2770 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Q. What is if? A. Sometimes there is extra cost about them, I 

 think. 



Q. But ordinarily I mean ? A. They are all built as well as we can 

 have them built. 



Q. Is such a vessel copper-fastened ? A. Yes. 



Q. And coppered on the bottom ? A. No. 



A. What is there extra about her ? A. This is the copper fastening. 



Q. Does that cost very much ? A. I could not say. 



Q. Although you undertake to say that this is the common price 

 a ton you cannot tell whether copper fastening increases the price 

 materially or not ? A. When we contract for a vessel we contract that 

 she shall be built with copper fastenings. 



Q. And you cannot tell whether copper fastening increases the price 

 much or not ? A. Well, our vessels are all copper-fastened. 



Q. You cannot tell whether copper fastening increases the price or 

 not ? A. I could not say how much. 



Q. Are you aware that vessels are now built in the States, which are 

 classed for 10 years, and sold for'$60 a ton ? A. I do not know that. 



Q. Are you aware that 1,000-toii vessels are now built and classed 

 for ten years, at that rate ? A. I am not. 



Q. Are you aware that this is not so ? A. No, I could not say that. 



Q. You are not familiar with this class of vessels 1 A. I am not 

 familiar with that class of vessels. 



Q. When you speak of the wear and tear of these vessels, at what 

 time do they come into the bay ? A. In July generally. 



Q. And when do they go out ? A. In the last part of October. 



Q. What do you do with them for the remainder of the season ? A. 

 They go winter fishing and shore fishing. 



Q. On your own coast ? A. Yes. 



Q. How long do they fish there ? A. During the winter principally. 



Q. During the whole winter? A. Principally, yes. 



Q. Is not the whole or the chief part of this wear and tear sustained 

 upon your own coast? A. I do not think that it is. 



Q. Then you wish the Commission to understand that although your 

 vessels are only in the Bay of St. Lawrence during the summer months 

 and the early fall months, all the wear and tear, or a large portion of it, 

 takes place there; and that very little takes place in the winter months 

 on your own coast ? A. I do not mean to say any such thing. 



Q. What do you mean to say ? I ask you whether such wear and tear 

 is not chiefly sustained on your own coast when fishing in winter ? A. 

 I suppose that more wear and tear is suffered on our coast in winter than 

 would be the case in the Bay of St. Lawrence in summer; this would be 

 the case. 



Q. More than that are not heavy snow-storms, and frost, and rain, 

 and wind then encountered on your coast, and after they have been wet, 

 does not the frost crack the sails ? A. During a storm in winter the 

 vessels generally seek a harbor. 



Q. But before they get under cover do not the wind and snow and ice 

 affect the sails? A. I do not think that it would injure the sails to have 

 snow and ice on them. 



Q. Then I understand you to say that sails which get wet and are 

 frozen are not injured by it ? A. I do not think they are as long as they 

 are not used. ' , 



Q. Then the sails which are wet and frozen and thawed out again in 

 the winter are not injured by it, but they are injured by summer gales 

 in the Gulf of St. Lawrence? A. They are injured a great deal more 



