1952 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



McLaugblin were the two men elected. I was not able to pro to the 

 meetings. I never made inquiries, and I have not seen Mr. McLaughliu 

 since. 



Q. Are your dealings chiefly with the Americans, and do you take more 

 interest in their affairs? A. My dealings with them are small; the 

 amount depends on what I catch. 



Q. You know more what is going on at Eastport than at St. Andrew's, 

 your own county town. Do you ever send any of your fish to St. Andrew's 

 for sale ? A. Sometimes we sell some there. 



Q. Did you ever sell any of your own there ? A. I probably sold a'few 

 quintals some years ago ; I don't recollect. 



Q. You sell your fish altogether at home ? A. Not at home. I ship 

 my fish principally to Eastport, some to Boston. 



Q. Do you ship them on your own account? A. I call it shipping 

 when we send them in vessels. 



Q. In what vessels do you send them ? A. In the vessels of the two 

 Duttons and Mr. Ingles. 



Q. Do those three gentlemen send their vessels to Boston ? A. Yes. 

 They get freight from different people who have fish to send. 



Q. Did you send any last year ? A. Yes. 



Q. Did you sell them better at Boston than you could have done at 

 Eastport or St. Andrew's ? A. I don't think it paid better to send them 

 to Boston ; it paid about as well as sending them to Eastport. The 

 freight is high to send tkem there. 



Q. Did you sell any at St. Andrew's? A. No. 



Q. Can you state how many barrels of pickled fish are put up on the 

 island ? A. No. 



Q. Can you state what is the catch of fish at the island ? How many 

 barrels of herring are pickled and put up at the island ? A. I think 

 scarcely any were caught there last year. 



Q. Take last year ; how many barrels of pickled herring were put up 

 at the island ? A. I could not tell you, because I have not been fishing 

 for some time. 



Q. Cannot you form any idea? A. There might be 100 barrels put 

 up somewhere that I would know nothing of. 



Q. Have you any idea what your catch of herring might be at the 

 island ? A. I could not give it; some years they are plentiful and other 

 years they are very scarce. 



Q. Can you give the catch for any year? A. No. 



Q. I will take Campobello ; can you state how many barrels of herring 

 were caught there any year f A. I could not ; I "have no means of 

 knowing. 



Q. Take the parish of West Isles ; do you know how many were taken 

 there any year ! A. I never fished in Passamaquoddy Kiver. I have 

 known of fish having been taken there. 



Q. The lish taken there, I believe, are principally herring and had- 

 dock ? A. I understand pollock. 



Q. Is pollock taken in great quantities there this year? A. Yes. 



Q. Can you state how many boats are employed fishing all round your 

 island ? A. I cannot. 



Q. Do you know anything whatever about the fishing on the main- 

 land, in the parish of St. George and Lepreaux? A. No. 



Q. Do you know what is the population of the city of Quebec! A. I 

 could not say. 



Q. Can you tell what is the population of the city of Montreal? A.'No. 



Q. Have you any idea at all IA. I have not. " 



