AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 2487 



Q. Murray Harbor is on the south side of Prince Edward Island ? 

 A. Yes. 



Q. What did you go there for? A. I was seeking for employment. 



Q. And you were employed in boats there ? A. Yes. 



Q. You went in boats from there to fish for mackerel? A. Yes. 



Q. What were you fitted out for generally? A. For cod fishing; but 

 we could not get them on that shore, and so we went round to the north 

 side of the island to see what we could do mackerel fishing. 



Q. And you could not catch any mackerel ? A. Not inshore. 



Q. Will you give us the names of the owners of these boats in which 

 you were ? A. One of them was named Jackson ; and I think that the 

 other three are lost ; they are dead now. I forget their names. Jack- 

 son is now living. 



Q. And you remained fishing for three mouths? A. For two or three 

 months. 



Q. And during this time you caught nothing? A. Nothing to make 

 it worth while. 



Q. What did you get? A. Something like 15 barrels of mackerel 

 and 20 quintals of codfish. 



Q. And that was all ? A. Yes. 



Q. Is that a specimen of your catches all through these twenty times? 

 A. It is about. 



Q. Did you always go fishing there during those twenty times from 

 Murray Harbor ? A. No. 



Q. Where else did you go from? A. We went once from Whitehead, 

 down on this side of Causo. 



Q. Where did you go then ! A. To the north side of the island. I 

 was with Tom Munroe, who is living now. 



Q. Did you fish inshore? A. Yes. 



Q. And you caught nothing ? A. Nothing to speak of; but we got 

 some, of course. 



Q. What induced you to go fishing there after the experience you 

 had ? A. I was hard up, and did not want to remain idle. There were 

 fish to be got there if you went off the shore far enough ; but we had 

 not the means, and we could not get them. 



Q. But there were fish there? A. Yes; off on the grounds; but we 

 wanted capital in order to catch them. 



Q. How was the fishing where you were? A. I did not see any fish; 

 if I had, I wonld have got some of them. 



Q. You say that the inshore fisheries are worth nothing ? A. Yes. 



Q. Why, then, did you continue to fish there? A. You must under- 

 stand that I was not master of the boat. I was only a hired man, and 

 I had to do as my master told me; and that is the reason why we did 

 not catch the fish. 



Q. Did you not tell them that they could get no fish inshore ? A. 

 Yes. 



Q. And though you told them that it was of no use, they did fish in- 

 shore ? A. Yes ; certainly. 



Q. Do you not think that they had had some experience in fishing in 

 that locality themselves? A. Perhaps this was the case. 



Q. Had they such experience or not ? A. I thought this was the case ; 

 but they did not keep to their arrangement with me; .they were too 

 frightened to. go off shore, but some men are not frightened to do so in 

 -an open boat. 



Q. And you are one of them ? A. Yes. 



Q. Where did you put up at night? A. In the cuddy, forward. 



