AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 2727 



Q. You never saw anybody else doing so ? A. I say I never tried 

 with any fleet inside of three miles. 



Q. Did you ever see any other vessels fishing in that way within three 

 miles of the shore at the island * A. Yes. 



Q. How could you see them ? A. They were a distance off, trying 

 along. 



Q. There were vessels there besides you ? A. Yes. 



Q. What did you mean when you said you were always alone ? A. 

 Away from the fleet. 



Q. Were there, or were there not, other vessels with you when you 

 were so fishing ? A. At a distance from me. 



Q. What distance out ? A. Perhaps five or six miles along the 

 shore. 



Q. How many would there be? A. Ten or twelve going and Coming, 

 some one way and some another. As far as my eye could see J would 

 see vessels. 



Q. You saw vessels more or less all the time ? A. Yes. 



Q. You always saw them when off the shore? A. Most generally. 



Q. Is not the fleet accustomed to largely fish along there ? A. When 

 they strike mackerel they generally bunch up. When they cannot find 

 any they go flying all around the shores. 



Q. When they catch the mackerel schooling they bunch together, a 

 good many of them ? A. Yes. 



Q. How many ? A. As high as 105 sail. 



Q. Bound one school I A. Yes. 



Q. Catching mackerel off the island ? A. I did not say off the island. 



Q. Did you not understand that my questions had reference to the 

 north side of Prince Edward Island? A. I did not understand you to 

 say within the three-mile limit. 



Q. Did you understand me to refer to the north side of the island 

 when you spoke about the vessels being scattered about at one time, 

 and then being together in a bunch ? A. I did. 



Q. When you gave your answers to ine you had reference to Prince 

 Edward Island ? A. I said I had seen 150 sail of vessels off the coast 

 of the island. 



Q. And every time you have been there, you have seen vessels more 

 or less fishing off the coast ? A. Sailing up and down and trying to 

 fish. 



Q. And have you known any fish caught there ? A. Yes. 



Q. As to distances from the shore ; is there much difficulty in telling 

 the exact distance you are off shore ? A. Yes, I should judge there was. 



Q. A man might think he was three miles off when he was only two 

 and a half, or he might think he was outside the limits when he was 

 really very near the line of the limits, might he ? A. Yes. The way 

 I have always found it is this : if we thought we were a mile and a half 

 off shore, and we pulled to shore, we would find it three or four miles. 



Q. Where used you to harbor at the island ? A. I have been into 

 about all the harbors there. W'e used to anchor a good deal to a lee. 



Q. Where ? A. Off East Point. 



< L >. There is a good lee off East Point? A. Yes. 



Q. You never had any difficulty io running round the point when the 

 wind was from the northwest and getting a good'lee ? A. No. 



Q. And when the wind was from the other side you slipped round the 

 point? A. Yes. 



Q. There is no difficulty about doing that ? A. No. 



Q. It is perfectly safe ? A. No, it is not perfectly safe. 



