AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. ' 2675 



Do I understand that is the exact annual charge of a vessel during 302 

 days she was running ? A. I do. 



Q. Under the miscellaneous charges, amounting to $1,135.50, there is 

 an item, 200 tons ice, $600. Do you mean to say that a vessel engaged 

 fishing will use 200 tons ice in 302 days? A. Yes. 



Q. Can you show me in your trip-book any such cases? Turn up the 

 Pharsalia. A. That was a Grand Bank trip after Grand Bank codfish. 

 This is a trip after fresh halibut. The cases are not parallel. 



Q. Take a fresh-fish trawler and show me a consumption of 200 tons of 

 ice in 302 days. A. Here are the items for the schooner Marathon : 25 

 tons of ice, April to May, 1874; 23 tons, May 6 to June 14; 28 tons, 

 June 22 to July 31 ; 30 tons, August 4 to September 12 ; 15 tons, De- 

 cember and January ; total, 131 tons. Probably there are other vessels 

 that had more. 



Q. That is the highest quantity you can find ? A. No doubt I can 

 find a parallel case to that in the statement, because it is common. It 

 depends on how successful the vessel is in taking fish as to how much 

 ice is used. It is not an extraordinary occurrence to use 200 tons of ice 

 a year. 



By Mr. Davies : 



Q. I understood you to say that the abstracts you put in are correct! 

 A. After I had prepared the abstracts, to make sure they were correct 

 I spent almost as much time in verifying them as I had in making them 

 out. They agree within four cents. 



By Hon. Mr. Kellogg : 



Q. In regard to bait used in mackerel-fishing ; I suppose the quantity 

 of fish taken is not generally an exact indication of the quantity of bait 

 used ? A. No. Sometimes they will throw 50 or 75 barrels of bait and 

 not get 20 barrels of mackerel. 



Q. So it need excite no wonder that a good deal of bait had been used 

 with a small catch ? A. No. 



