AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 2535 



reoce fishing for mackerel, and the last year you were there for that 

 purpose was in 1864 ? A. Yes. 



Q. 4Fave you prepared a statement giving the results of your fishing 

 those years ? A. I have. 



Q. Is this a copy of it ? A. It is. 



Q. And that is correct ? A. It is. 



Q. What was your share as sharesmau on the Juniatta, in 1848 ? A. 

 It was 64 ; it might have been some few cents over. 



Q. Where were your fish chiefly taken that year ? A. We then fished 

 on Banks Orphan and Bradley, and what we call the Pigeon Hill 

 ground, which lies off the west shore of New Brunswick, between North 

 Cape and Point Miscou. 



By Sir Alexander Gait: 



Q. How long were you on that trip 1 ? A. Three months. 

 By Mr. Foster : 



Q. How long were you on the trip which you made into the gulf iu 

 the Wave in 1851 ? A.. Two and a half months. 



Q. What was your catch ? A. 280 barrels. 



Q. What was your share ? A. $88.69. 



Q. Where did you fish that yeUr ? A. On Banks Orphan and Brad- 

 ley and some at the Magdalen Islands. We, however, caught the most 

 of them on Bank Bradley. 



Q. Give the catches for the various years when you were skipper, 

 with the names of the schooners? A. In 1852 I came into the bay iu 

 the E. C. Parsons; was 2 months on the voyage, and caught 100 barrels. 

 In 1853 I was 3 months on the voyage, and took 120 barrels. In 1854 

 I made two trips, and took 180 barrels on the one and 120 barrels on 

 the other ; was about 2 months on each voyage. In 1855 I made 2 trips, 

 and was gone about 4 months, but I have no account of the number of 

 barrels which we caught that year; we stocked, however, $2,967.56 as 

 the result. 



Q. The year previously, when you took 300 barrels, what did your 

 stock amount to? A. The two stocks, as taken from my books, 

 amounted to $2,937.56. 



Q. What was the average price of mackerel that year ? A. $9.90. 



Q. For the following year, for which you could not find the number of 

 barrels caught though you have given the stock for that year accu- 

 rately, as you do not know the number of barrels, you do not know 

 what was the average price that year? A. No. 



Q. Will you tell the Commission wnat was your fishing ground dur- 

 ing the years when you were in the E. C. Parsons ? A. Well, I fished 

 on the Pigeon Hill ground and on Banks Orphan and Bradley most of 

 the years that I was on that vessel, and I fished some iu October on the 

 Cape Breton shore. 



Q. How far from the land did you fish off the Pigeon Hills ? A. Some 

 18 or 20 miles, I think, and along there. 



Q. You have fished off the Cape Breton shore while you were in the 

 E. C. Parsons ? A. Yes. 



Q. I want you particularly to describe where you fished off that shore, 

 and how near the land you did so, making your statement in as much 

 detail as possible. A. Well, the first year in which the E. C. Parsons 

 came down there, we left home along about the middle of September, 

 and we fished for a portion of the year at the Magdalen Islands, and 

 towards the last of the trip in October we fished some around Margaree 

 Island and Mabou. 



