AWARD OF THE FI8IIKKY COMMISSION. 1957 



Q. Did the Americans, when they told you trawling had dr-aroy.nl 

 the fishing on their coast, tell you the reason why it had destroyed the 

 fishing ? A. They may not have named every circumstance. They 

 thought they destroyed the tish ; but they always told me thU that they 

 threw gurry into the water. Most of the people Hay the trawh will 

 catch the fish lying still at the bottom, old and spawning fish which 

 will not take a line having the motion of the hand. 



Q. All the mother fish which would keep at the bottom, if projmrly 

 fished by hand, are caught by trawls? A. I would not say all. Tha't 

 is what they say. I will tell you an instance which was told me at ln>rm< 

 a week before I left. It came through two mouths. The man told it to 

 ray son and he told it to me. The man said they fished in I 1 .) f.ithonn 

 of water and caught some of the biggest fish they ever caught, and ho 

 told the story that three of them would lill a tub. Some of them had 

 the spawn ripe enough to come out. Probably you will nay it U att 

 American fish story ; I suppose it is. 



Q. Do Americans stop at your house during the season? A. Fisher- 

 men come ashore and get their water-barrels filled, and HO net i tries a 

 bushel of cherries. 



Q. Did you ever hear from anybody that trawling was the proper mode 

 of fishing? A. I don't think I did that it was the proper mode of fish- 

 ing. 



Q. They all said trawls were bad for the fishery ? A. I talked to a 

 man this summer about it, and he thought it was injurious to fishing 

 and did away with the fish, and he was willing to give it up, if they 

 would all do so. 1 don't remember his name ; he was a stranger to me, 



Q. On the American coast, opposite Grand Manan, there is a large 

 colony of fishing people, I believe ? A. Yes ; there are a good many 

 fishermen there. 



Q. Are you aware that they send boats over to fish in Grand Manan 

 waters ? A. They come there. I see them there frequently. 



Q. About how many American boats frequent the shores of Grand 

 Manan and fish there? A. I don't know. Only about four last sum 

 mer came down my way. I saw but four and one big vessel. 



Q. Five in your neighborhood last summer? A. Yes. 



Q. How many were round other parts of the island !--A. 

 visit North Head to know what stopped there. 



Q. It is notorious that American fishermen come from the mai 

 and fish round the island ? A. They frequently come and 

 and go away again. 



Q. Of course, after they have got their catch they do n 

 longer? A. If they come to fish and do not find them tl 

 but if they find fish they stop and fish a week ami go bac|i 



Q. Are you aware that they all fish at Campobello, the \\ e*t 

 and Deer Island ?-A. No doubt all the Paasamaquoddy peopto 1 



and Deer Island -. 



round Passaniaquoddy lliver. I saw a number of them t 



out in boats. 



Q. All the fish taken in these places are taken in Brit 

 I could not say all ; the principal part of them w. 

 the other day clown at Cherry Maud. But I also saw 

 day down at Eastport. 



Q. Don't you know there is no fish.ng at K.istport 

 of. There are no fish on the ancuoring-grouut 



Q. Nor any close by Lubeck ?-A. I have seen hsh uken Q 

 and also east off Fires Head and what is now called 

 they were small codfish and haddock. 



