1948 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Q. Is there au abundant supply for your fishermen ? A. Of fish, 

 yes. 



Q. Xow, I did not like to ask some of the witnesses that we had here 

 the other day from your neighborhood as to their own pecuniary condi- 

 tion, but I would like to know whether Mr. McLaughlin, Mr. McLean, 

 Mr. Lord, and those other gentlemen that have been examined before 

 the Commission here are growing poor or improving their financial con- 

 dition ? A. I can't say I am acquainted with Mr. Lord or McLean. I 

 have seen them, but not to have acquaintance with them. 



Q. How about Mr. McLaughlin 1 A. I have been acquainted with 

 him from a boy. 



Q. Well, he is prosperous, is he not ? A. Yes ; he seems to be. He 

 is not a fisherman. I think he once made an estimation in regard to 

 this subject. 



Q. Is not he in the fishing business ? A. I do not know that he ever 

 hove a line. 



Q. You have spoken of smoked fish going to the United States. 

 Where does the herring-oil go ? A. They do send some of that, too. 



Q. What is done with the hake sounds ? Is that an important mat- 

 ter ? A. It is. It is a more paying product than the fish itself. I saw 

 them sold at Eastport for 50 cents a pound. 



Q. What do they do with those ! A. They manufacture them into 

 different things. 



Q. Do they make gum-drops out of them H A. Some do. 



Q. Isinglass I A. Yes. 



Q. Do you say the hake sound is worth more than the fish ? A. 

 Well, three weeks ago they would not oifer but 75 cents for 262 pounds 

 of green hake, but they would give 50 cents a pound for sound. Then 

 for the livers they would get 40 cents. 



Q. Then the gurry of the hake is worth more than the fih? A. Well, 

 it is not exactly gurry. 



Q. I have one question more to ask. Do the American fishermen 

 down in your neighborhood behave any worse than the British? A. I 

 think not. I think I have had worse people in ray own boats. Some 

 years ago we did have some from Cape Ann who killed fowls and pulled 

 up potatoes. But we never had any half so bad as some of our own. 

 Some from Deer Island. They killed tame ducks right in the yards. 



By Mr. Thomson : 



Q. You live in Grand Manau ? A. Yes. 



Q. You are not a practical fisherman yourself. You do not fish ! A. 

 I have not for two years. I just left the smoked herring to theboys. 



Q. All that fishing is done in weirs ! A. The herring has been. 



Q. You had weirs on the shore? That is the way you chiefly conduct 

 your fisheries ? A. Mine is an inshore weir. Some are away out in the 

 deep water. 



Q. Then I understand that you have not ever pursued as a business 

 fishing in boats, but always in weirs ? A. No, not so. My line-fishing 

 was boat fishing. 



Q. To what extent have you ever carried on boat-fishing ? A. Well, 

 I have said, nothing more than principally to support my family. I fish 

 to get some little necessaries for my family. 



Q. I suppose every man on Grand Man an who owns a bit of land 

 would, during his leisure time, take his boat and get as much fish as 

 he could for his family ? A. They ought to, unless they have something 

 to prevent them. 



