AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 1951 



Q. Take them as a body, are the herring taken in weirs inferior! A. 

 The herring are interior, as they are so very different in six.*. We get 

 mixed schools. Not one-half can we string to cure. Our weir herring 

 are small. They are not so large as net herring. 



Q. As a rule, are not weir herring inferior herring ? A. They n, 

 because they are mixed. Large and small mixed cannot be ait valuable 

 as herring of a regular size. 



Q. Then herrings taken in nets are large herring ! A. The tiiPAhc.ii of 

 the nets are large enough to allow small herring to go through ; but in 

 the weirs we take all kinds. 



Q. The boat fishermen don't care to take the small herring ? A. Not 

 while it is netting time. 



Q. The herrings they generally put up for export are large! A. Yen, 

 those they barrel, unless they freeze some in the winter season. 



Q. The trade in barreling fish is one you have not engaged in ! A. 

 No. 



Q. You have applied yourself solely to the trade in small herring put 

 up in boxes? A. Yes ; to the weir fish. 



Q. Then, in point of fact, you cannot speak from any exjerience 

 or knowledge regarding the trade in large herring ? A. I have had no 

 experience in that. 



Q. Then the opinions of persons actually engaged in it would be worth 

 four times as much as your opinion ? A. I suppose HO. I should say 

 the man who had always been in the business would be the man who 

 would be the best judge. 



Q. Take Mr. McLaughlin, the overseer of fisheries there, is he not a 

 man of great experience in all kinds of h'shing ? A. lie may have en- 

 gaged in fish trading, but he does not fish. I do not know that he ever 

 fished. I would not swear that he has not done so. 



Q. How far does he live from you ? A. Fifteen or sixteen miles, 



Q. What he does you cannot have any credible knowledge of, unless 

 you always keep an eye on him ? A. He has not attended to fishing since 

 he got the light-house. 



Q. Do you undertake to say that he did not fish before he took charge 

 of the light-house ? A. Before that time 1 do not know what he did. 



Q. Do you know whether he did or did not fish f A. I cannot say. 



Q. He is the officer who went round and got statistic* of all the f 

 caught on the island ? A. I think I recollect that he took some estimate 

 of the fish. 



Q. He is fishery officer, and that is his business f A. He dt< 



Q. He went round to find out what your annual catch was 1 

 think so. 



Q. He went over the island .'A. I thi:ik he did. 



Q. He is a mau of good, strong common sense, a decent, pract 

 man f A. I suppose so. 



Q. He is county councilor for your county !- -A. I 

 I was not at any town meeting. 



Q. You live on the island and you cannot tell who your county 

 cilor is? A. I have not inquired this season, 

 the meetings. 



Q. Don't you take sufficient interest in your public affair 

 you did not attend the meetings, to know who was 

 not think I have seen Mr. McLaughlia since. 



Q. Do you not know that the county of Charlotte has 

 governed by justices, and has become a mumcipalit 

 cilorsT-A. I have heard it talked of. I heard Mr. >erion aud 



