2462 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Q. What sort of a catca have you had ? A. A small catch. 



Q. How many barrels ? A. One hundred and ten barrels. Ten hands. 



Q. What is the tonnage of the vessel ? A. Forty-four tons-. . 



Q. Where did you fish during that trip! A. We fished mostly up to 

 the north part of Prince Edward Island. 



Q. When you say you fished to the north part of the island, did you 

 do much fishing within three miles of the coast? A. Not much within 

 three miles. 



Q. What portion of the 110 barrels did you catch within three miles 

 of the shore ? A. I should say about three-quarters off shore. 



Q. And about one-quarter inshore ? A. About one-quarter inshore. 

 What 1 call inshore is two or three miles off. 



Q. Do you think you gave a fair trial to the inshore fishery? Did you 

 fish enough inshore to test the inshore fishery ? A. Yes. We went in 

 to see if there were fish there. 



Q. During the forty years you have been fishing, have you been fish- 

 ing for mackerel or for cod, or for both f A. A little at both. 



Q. Have you been cod-fishing and then mackerel-fishing, or doing 

 both together? A. I have been employed in the fishing business most 

 part of the time. 



Q. Of the forty years you have been fishing, how many years were you 

 in the gulf? A. I think twenty-five seasons. 



Q. Do you find fishing in the bay to-day what it used to be in old 

 times ? A. No. 



Q. What is the difference? A. Mackerel are not so plentiful as they 

 used to be. 



Q. Of the twenty-five years you have fished there, what proportion of 

 your fish did you catch outside, and what proportion within three miles of 

 the shore? A. I never saw a large deck of fish, during the time I was 

 there, caught very near the shore. They were mostly small decks. The 

 best fishing I have seen was on what we call Bank Bradley. 



Q. That has been during the whole of the time you have been fish- 

 ing ? A. Yes. 1 should say that nearly three-fourths of the fish I have 

 taken in the bay have been taken off shore, 8, 15, 25, and 30 miles off. 



Q. During those forty years have you done much fishing on the United 

 States coast ? A. Yes ; I have fished a good deal iu the States during 

 that time. 



Q. Do you mean the coast of Maine, or clear down where the maek- 

 erel go ? A. The coast of Maine. 



Q. You have not done much fishing on the shore from Cape Cod to 

 Hatteras? A. No. 



Q. Or oft' on the Georges? A. No. 



Q. You could not really compare the coast-fishing with the bay-fishing, 

 from what you have seen of it ? A. No. 



Q. You don't know much of the United States coast-fishing ? A. No. 



Q. When you did fish off that coast, was it with seine or hand line ? 

 A. Hand line. 



Q. Then you don't know anything about seine fishing, which has come 

 iu of late years! A. 1 have not been seining. 



Q. With regard to your fishing in the bay. What did you find to be 

 the best fishing-ground in the bay, during the forty years you have tried 

 there? A. 1 think I have caught most fish at Magdalen Islands. 



Q. Are the Magdalen Islands a tolerably safe place ? A. I consider 

 them about as safe as any part of the bay where you get mackerel. 



Q. As safe as the Bend of Prince Edward Island f A. Yes ; safer. 



Q. Why ? A. The Bend of Prince Edward Island is not a very safe 



