2460 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Q. What time did you go in ? A. We went in, I think, some time 

 about the 15th of August. 



Q. You missed the best catches of the year ? A. We were cod-fishing 

 when the best mackereling was going on. All the vessels did poorly 

 anyway. Only a few vessels got a trip. 



Q. In '69 you were off the island too ? A. Yes. 



Q. Did you catch many off the island shore ? A. No. We got most 

 of our trip off the Magdaleus. 



Q. How far off the island did the boats fish ? A. Four or five miles. 



<. The last witness said half a mile to a mile and a half or two miles ? 

 A. They fished all distances. 



Q. Why did you say four miles, then ? Have you seen them over a 

 mile or two or three miles ? A. Yes. 



Q. Is not that generally the distance they fish ! A. I could not say. 



Q. Why ; haven't you been sufficiently loiig ? A. I have seen them 

 fishing inside and outside of three miles. 



Q. Haven't you been there sufficiently long this season and last season 

 to see! A. I should say the boats we saw this year were fishing three 

 miles off. 



Q. But you got your fish inside ? A. Some of them. 



Q. The boats were outside of you ? A. Sometimes they were. 



Q. How far would you be off when the boats would be outside of you! 

 A. Perhaps a mile. 



Q. Then they might be outside of you and still be well within three 

 miles? A. Yes. 



Q. You give it as your evidence that most of the time the boats were 

 four miles from land ; and when you say that you caught none within 

 three miles, you mean that you caught them at the same distance as 

 the boats ? A. Some of them fished four miles off and some further. 



Q. The bulk I mean; do you mean that? A. Yes; they fished four 

 or five miles off. 



Q. Do you know Charles H. Brien, who was examined here ! A. 

 Yes. 



Q. He stated that the boats fished from half a mile to a mile or two. 

 Did he tell the truth or not ! A. I have seen them as near as that. 



Q. You don't agree with him f A. Yes, I do. 



No. 48. 



LAWRENCE LONDRIGAN, of St. Mary's Bay, Newfoundland, fisher- 

 man, called on behalf of the Government of the United States, sworn 

 and examined. 



By Mr. Foster: 



Question. You were born in Newfoundland ? Answer. Yes. 



Q. How long have you been away from there ? A. Three years this 

 coming fall. 



Q. How old are you ? A. Twenty-eight or twenty-nine years last fall. 



Q. What did you do the first year you left Newfoundland ? A. The 

 first year I was in America. I trawled on the coast of Maine. 



Q. What schooner ? A. Liberator. 



Q. From what port did she sail ? A. Westport, Me. 



Q. You went trawling for what ? A. Codfish and hake principally. 



Q. Whereabouts did you trawl ? A. Off the coast of Maine and along 

 Seal Island Bay. 



Q. You made short trips ? A. Yes. 



Q- Were you getting fish to salt ? A. To sell green. 



