2722 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Q. How many barrels did you catch ? A. 200. 



Q. What portion of these were caught inside the three-mile limit ? 

 A. 7 or 8 barrels ; we fished ou Bank Bradley and along the Escuminac 

 shore, off the west coast. 



Q. Were you in the bay or on our shore in 1857 ? A. I was then on 

 our shore. 



Q. What were you doing ? A. Seining. 



Q. How many barrels did you take? A. About 500. 



Q. That was the best business you had yet done ? A. Yes. 



Q. Ou what part of the American coast did you fish ? A. From Mount 

 Desert to Cape Cod. 



Q. In what vessel were you in 1858? A. The Sarah B. Harris; I 

 then made my first experience as master. 



Q. How many trips did you make to the bay in 185S ? A. Two. 



Q. What did you catch f A. 130 barrels on the first and 170 barrels 

 on the second. 



Q. Where did you catch the 130 barrels ? A. At the Magdalen Islands. 



Q. Where did you make your second trip ? A. At the Magdalen 

 Islands and at Margaree broad off Margaree Island. 



Q. How many of these 300 barrels do you think were caught within 

 3 miles of the shore ? A. Well, as well as I could judge, we might have 

 so caught 15 barrels. 



Q. Were you in the bay in 1859 ? A. Yes; in the Trenton. 



Q. W^ere you mackerel or cod fishing? A. I was cod-fishing one trip 

 and mackereling one trip. 



Q. You were first cod-fishing ? A. Yes. 



Q. Where? A. On Banks Orphan and Bradley. 



Q. Were you successful ? A. Yes. 



Q. Where did you make your second trip? A. In the bay, for mackerel. 



Q. What did you then catch ? A. About 145 barrels. 



Q. Where did you get them ? A. We caught the most of them off 

 Cape George, On Fisherman's Bank. 



Q. Did you catch any portion of them within three miles of the 

 coast? A. Yes. 



Q. About what portion? A. 10 or 12 barrels, I should judge; they 

 were caught around Pornquet Island. 



Q. What did you do in I860? A. I was banking. 



Q. Cod fishing? A. Yes. 



Q. Did you do well? A. Yes; very well, indeed. 



Q. Did you go into the bay the same year ? A. No ; I did not again 

 go into the bay until 1862. 



Q. In 1861 you were on the American coast ? A. Yes. 



Q. Mackereling? A. Yes. 



Q. Seining ? A. Yes. 



Q. How many barrels did you take ? A. 500, I think. 



Q. Where were you in 1862? A. In the bay, in the schooner Roger 

 Williams. 



Q. How many trips did you make? A. Two. 



Q. How much did you get ? A. 300 barrels each trip. 



Q. Where did you catch them! A. Most of them at Magdalen 

 Islands. 



Q. Any portion of them inshore ? A. Yes. 



Q. What portion, do you think? A. Probably we got 20 barrels in-, 

 shore. 



Q. In 1863 where were you! A. On our shores. From that time np 



