2730 AWARD OF THE FISHERY- COMMISSION. 



By Mr. Foster : 



Q. Where were the mackerel taken which you caught! A. The,first 

 we caught were taken close inshore at the Miramichi Bar, or in other 

 words, I might say, close to the mouth of Miramichi Harbor, where we 

 went to make a harbor. 



Q. That is outside of Miramichi Bay ? A. Yes. Our fishermen call 

 it a harbor, where we can get round under the lee of the wind, and we 

 can get round that bar and make a good harbor with the wind in a cer- 

 tain direction. 



Q. How many barrels of mackerel did you get there? A. Something 

 like 30 or 40. I was then in the Grace L. Fears. We then came across 

 off North Cape, and I think that we got some 60 or 70 barrels more be- 

 tween there and North Cape, broad off shore. 



Q. At what distance from the shore ? A. Well, I think 10 or 12 miles 

 likely, or 15 miles. 



Q. Where did you go from there ? A. We fished down off North Cape 

 and around there ; we tried for one or two days, and then we went up 

 around West Cape and came back again. We principally fished up and 

 down the island. 



Q. Did you fish up and down Prince Edward Island on the north 

 side ? A. We did so on the east side. 



Q. What do you call the east side ? A. The part between North Cape 

 and East Point. 



Q. How far from the shore did you fish off the bend of the island ? 

 A. Well, with the exception of the time when we were coming out of 

 Cascumpeque, we fish outside of the three-mile limit. 



Q. How far from the shore ? A. From 12 to 20 miles, I should say, 

 or something in that neighborhood. 



Q. Measured from where ? A. The main land. 



Q. From the extreme bend of the island ? A. No ; but from the near- 

 est land opposite where we were. 



Q. You have told us the places were you fished that year within three 

 miles of the shore? A. Yes; with the exception of the time when we 

 were coming out of Cascumpeque Harbor. We then got about 50 wash 

 barrels. I think we might have hove to somewhere about, I won't say 

 within the three-mile limit, outside the bar, among the fishing boats, and 

 drifted right off, so that, while doing so, we got about 60 wash barrels. 



Q. Which was the next previous year when you were in the gulf? 

 A. 1872 ; I was then in the Waverley, Captain Tarr. 



Q. How many barrels did you catch ? A. We brought home 230. 



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

 Prince Edward Island, between East Point and North Cape, up and 

 down the island well, from New London up off North Cape and broad 

 off the island. 



Q. How far from the shore of the island did you usually fish ? A. I 

 never was fishing within the limits with the exception of one voyage, 

 and I caught very few mackerel there. 



Q. To what voyage do you refer ! A. To the one I made in the Grace 

 L. Fears in 1874. 



Q. Where else besides off the island did you fish in 1872 in the Wav- 

 erley ? A. Between East Point and the Magdalen Islands, and up on 

 Banks Bradley and Orphan ; I also fished up and down the island, 10, 

 15, or 20 miles up off North Cape. 



Q. What was the next previous year when you were in the bay ? A. 

 I will not be sure whether it was in 1868 or 1869. 



Q. Who was captain of the vessel f A. Mitchell. 



