2490 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Q. You knew that there were none within the three-mile limit ? A. 

 We sailed along the shore in a fog and tried to catch them. We sailed 

 from cape to cape, in the vicinity of the three-mile line, bat none of the 

 American vessels attempted to come inside. 



Q. Did you not say you tried to catch them inside? A. No; we 

 sailed from cape to cape, in the fog, but never found one of them inside. 



Q. You never saw one of them ? A. Not inside ; but there were 

 plenty outside in the fog ; and I saw the Scotch boats make fast to them 

 and catch mackerel. 



Q. Was this on foggy days ? A. Yes ; and other days, too. 



Q. There were other government vessels in there at that time ? A. 

 Yes. 



Q. And they happened to seize vessels? A. I think they had to 

 give some of them up afterward. Some seizures were made ; but I do 

 not know whether they were legal or not. We did not see a chance to 

 make any legally. 



Q. How many vessels were seized that year ? A. I do not remember 

 just now. 



Q. Of how many seizures did you hear ! A. I could not tell you just 

 now, it is so long ago, and I* have not bothered my memory about it 

 since. I think that Ley bold took one or two, as near as I can recollect, 

 and the brig Halifax was out at the same time. Sir Colin Campbell, on 

 a man-of-war brig, had something to do with some of them, and he 

 made more mischief with Nova Scotia fishermen for telling yarns about 

 these matters than with the Americans, and he did not let the former 

 out of Port Hood for a mouth. 



<J. You seem to, have a prejudice in this regard ? A. No : I have 

 none. 



Q. I asked you what vessels were seized? A. I cannot give you 

 either the names or the number of them. 



Q. What did you hear about them ? A. I do not remember just now. 



Q. How are you now employed ? A. I have no employment at pres- 

 ent. 



Q. Where do you reside ! A. At Pictou. 



Q. If I. understand you aright, when the Americans came in to fish 

 within three miles of the shore the boat-fishermen made fast to the 

 American fishermen ? A. Yes ; but this was not within but outside of 

 the three-mile limit, and many of the boats thus got good catches. 



Q. Do the American vessels come within the three-mile limit ? A. 

 Yes j to approach the harbors. 



Q. But do they do so to fish ? A. I cannot answer that more than 

 to say that I have never seen them catch any fish inside of the three- 

 mile limit, though I have heard people say that they come to fish within 

 three miles of the shore. 



Q. Did you ever see them do so ? A. No. I mean by seeing them 

 fishing seeing them haul the fish np. 



Q. Did you ever so see them in the act of fishing ? A. I never saw 

 them more than sailing along the bays, and so on. 



Q. I understand you to say that you have been for forty years en- 

 gaged in fishing, and that during this time you never saw an American 

 vessel fishing within three miles of the coast! A. No. 



Q. You never did ? A. I never did. 



Q. Either on the coast of Nova Scotia, of Prince Edward Island, or 

 of Cape Breton ? A. No. 



Q. You have seen them fishing very near the three-mile limit, 



