2726 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Q. Can you remember the name of the vessel you were in when you 

 staid till the last of November ? A. Roger Williams. 



Q. That was in 1862, was it ? A. Yes ; we went adrift. We had to 

 leave. 



Q. Can you remember the time ? A. I cannot remember the time. 



Q. Was it the last of November ? A. It was somewhere about the 

 first. 



Q. How do you mean you went adrift ? A. We never stay in the bay 

 till the last of November. We always reckon to be out of the bay by 

 the 10th of November. 



Q. You mean the last of October ? A. Yes. 



Q. Is it not the first of October they leave the Magdalen Islands ! 

 A. About the last. 



Q. A witness (Mr. Cook) who preceded you said 'that from the 5th to 

 the 10th of October they left there. Where else did you fish that year 

 in the Franklin S. Schank? A. At East Point, Prince Edward Island. 



Q. How did you fish there; did you go inshore and drift out? A. 

 What we caught we caught to an anchor inshore. 



Q. Did you try fishing and drifting off? A. Yes. 



Q. Were there any vessels with you ? A. There were not any the 

 day we caught our mackerel. They were all in the harbor at Souris. 



Q. When you were fishing, drifting off the land, were there any other 

 vessels there ! A. Yes. 



Q. Lots of them ? A. Yes. 



Q. How many would you say ? A. 30 or 40 sail. 



Q. All engaged in the same mode of fishing ? A. Yes. 



Q. Is there not a larger fleet generally found off East Point than 30 or 

 40 sail ? A. Sometimes there are more, and sometimes less. 



Q. Sometimes a good deal larger ? A. That was about an average 

 that year. 



Q. Can you remember, leaving out the Franklin S. Schauk, what pro- 

 portion of the mackerel which you caught in the bay fourteen years ago 

 was taken within three miles of shore ? A. I think about one-ninth part, 

 as near as I could judge from the little experience I had. 



Q. Your experience was not much ? A. No. 



Q. Did you ever fish about Seven Islands ? A. No. 



Q. Nor in Bay Chaleurs ? A. No. 



Q. Nor along the west shore of New Brunswick, from Miscou to Mir- 

 michi ? A. Off shore I have a little. 



Q. You have never tried within three miles of the shore ? A. No j 

 not off that shore. 



Q. Did you fish round the bend of Prince Edward Island ? A. Yes; 

 I have tried there. 



Q. Did you ever try within three miles of the shore, except at East 

 Point! A. Yes. 



Q. Whereabouts ? A. Off St. Peter's, New London Head, and all 

 along what we call the Sand Hills. 



Q. Did you try many times there? A. Different times, yes. 



Q. And you always tried by going in and drifting off! A. No; the 

 wind would not always allow us to do that. Sometimes we would drift 

 north and south. The wind would not always be right offshore, and it 

 all depends on the wind. Sometimes we drifted along the shore ; some- 

 times from north and south ; sometimes in and sometimes out. 



Q. The fleet all pursued the same mode of fishing ? A. When I was 

 trying along there I was always alone. I never happened to be in any 

 fleet when fishing there. 



