2484 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Q. You have not fished in any schooner? A. Yes; bat not as a fish- 

 erman. I have made trading trips, having gone to buy fish, but not to 

 fish myself. 



Q. You have not been in a vessel engaged in fishing ? A. I have 

 never been engaged in vessels as a fisherman. 



Q. Then you are not a practical fisherman except as concerns boats ? 

 A. I should say that a man who understands boat fishing could also 

 fish on board of a schooner. 



Q. You have never fished on a schooner ? A. Not as a fisherman. 



Q. Did you ever fish at all in the Bay of St. Lawrence 1 A. Yes. 



Q. In boats ? A. Yes. 



Q. Where ? A. Off St. Peter's. 



Q. Did you go to reside there ? A. No. 



Q. You happened to fish there ? A. I ran over there in a boat, be- 

 cause we could not then get any fish at home. 



Q. You went there from Pictou ? A. Yes. 



Q. To which St. Peter's did you go ? A. To St. Peter's on the north 

 side of Prince Edward Island. 



Q. Did you go over there in an open boat ? A. Yes. 



Q. What is the distance across ? A. I do not know as I could tell 

 you now exactly. 



Q. What is about the distance ? A. It is something like 125 miles, I 

 guess, around down to East Point ; and then it is between 40 and 50 

 miles up the island to St. Peter's. 



Q. That would make the distance 170 miles ? A. I will not swear to 

 that. 



Q. You went there in an open boat ? A. Yes. 



Q. How often did you try that experiment ? A. Twice in my life- 

 time. I was there this summer in a boat which I built myself, and I 

 was there twelve years ago. 



Q. That would be in 1865? A. I do not know about that; but I 

 know that it is all of twelve years ago. We loaded with codfish. 



Q. You were not then mackerel-fishing ? A. No ; that was in the 

 spring. 



Q. You never fished for mackerel in the Bay of St. Lawrence at all ? 

 A. Yes ; I have. 



Q. When ? A. Fifteen years ago. 



Q. What were you in ? A. A schooner. 



Q. I thought you told me you never fished in a schooner ! A. We 

 were trading, and sometimes when we could not buy any fish we turned 

 to and caught them ; but this was not making a summer's work of it. 

 You asked me if I was a hired fisherman, and I told you that I was not. 



Q. I asked you if you were in the habit of fishing in schooners. A. 

 I have done so; but not as a hired h'sbermau. 



Q. What, then, was your business ? A. I was hired under the boss 

 trader of that schooner. 



Q. \Vhat were you doing ? A. Trading. 



Q. Where ? A. We were at North Cape, Cape Breton, and previously 

 at Ingonish, Cape Breton, and then we went into the Bay of St. Law- 

 rence and afterward to the south side of North Cape, Cape Breton. 



Q. Did you trade at Prince Edward Island ? A. No ; but we hap- 

 pened to sail that way, and we heaved out the lines one evening to see 

 if we could cateh any mackerel. We were going to Pictou when we 

 were caught by a head-wind and taken as far as Cascurnpeque ; the wind 

 then headed off again and we came around East Point and went home. 



Q. You did not trade then ? A. No. 



