. Around the west shore of Prince 

 Edward Island, and Escumiuac, some around East Point. 



Q. Every year there are more or less got there ? A. Yes. 



Q. The first year, '67, you were not there at all? A. No; at the Mag- 

 dalens. 



Q. And since that you have been generally fishing those grounds ? 

 A. Yes. The second year we fished mostly at the Magdaleus. 



Q. The last year you have been fishing over this ground ! A. Yes. 

 I haven't been at the Magdalens this year at all. 



Q. When ; '76 ? A. No ; I was not there last year. 



Q. Why didn't you go there last year and this year ? A. I don't know 

 why. 



Q. The fleet was fishing around East Point and Port Hood ? A. We 

 had news from the Magdalens that they were not doing anything there, 

 I suppose. We generally know what is going on all round the bay. 



Q. You got a very small catch last year? A. Yes. 



Q. That was not the average ? A. Yes, I think it was. 



