AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 2735 



< v >. Did you fish at all at Margaree that year! A. No. 



Q. Did you fish off Cascumpeque and Kustico, on the northern shore 

 of the island ? A. Yes. 



Q. Did you fish there after you got back from Miramichi? A. Yes; 

 off Cascumpeque we did. 



Q. Inshore? A. When we were coming out of the harbor we ran. 

 in there to make a harbor we fished coming down. 



Q. Did you get good fish ? A. We got better fish than we found down 

 otl' Sotiris. 



Q. How many barrels did you catch there? A. Somewhere about 50 

 or 00 wash barrels ; I could not give the exact quantity. 



Q. But they were good fish ? A. They were as good as any in the 

 h;ty. 



Q. You have no respect as a rule for bay mackerel ? A. Oh, yes. 



Q. Are there good mackerel in the bay ? A. Yes; some years they 

 are first rate and some years they are poor. 



Q. I suppose this is the case everywhere ? A. Yes. 



Q. As a rule there is good fishing in the bay ? A. It is not as good 

 as it is on our shore, as a rule. 



Q. Do you catch mackerel within the three-mile limit on your shore? 

 A. Yes. 



Q. Will you swear to that ? A. Yes ; I so caught some myself this 

 season. 



Q. Is it a usual thing to catch them there within the three-mile limit, 

 or has this been the case during the last eight or ten years? A. I do 

 not think that it is. 



Q. Then you do not wish the Commission to understand that your 

 shore fishery is carried on within the three-mile limit? A. No, not on 

 the whole. 



Q. Your shore fishery is prosecuted from 10 to 15 and 50 miles from 

 the coast ? A. Yes ; and 150 miles from it, off on George-'s Bank. 



Q. That is what you call your shore fishery ? A. Yes. 



Q. In point of fact no mackerel are caught as a rule within 3 miles of 

 your shore ? A. Oh, yes. 



Q. Is there good mackerel-fishing there within the three-mile limit? 

 A. Yes. 



Q. And this always has been so ? A. Yes ; there is some nice fishing 

 there. 



Q. And the American witnesses who have testified here that there is 

 no fishing to speak of there within the three-mile limit are entirely mis- 

 taken ? A. Yes ; I testify to my own experience. 



Q. When were you fishing within 3 miles of your shore in a vessel ? 

 A. Last summer, and for two days this summer. 



Q. Where did you so fish last summer f A. All up and down the 

 coast of Maine, and .right in within 3 or 4 miles of Monhiggin. 



Q. I am speaking of the three-mile limit. A. It might have been 3 

 or 4 miles off shore. 



Q. Do you not know that this is a very vague statement ? Will you 

 swear that you fished last ye'ar along your coast and caught mackerel 

 within 3 miles of your shore ? A. Yes. 



Q. To any extent ? A. No, I won't say that. 



Q. What proportion of your catch last year was taken within 3 miles 

 of your shore ? A. Well, a very small proportion. I was only so fish- 

 ing a very short time. 



Q. The great bulk of the catch off the American shore is taken from 

 10 to 50 miles out ? A. I do not know about that. 



