AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. ' , 2721 



< v >. With what success ? A. Very little indeed. 

 (). Those were tbe years when you got these poor fares ? A. Yes ; we 

 each made about $75 the whole summer. 

 Q. What sort of seines did you use ? A. The purse-seine. 

 Q, Did you do so as early as 1858! A. Yes; we had them on our 



shore. 



Q. You were at Seven Islands ? A. Yes, with purse-seines, but got 

 nothing. We stopped a good while there and we thus threw a great 

 deal of our time away. 



Q. You thus seined in 1858, 1859, and I860 ? A. Yes ; we were at 

 Seven Islands in 1858. 



Q. What was the name of your schooner and the name of the cap- 

 tain ? A. The former was named the Potomac, and the latter, Nehemiah 

 Adams. 



Q. That was quite early for purse-seines? A. We had purse seines 

 for pogies and mackerel years before that at home ; that is the way in 

 which we catch pogies altogether on our shore. I have seen vessels 

 belonging to this place at Seven Islands, which stopped until fall and 

 came away without a barrel. 



So. 03. 



JOHN CONLEY, Jr., fisherman, of Bockport, Mass., was called on be- 

 half of the Government of tbe United States, sworn and examined. 



By Mr. Dana : 



Question. What is your age ? Answer. It is 43. 



Q. You have lived in Gloucester nearly all your life ? A. Yes ; with,' 

 the exception of 10 years, during which I have lived in Bockport. 



Q. Is this place in a different customs district? A. No; we have ar 

 deputy collector at Bockport, but we have to go to Gloucester to get 

 our papers. 



Q. When did you first fish in the Bay of St. Lawrence? A. In 1854. 



Q. What was the name of the vessel in which you were that year? 

 A. The C. C. Davis. 



Q. You made one trip that year ? A. Yes. 



Q. How many barrels of mackerel did you catch ? A. 175. 



Q. Were they caught off or in shore ? A. They were taken offshore. 



Q. All of them ? A. All with the exception of a few barrels, perhaps 

 five, which wer.e caught inshore. 



Q. In what vessel were you in 1855? A. The Bacer. We made one 

 trip. 



Q. How many barrels did you catch? A. 250. 



Q. Where did yora first fish? A. On Bank Bradley. 



Q. And then ? A. We next went down to the Magdalen Islands. 



Q. How much of these 250 barrels did you catch at the Magdalen 

 Islands? A. We got almost the whole of them there. 



Q. Where did you catch the rest ? A. Around East Point and scat- 

 tered along the shore. 



Q. lu 1855 you had the right to fish where you liked ? A. Yes. 



Q. And you knew that? A. Yes. 



<,>. Did you attempt inshore fishing? A. Yes. 



< v >. And you think that you gave it a fair trial f A. Yes. 



(,>. What portion of your entire cargo did you catch inside of three 

 miles of the shore that year? A. Perhaps 15 barrels out of the 250. 



Q. Were you in the bay in 1866? A. Yes ; in the Belvidere. 

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