2720 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Q. Did you fish in the bay at all during the Reciprocity Treaty, from 

 1854 to 1866 ? A. Yes, I did so in 1858. 



Q. Did you fish inshore then ? A. We tried inshore and got five bar- 

 rels of mackerel in August, off Cape George, with a seine. 



Q. Where is Cape George ? A. It is before you get to Pictou. 



Q. Did you not fish along the shore of Prince Edward Island last 

 year? A. No. 



Q. Or off Margaree ? A. No. 



Q. Did you get a full fare then ? A. No, nor half a fare. 



Q. You then knew that you had a right to go inshore and fish ? A. 

 No, I did not know anything about it, nor did the captain. 



Q. I understand you to say that you went there in 1858 and did not 

 know that you had a right to go and fish within three miles of the shore ? 

 A. I did not. 



Q. You did not know that the Reciprocity Treaty was in force and 

 that it gave you a right to fish where you pleased ?" A. No ; I was a 

 hand then. 



Q. Did you understand from the captain that the reason he kept off 

 shore was because he was afraid of the cutters ? A. No ; he was not 

 afraid of the cutters. 



Q. Why did you not go inshore ? A. If he saw mackerel in or off shore 

 he would have seined them. 



Q. You did not get a full fare ? A. No. 



Q. When did you enter the bay ! A. About the last of July. 



Q. And when did you go out ? A. The last of October. 



Q. You only made one trip ? A. Yes. 



Q. Where were you fishing all that time ? A. Broad off shore and on 

 Bank Bradley. 



Q. Broad off shore ? A. Between the Magdalen Islands and Cape 

 Breton. 



Q. Were you fishing near East Point, Prince Edward Island? A. No,, 

 we did not go near East Point, but we were off North Cape once. 



Q. You were not broad off East Point at all ? A. No ; but the vessel 

 was broad off between the Magdalen Islands and Cape Breton. 



Q. When was this f A. In 1858. 



Q. And yet you did not know that you had then a right to go inshore 

 to fish ? A. I did not mind anything about it. 



Q. Why did you not suggest it to the captain since you were interest- 

 ed in getting a full fare? A. I had nothing at all to say in the matter. 



Q. You were a sharesman? A. Y"es. 



Q. Why, then, did you not suggest to the captain to go and fish in- 

 shore off Prince Edward Island ? A. He might have told me to mind 

 my own business. 



Q. But this was your business ? A. If a man, while I was skipper, 

 said anything like that to me, I would tell him to mind his own business, 

 and that I would attend to my own. 



Q. Is it not the business of a sharesuiau to do so ? A. No; they are 

 on what we call half lines. 



Q. Then, in 1858, although you had the right to fish inshore, you ab- 

 solutely kept out in the middle of the bay, only got half a fare, and 

 staid there from July to October ? A. We tried inshore at Cape 

 George, and we thought eur luck would be the same at other places. 



By Mr. Foster : i 



Q. Did you ever try seining in the gulf? A. Yes; in 1858, 1859, and 

 1860, in one vessel. 



