AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 1929 



Q. Are the people there willing to sell you bait f A. Yen. Tbey arc 

 glad to see us come. 



Q. Do you have to go and look them up? A. They look us up. They 

 board us at St. Peter's, and go in with us. They come out to Hell bait 

 to the French, and while we are there, perhaps (> or 7 different men will 

 come aboard and take us in to get bait. 



Q. This purchase of bait is a business which the people of Newfound 

 laud solicit? A. Yes; if it was not for the American fishermen, I 

 should think that the people of Fortune Bay would starve : thin i what 

 maintains them. 



Q. What do you do there in winter! A. I go there and trade for 

 herring. 



Q When you leave Gloucester to trade for herring, what do you take 

 from Gloucester ? How do you clear ? A. Sometimes I have gone 

 under register, and more frequently under fishing papers. 



Q. What fishing papers ? A. The same as I have now. 



Q. Do you take a- permit to touch and trade ? A. Yes. 



Q. What do you take with you ? A. Mostly money; but also a little 

 flour and pork and kerosene oil. 



Q. When you get to Newfoundland, do you enter your vessel at the 

 custom-house ? A. Yes. 



Q. And do you pay a duty on your goods ! A. Yes. 



Q. Then on the goods you bring for trading purposes, you pay cus- 

 toms duty ? A. Yes. % 



Q. And having done so, you trade with the inhabitants ! A. Yes; 

 we pay money enough for light dues, without paying any other duty. 



Q. You pay the duty on your goods when .you go in ? A. Yes. 



Q. Do you remember what it is! A. We pay, I think, 1 a barrel 

 on pork, 25 cents a barrel on flour, and 14 or 15 per cent, on kerosene 

 -oil that is on cost prices. 



Q. Where do you then go for herring? A. Generally to I^onjj Harbor. 



Q. How do you get your herring? A. We go there and, having an- 

 chored, we build a scaffolding all over the vessel just as level as a table, 

 and having bought the herring, we spread them on this scaffolding and 

 freeze them. 



Q. Where do you buy your boards with which you make the scaffold 

 ing? A. Sometimes we bring our own down, and sometimes wo pro- 

 cure them on -our way down. 



Q. And you build a scaffolding all over the vessel ? -A. Yes ; alx 

 10 or 12 feet from the deck. 



Q. And having bought the herring, you free/e them there! 



Q. From whom do you buy the herring? A. From the native*. 



Q. Do they come to you with boats T A. Yes. 



Q. Do your people assist in catching the herring t- 

 times we might be over on the beacli and lend a hand to haul 

 but we have to pay them for the fish. 



Q. You take no seines with you ? A. No; and if our men 

 natives in hauling the seinos we get nothing tor it. 

 from them. 



Q. You buy the fish and freeze them ! A. \es. 



Q. You take them home, and they are used partly for li 

 for food ? A. Yes. 



Q. Do you salt them ? A. No. 



Q. You have been in this business for three years 

 so occupied for fifteen winters. 



