2818 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Q. Which was your main fishing-ground Prince Edward Island ? 

 A. Yes. 



Q. Is that the main fishing-ground of the fleet this summer ? A. I 

 could not tell you that. There are lots of vessels in during the whole 

 year ; they had tried in other places, but most mackerel had been got 

 at Magdalen Islands. 



Q. Name one vessel that has got mackerel at Magdalen Islands ? A. 

 The Eambler, Captain E. Johnson, 200 barrels; he is high-liner. 



Q. Where did you see him ? A. At Georgetown, two weeks ago. 



Q. What was he doing there ? A. He was there for a harbor. 



Q. Not there fishing? A. He had come across from Magdalen 

 Islands, having run short of outfit, and had to go to Canso to fit out. 



Q. How far is it from Georgetown to Magdalen Islands over 100 

 miles I A. About 140. 



Q. Could he not be running to Georgetown to fit, after fishing at 

 Magdalen Islands ? A. I can tell you how he came to be there. He 

 came from the Magdalen Islands, and was going to Canso to refit, and 

 on the way, there came on a breeze of wind, and he went to George- 

 town ; he will go back to the Magdalens. 



Q. He got 200 barrels ? A. Yes ; about 200 barrels. 



Q. You think be got them about the Magdalens ? A. Yes ; and Bird 

 Eocks. 



Q. When you were fishing, how many vessels were about Prince 

 Edward Island ? Tell me where you were fishing? A. We tried up 

 and down. We did not get a great many at the island. We got some 

 mackerel at Port Hood a few mackerel. 



Q. Did you not tell me that Prince Edward Island was your main 

 fishing-ground ? A. We were there most of the time, but we did not 

 get the most mackerel there. 



Q. Where did you get most of your mackerel, if not at Prince Edward 

 Island, Magdalen Islands, or Port Hood? A. We did not get a great 

 many anywhere. v We got most of our mackerel off Port Hood. 



Q. The first time you tried, you got none ? A. We went back after- 

 wards. 



Q. When fishing off Prince Edward Island, did you fish much off 

 East Point ? A. We fished some there. 



Q. You do not profess to say that you did not catch fish within the 

 limits there? A. I profess to say we did not catch many. I don't say 

 we did not catch any, but that the number was very small. 



Q. Are you prepared to say how many ; or did you pay any attention 

 to it ? A. No ; it is pretty hard to tell exactly. 



Q. You did not pay any attention to it? A. No. I think we did not 

 catch any worth speaking of. 



Q. Did you pay any particular attention to the three-mile limit? A. 

 A man who has business on hand knows where he has done best, and 

 calculates on going there again. If he does well at one place he always 

 bears it in mind to go there again. 



Q. Did you pay any particular attention to how far you were from 

 land when you caught your fish ? A. I took notice always when we 

 tried for mackerel, we tried for mackerel inshore and then out. 



Q. You went wherever you thought you could find mackerel ! A. 

 Yes. 



Q. This year you went in and out irrespective of the limit? A. Yes. 



Q. Did you see boats fishing much there ? A. We saw some boats 

 out in the bend of the island ; a good many mackerel boats were there. 

 We did not try much there. We went more round the Chapels. 



