1946 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Q. But yon know, I suppose, where the principal market is for the 

 herring taken in yomyicinity ? A. Well, so far as I have knowledge, 

 I should suppose it would be in the American dominion. 



Q. What kind of herriug go there? A. We go to Bastport. Of 

 course, if we have pickled herring, we can dispose of them there to the 

 best advantage. 



Q. How far is it to Eastport ? A. We call it 20 miles from the side 

 of the island where we live. 



Q. How large a quantity of smoked herring is produced in your vicin- 

 ity ? A. About the island of Grand Manan ? 



Q. Yes. A. It varies. Some years there are more, and some years 

 less. I never have undertaken to make any estimate of it ; but it has 

 been talked of among us that two or three hundred thousand boxes 

 have been produced. 



Q. What proportion of these is sold in the Canadas, and what pro- 

 portion in the United States, as far as your judgment goes ? A. I am 

 not prepared to say, because I never go into such markets myself. 1 

 sell to nearer markets. 



Q. You do not know whether more go to the United States ? A. No. 

 I never went myself, even so far as Portland. 



Q. Then your answer is that you don't know ? A. Yes. 



Q. What do you know about frozen herring? What becomes of 

 that? A. We sell it from our own vessels sometimes. Mr. Gaskill, I 

 think, was the greatest trader of our folks to send them away. 



Q. To whom do they sell them ? A. They generally make their count 

 to sell the frozen herrings to the Americans that come there. 



Q. Well, is the trade with the Americans in frozen herrings, which 

 your people have, a valuable one to your people ? A. It is considered 

 so ; yes, sir. 



Q. If they did not sell them to the Americans, would they have a 

 market for the frozen herrings? A. I don't know of it. I don't know 

 that they could have. 



Q. How has the price of smoked herring stood of late years? Has it 

 been high or low ? A. Well, for the last two or three years it has been 

 quite low. 



Q. What is the reason ? A. Well, our folks talk as if it was the dull- 

 ness of the times. 



Q. Is there abundance of it ? A. Herrings ? There appears to be 

 full more than is made a good use of. 



Q. How much do the Americans fish for herrings in British waters, 

 in your vicinity ? Bo they buy more than they catch, or catch more 

 than they buy ? A. They buy more than they catch, as far as my 

 knowledge goes. 



Q. What do they pay your people in? A. Well, they bring flour 

 with them, and, if we choose, a man that wants flour takes it, and if 

 not, they give money. 



Q. \Vell, when the Americans catch herring to freeze, how do they 

 freeze it ? Do they freeze it on shore, or on the vessels ? A. 1 could 

 not correctly answer. So, 1 never knew them freeze it on shore. They 

 freeze them on deck. 



Q. They do not land to do it ? A. Not to my knowledge. 



Q. If your people were cut off from the American markets and could 

 not sell their fish there, what would the effect be upon them ? A. Well, 

 it is looked upon that we should be in poorer circumstances than we are 

 now. I have talked to some on that subject. They think we are in a 

 better standing than when we were paying the duty. As for myself 



