2944 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Q. And have been in it ever since ? A. Yes. 



Q. How many vessels do you think you have run on an average, in- 

 cluding these you owned and those you managed for other people ? A. 

 About twelve annually. I have ten at the present time. 



Q. Starting from 1860, how many vessels had you in the bay then I 

 A. I think I had one. I had from one vessel to five vessels most of the 

 time. 



Q. How long have you been engaged in sending vessels to the bay f 

 A. Twenty years. 



Q. Do you think you have given the bay a fair trial ? A. I think 

 so. 



Q. What is your experience in the bay during those twenty years, as 

 far as regards pecuniary results ? A. It has not been so profitable with 

 us to send vessels there as on cod fishing. 



Q. Taking the bay mackerel fishery alone, has it been a profitable busi- 

 ness ? A. I thiuk not. 



Q. Have you given up bay fishing? A. Not wholly. We have one 

 there this season. 



Q. What is the name of the vessel ? A. The Russler. 



Q. Have you heard from her ? A. We heard about two weeks ago 

 that she had got eighty barrels. A gentleman who has come from the 

 bay has since told me she had sixty barrels. 



Q. The vessels you have sent down have been less in number than 

 those sent elsewhere ? A. Yes. 



Q. You have had one or two in the bay each season ? A. We had 

 five there one season. We never had more than three, except that 

 season. 



Q. How many vessels have you usually sent to the Banks ? A. I 

 should think they would average about six each season ; that is, includ- 

 ing those to George's Bank. 



Q. What has been the result of you rbanking business ? A. It has 

 been profitable. That is to say, not a large profit, but it has been more 

 profitable than mackereling in the bay. 



Q. Have you employed vessels in fishing at the South for mackerel 

 and off Massachusetts and Maine ? A. Yes. 



Q. What proportion of your vessels had been there mackerel-fishing, 

 more or less every year? A. Three or four. South a number of sea- 

 sons, and about five on our coast. 



Q. Those which go South only remain a short time ? A. Yes. 



Q. Fishing on our coast, they prosecute it the whole season, if they 

 have good luck ? A. Yes. 



Q. Until this year, when we know the fishing was poor on our coast, 

 except during the first part of the season, what has beeu your success 

 in fishing on the American coast ? A. We have done very well, indeed ; 

 it has been very profitable. 



Q. Have you also been engaged in the herring fishery ? A. Yes; the 

 frozen-herring business. 



Q. When did you go into that ? A. In the winter of 1868. 



Q. And followed it up to this time ? A. Yes, 



Q. Is it to buy or catch herring ? A. To buy, except in one instance, 

 wfien one of our vessels caught a small cargo. ' 



Q. What year was that ? A. The winter of 1873-'74. 



Q. How many vessels do you send ou'an average to buy herring ? 

 A. Five. 



Q. Where mostly ? A. On what we call the North shore, from East- 

 port to Beaver Harbor Deer Island mostly. 



