3322 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



I further depose and say, that said schr. Tragabigzanda did Dot pay her 

 running expenses during the year 1876 by Two Thousand dollars. 



That said Molloy was discharged from our employ as being entirely 

 untrustworthy, and to the best of my belief, is now a resident^of New- 

 foundland, where he came from. 



In presence of CYRUS STOEY.) J. WARREN WONSON. 



I, Joseph Adams, a resident of Gloucester, County of Essex, State 

 of Massachusetts, on oath depose and say, that I was one of the crew 

 of schr. Tragabigzanda, of Gloucester, in 1876, on her second trip to the 

 Banks. That we fished on the Western Banks and off Cape Sable, and 

 that said schooner did not go near Newfoundland. All her fresh bait 

 having been bought at Shelburne and Prospect, Nova Scotia. 



his 



JOSEPH x ADAMS. 



mark. 



(In presence of FRANK E. SMOTHER & CYRUS STORY.) 



UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, COMMONWEALTH OF MAS- 

 SACHUSETTS. 



COUNTY OF ESSEX ss. CITY OF GLOUCESTER. 



Know all men by these present, that on this twentieth day of Octo- 

 ber, A. D., 1877, before me, Cyrus Story, a Notary Public, duly appointed 

 and sworn in and for the County of Essex, aforesaid, personally appeared 

 J. Warren Wonson and Joseph Adams, before named, who made oath 

 to the truth of the foregoing statements by them signed. In witness 

 whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Notarial Seal, the 

 day and year last above written. 



(L. S.) CYRUS STORY, 



Notary Public. 

 No. 257. 



GLOUCESTER, Sept. 3, 1877. 



I, Charles Martin, Master of the schr Martha C., of Gloucester, do on 

 oath depose and say, that I was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, am 40 

 years ot age, have been engaged in the fisheries for 30 years. I have 

 just returned from a trip to the Gulf of St. Lawrence for mackerel. I 

 commenced to fit my vessel for this trip July 3rd, 1877, and sailed from 

 Gloucester the 9th, arrived in the Bay on the 17th ; took my bait on 

 the coast of Maine. Took my first mackerel in Antigonish Bay, about 

 15 barrels on the hook, within three miles of the shore. We fished 

 between Cape George and East Point, we went around Prince Edward 

 Island, could not find any mackerel ; tried in the middle of the Bay, 

 between Cape George and East Point again ; caught 80 barrels on the 

 hook, from six to eight miles from shore. Afterward went to Margaree 

 and Chittigoug; took 80 barrels there, close into the shore. This was 

 all we got. We then cruised all around the Island and up off Cape 

 North, and did not find any mackerel. We then went to Pirate Cove 

 and refitted, and then went into the Bay again, and found no mackerel, 

 neither could 1 find any vessel that had seen any. I got entirely dis- 

 couraged and left the Bay, and came up on the Nova Scotia shore and 

 found no prospect of mackerel there, and came home ; found no vessels 

 doing anything. I arrived home the 1st of September. I packed out 

 40 barrels number ones, and 110 barrels of number twos, and 10 bar- 

 rels threes. My mackerel were worth $1,920.00. 



