2820 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Q. I presume so. A. I never saw her ; I don't know a vessel of that 

 name. 



Q. Do you know what the Frederick Gering,jr., got! She is reported 

 with 330 barrels. A, Then they have got a big spurt. 



Q. You never heard of her ! A. Yes, I did ; I heard she had 150 

 barrels. 



Q. When did you hear that ? A. I should judge about two weeks ago. 



Q. Were all of those vessels in the bay two weeks ago ? A. I did not 

 see the vessels, but I have talked with the men. 



Q. How many vessels were there in the bay when you left ? A. There 

 were about 35 sail of vessels with us when we went out of Causo. 



Q. How many did you leave when you came away ! A. I could not 

 tell. 



Q. Thirty-five or forty vessels ! A. I should estimate over that, but 

 that number is of those we saw there. 



Q. Do you know what the David F. Low got ? A. I could not tell 

 positively ; I have heard reports. 



Q. How many seasons have you been in the bay ! A. About seven- 

 teen seasons. 



Q. As master ? A. No. 



Q. As hand ? A. As hand, except this last year, when I was in the 

 bay as master. 



Q. You must have been fishing in the bay ever since you went into 

 the bay at all ! A. All but two seasons. 



Q. Where did you fish then ? A. On the American shore; on George's 

 La Have, and Grand Banks, two years ; I was master. 



Q. What years were they? A. Last year and the year before. 



Q. During the years you fished iu the bay, you fished both inside an<3 

 outside the limits ? A. We tried all over. 



Q. Inside and outside ? A. To the best of my knowledge we caughl 

 most of the mackerel off shore. 



Q. You think you did ? A. I am positive of it ; all the largest spurts. 

 I have caught as high as 130 barrels with hooks off shore. We caught 

 them about nine miles off Entry Island, to the southeast ; we got 130 

 barrels from nine o'clock in the morning till half past four o'clock in 

 the afternoon. 



Q. Have you fished much about Margaree ? A. Yes ; a great deal 

 round Margaree. 



Q. I believe in the fall nearly all the vessels fish there ! A. They 

 used to do so years ago; these last years there does not seem to have, 

 been anything round there. 



Q. What years do you speak of! A. This year and last year. My 

 brother was down in the bay last year, and he told me about it then. 



Q. This year you did not fish about Margaree much ! A. We trie< 

 there, but did not take more than half a barrel. 



Q. That is known as one of the best fishing grounds in the fall f A 

 It used to be counted the best. 



Q. Up to the last two years ! A. It was when I was in the bay ; tha 

 is, in the fall. 



Q. Most of the fleet went to fish there in the fall ! A. There was a 

 large part which did not fish there. I used to be in Nova Scotia ves 

 sels, and during the largest part of that time we saw very few Ameri 

 can vessels. 



Q. At the time when you catch them inshore it always happens you 

 are in provincial vessels f A. It is not that at all. Most of the vessels 

 would not content themselves staying in ; they would go away before 



