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place*'to fish unless you are well acquainted with the harbors, which are 

 hard to get into in a storm. 



Q. Do you know anything about the shore boat-fishing at Prince Ed- 

 ward Island ? A. No ; I don't know more about it than that I have 

 seen them off' fishing a great many times in going up and down the shore. 



Q. How far off did you meet the small boats ? A. One, two, three, or 

 four miles cff. 



By Mr. Davies : 



Q. You have been fishing a good many years, and you seem to have 

 preferred the gulf fishing to that on the American coast ? A. I have 

 been in the gulf eighteen seasons mackereling. 



Q. I thought you said twenty-five seasons ? A. I was eighteen sea- 

 sons mackereling, and the balance fishing for codfish. 



Q. Have you fished in Bay Chaleurs proper ! A. Yes ; I have been 

 in Chaleurs Bay. 



Q. Some of the witnesses have spoken of Chaleurs Bay as a pretty 

 good fishing-ground ; would you state it to be a pretty fair fishing- 

 ground? A. Well, I don't think it is a very good place to fish in. I 

 never fished as much there as be\pw; not half as much. 



Q. What is the matter with it? A. We never could find mackerel 

 the same as in other places. 



Q. Did you try it of late years or further back? A. I have not fished 

 there much within ten years. 



Q. Previous to that you fished there ? A. Yes, more. 



Q. Every year more or less ? A. Yes. 



Q. When you were in Chaleurs Bay and found poor fishing, did 

 you go far up ! A. Not a great way up; not more than 10 or 15 miles 

 up the buy. . 



Q. What are the boundaries of Chaleurs Bay from Miscou Point to 

 Port Daniel? A. Yes. 



Q. When you have been fishing there, did you ever go along the 

 shores ? A. Yes, we followed along the shores on both sides. 



Q. The fleet used to fish there? A. Yes, on both sides ; but not very 

 handy in to those shores, for we never could find fish very handy in to 

 those shores. 



Q. The center of the bay is as good fishing ground as the sides ? A. 

 The center of the bay is fully better. 



Q. Your fish were caught mostly in the center of the bay, I suppose ? 

 A. Yes, mostly down at the mouth of the bay. 



Q. You have not followed up the bay at all ? A. No. 



Q. Perhaps you never went up at all ? A. Yes, I have goue up as 

 far as Paspebiac. 



Q. How many times ? A. Eight or ten times. 



Q. Was the fleet accustomed to fish down at the mouth of the bay or 

 to go up ? A. During the latter part of the season they fish below. 



Q. What do you mean ? A. I never was there fishing in the fore 

 part of the season. 



Q. Then you don't know? A. Not for the first part of the season. 

 The latter part of the season they fish below. 



Q. Do you know whether any bait which the fish follow is to be found 

 round the shores brit, for instance? A. Yes, I have seen them in the 

 water frequently. 



Q. Where do you find them ? A, You see them on the fishing ground. 



Q. I mean in the bay. Do you find them in round that shores ? A. 

 I never took notice whether they were about in that bay much. Prob- 

 ably I have seen them. 1 don't recollect about it now. 



