AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Q. There are many persons there who make a business of tishing alto- 

 gether ? A. Yes. 



Q. You are not one of those? A. No; I never lived solely by it. I 

 always had a little bit of laud to work. 



Q. And during your leisure moments, when you did not require to b* 

 occupied on your farm, you fished enough to get tish for your family T 

 That is the whole story ? You fished to get enough for your family ? 

 A. It was for the support of my family. 



Q. Do I understand that you got more fish than was consumed in 

 your family ? A. O, yes. 



Q. How many herrings would you get in the course of a year ! A. 

 Smoked herrings ? J never put up over 3,000 boxes a year; sometime* 

 not over 2,000. 



Q. What would they be worth a box ? A. That would l>e hard to an- 

 swer. Sometimes we have sold them as high as 30 cents, and sometime* 

 as low as 10 cents. 



Q. Do you mean that since you have pursued the fisheries you have 

 got an average of 3,000 boxes ? A. No. I never got higher than tli.it. 

 1 only own a small part of a weir. 



Q. All those were taken in weirs, were they not ! A. Yes. 



Q. Those weirs are on the land, are they not, between high and low- 

 water mark ? A. Some are built in the tideway. 



Q. The inshore weirs are what you use ? A. Yes. 



Q. Not the tideway weirs ? A. No. 



Q. Your weir is between high and low water mark .' A. It is very 

 near the low-water mark. 



Q. It was in those weirs that you took the bulk of your herring ? A. 

 Yes. 



Q. Of those, you say you put up sometimes 3,000, and sometime* not 

 .over 2,000 boxes ? A. Just according as the catch of herring come*. 

 The catch is a great deal less some years than others. 



Q. You did not, as a rule, fish in your boats for the purpose of putting 

 up herring ? A. Not of late years. Not since we built weirs. We 

 used to. 



Q. How long was it since you did begin to use the weirs! A. The 

 first weirs were built, I should suppose, on Grand Munau, as nearly us 

 I can come at it, about 37 years ago. 



Q. Since that time you haven't fished in boats at all 

 not fished in boats for herring. 



Q. What time did you yourself commence to use these weirs 

 helped to build the first weir that was built. 



Q. After that you ceased to fish in boats, and depended 

 weirs? A. You understand our weirs do not lish at aU times, 

 weirs seldom or ever fish until September. 



Q. After you commenced to use these weirs did you depend n|>oi 

 for your supply of fish ? A. No, 1 could not depend II|NHI tl 

 because they did not always fish. It is only for two or three i 

 They would not get herring enough to pay expenses am 

 family. I had to take a boat. 



Q. Would you in September take a boat and 

 All along through the summer, before the weirs 

 I do not mean by that before the weirs were built, bi 

 in each season to catch fish. 



Q. What time would that be ?- A. They would begin al* 



Q. This year have you taken any fish in weirs 



