AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 2591 



Q. When were they employed trawling for halibut ? A. From Feb- 

 ruary to June. 



Q. Where did they take tlie halibut which they caught ? A. They 

 took the most of it to Boston then. 



Q. How was ic preserved ? A. In ice. 



Q. Was large or broken ice used ? A. The ice is broken up on board 

 to pack the fish in. 



Q. Your vessels were not smacks ? A. No ; smacks are not used in 

 Gloucester at all. 



Q. What bait was used by the cod-fishing vessels during this period? 

 A. Herring and pogies, principally. 



Q. Frozen herring? A. Yes. 



Q. Did any of your vessels engaged in cod-fishing ruu into any Do- 

 minion ports for bait ? A. No ; not to my knowledge. 



Q. During these three years, from 18GO to 1863, do you know, from 

 the reports of the masters and inquiries and otherwise, where your ves- 

 sels, as a general thing, caught their fish in the bay? A. Yes; the 

 Magdalen Islands is the principal fishing ground which they have men- 

 tioned. 



Q. Were the fish caught, accoiding to the reports of the masters, and 

 your observation and knowledge, mostly outside or*in side of what might 

 be called the three-mile line ? A. They were mostly taken outside. 



Q. How many trips did your vessels usually make for mackerel after 

 they returned from cod-fishing? I suppose that some went for mack- 

 erel ? A. Some made one trip and others two trips. 



Q. Did they return to Gloucester when they made two trips ? A. 

 Yes. 



Q. In 18C3 you gave up the business of fitting out vessels ? A. 

 Yes. 



Q. Were you in the war? A. Yes. 



Q. How long were you in the service? A. About two years. 



Q. To what rank did you rise ? A. Major. 



Q. In what employments have you been engaged since the. termina- 

 tion of the war ? A. Since the war I have been employed surveying 

 and conveyancing, and as town clerk in Gloucester, and from the town 

 clerk's office I went to the post office. 



Q. Apart from the duties of these posts, to what have you chiefly 

 devoted your time and attention ? A. When I was town clerk I made 

 up statistics with regard to our Stat*^ and I have done so since. 



Q. Have you been very much engaged in the making up of statistics 

 with reference to the State and of Gloucester, and of the fishing- 

 business and population of Gloucester, &c. ? A. Yes; more or less. 



Q. And those statistics have been incorporated into ; ome volumes of 

 pamphlets? A. Yes. 



<,>. Have you some of them here? A. Yes. 



Q. How many years of your statistics appeared in the report made 

 li.v the secretary of state to the legislature t A. Those for the years 

 extending from 18G8 to 1872 were contained in the reports returned to 

 the librarian of the commonwealth from the town. 



(}. Have they not been adopted and sent in as executive documents 

 in some instances to the legislature? Do you happen to know for what 

 years? A. The law of Massachusetts requires the town clerks to return 

 the town report of each year to the librarian of the commonwealth ; 

 and tln.se reports I have returned. 



Q. I think 1 saw some which seemed to be executive documents, giv- 



