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Q. What was tbe result ? A. I can only give'.it in'general terms ; it 

 \\ ; is rather unsatisfactory. I have not the figures with me. 



(,. How did it compare with the result you obtained in the gulf? A. 

 Unfavorably, except as to the first large catch I had. 



Q. Unfavorably, with respect to which fishery ? A. The provincial. 



Q. Which was the best fishery ? A. We were rather more successful 

 on our own shore than we were in the bay.*^r^ 



Q. Did you again try fishing in the gulf in 1873 ? A. Yes. 



Q. How many vessels had you then there? A. I have only a mem- 

 orandum of one. 



Q. How many trips did she make? A. One; she shipped home mack- 

 erel ; on the 5th of August I received 128 barrels, and in December 53 

 barrels. This vessel was lost in the gale of that year, in October, I 

 think, off the Magdalen Islands. Her entire catch was 181 barrels. 



Q. Did this pay? A. It probably would pay the expenses. 



Q. How many vessels had you fishing in the gulf in 1874? A. One 

 only. 



Q. What did she take? A. I have 18G barrels down for her the 

 exact quantity we packed. 



Q. What number of vessels had you in the bay in 1875 ? A. One, 

 which got during the season about 240 barrels. 



Q. What was her first catch ! A. The first sent home was 179 bar- 

 rels. 



Q. Were those fish caught with hooks, or the purse-seine ? A. A 

 small portion of them, was caught, I am informed, with the seine, and a 

 very large proportion with the hook. 



Q. Have you any information as to what proportion ? A. I think 

 that in the vessel which I sent out in 1873 they obtained, probably, 

 more than 100 barrels with the seine, but in 1874 and 1875, when the 

 vessels had seines, I am not aware of them so securing any. 



Q. What did you do in 1876? A. I then dispatched one vessel to 

 the bay, and she sent home 47 barrels ; she was lost in a, gale at Port 

 Hood in October, when she went ashore. 



Q. Did you then give up fishing? A. I have done nothing at it this 

 year. 



Q. What can you tell us about the menhaden fisheries in the United 

 States? A. I have had some general experience in that business; I 

 have employed, vessels in the menhaden fishery for bait. 



Q. Where did they bring their cargoes of menhaden ? A. To Glouces- 

 ter. 



Q. Were any part of them shipped to Prince Edward Island ? A. I 

 have frequently sold bait to be shipped to Prince Edward Island and 

 tho Strait of Oanso, and I have myself shipped them there. 



Q. Do you know whether orders are received at Gloucester from the 

 island and other places in the provinces for menhaden ? A. Yes, from 

 the fact that I have very frequently received them myself, and have so 

 sold menhaden almost every year more or less. This present year I 

 have sold some to go there. 



Q. Have you been engaged in the business of buving frozen herring ? 

 A. Yes. 



Q. For how many years! A. I should say it is now about 20 years 

 since I commenced doing so. 



Q. Where did you first buy frozen herring ? A. I think that my first 

 voyages were made to Newfoundland, on its south shore, in Fortune Bay, 

 and to other ports in that direction. 

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