AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 2731 



Q. You have brought no memoranda with you ? A. No; I could not 

 make up any, as far as that goes, for that voyage. 



Q. All you have done is to put down what your recollection enables 

 you to state ? A. Yes. 



Q. You have no books or anything to guide you in this regard? A. 

 No. 



Q. What did you do while you were with Captain Mitchell? A. We 

 took 240 barrel^ of mackerel. 



Q. Where ? A. On Banks Bradley and Orphan, and at the Magdalen 

 Islands. 



Q. Did you get any of them anywhere else ? A. No. 



Q. In what schooner were you in your next previous year in the bay ? 

 A. The Laura H. Dodd. 



Q. During how many years were you in her? A. Two; 1864 and 

 1865. 



Q. How many trips did you make during each of these years ? A. 

 Two. 



Q. How many barrels of mackerel did vou take in your two trips in 

 1S64? A. About 700, 1 think. 



Q. Where ? A. At the Magdalen Islands. 



Q. Were any of them caught inshore, except at the Magdalen Islands? 

 A. No. 



Q. Whereabouts at the Magdalen Islands were they caught ? A. At 

 Bird Hocks, principally. 



Q. Is that true of both trips ? A. Well, during both, and more es- 

 pecially during the first trip, we got a great many barrels at the Bird 

 Kocks. 



Q. Did you fish inshore anywhere? A. No. 



Q. The next year, 1865, you were in the Laura L. Dodd? A. Yes. 



Q. And you made two trips ? A. Yes. 



Q. How many barrels did you catch ? A. About 600, 1 think, 



Q. Where? A. On Banks Bradley and Orphan, and at the Magdalen 

 Islands and off East Point; and a few were taken up and down the island. 



Q. How far from land did you fish off East Point? A. It might have 

 been, I should say, 15 or 20 miles. 



Q. How far from the land was it ? A. We were outside the limits, and 

 from 10 to 20 miles off; no mackerel were to be got inshore at all. We 

 tried inshore. 



By Mr. Thomson : 



Q. You have not fished since 1874? A. No; not in the bay ; but I 

 have on our shore. 



Q. When was your last trip made before 1874 ? A. In 1873. 



Q. And when was your next and previous trip made in 1872 ? A. 

 No. 



Q. Did you not state, in direct examination, that you fished in 1872. 

 in the bay? A. I believe I did not yes; I was in the Waverley in 1872. 



Q. I thought you said that you came here without memoranda ? A. 

 I did not come with any ; but I made a hasty sketch of my fishing ex- 

 perience the other night when I was coming down here on the steamer. 

 I have nothing here that amounts to anything. 



Q. Do you recollect, in those memoranda, that you were in the bay in 

 1872? A. Yes. 



Q. In what vessel ? A. The Waverley. 



Q. If I understood you rightly, in 1874, your last year in the bay, you 

 caught over one hundred barrels inshore? A. Yes. I would not say 



