1958 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Q. How far is that from Campobello ? A. About half a mile west 

 of it. 



Q. Campobello is an English island ? A. Yes. 



Q. Then you speak of fish caught within half a mile of Campobello ? 

 A. Yes ; I know that a few fish were taken there, small cod and had- 

 dock ; but the fishing-grounds are close to Cherry Island and off that 

 way. 



Q. Do you know anything about the fishing round Metite ? A. No j 

 I never fished there. I never threw a line in Passatnaquoddy Kiver. 



Q. Have you heard there is good fishing there ? A. Yes ; I have 

 seen plenty of boats there. 



Q. It is close by Cherry Island ? A. Yes. When there is a slack 

 tide they can go farther into the river. 



Q. Do you know anything about the boat-fishing in Black Bay ? A. 

 I never fished there. 



Q. Have you heard there is good -fishing there ? A. I have heard 

 they sometimes catch pollock there. I don't think that pollock run 

 there as they used to do, because the people of Black Bay are mostly at 

 our place. 



Q. When you say that if you were shut out from the American 

 market you could not get a market in the Dominion, as the matter now 

 stands, you are talking about something you don't know ? A. That 

 may be so. 



Q. Is it not so ? A. When our people send fish by our men to St. 

 John, they come back with less money than if they had sent the fish to 

 Eastport ; it does not pay as well. 



Q. How long ago was that ? A. My sons and my neighbors put up 

 perhaps 6,000, 7,000, or 8,000 boxes of herring, audl only put up 2,000 

 boxes last fall. 



Q. Do you speak only of smoked herring! A. They want to dispose 

 of their herring to the best advantage. They send them to New York, 

 Boston, Eastport, and St. John, and when they have sold any at St. 

 John they say it would have paid better to have sold them at Eastport. 

 That is the general talk. 



Q. How long ago was that? A. It is every year. The last time 

 was about four weeks ago. 



Q. Then in spite of this loss at St. John, they still send smoked her- 

 ring there, though the American market is open and free ? A. Yes. 

 They have not carried many there since the fire. 



Q. Did they make money before the fire by selling smoked herring at 

 St. John ? A. They did not consider they did as well. 



Q. W T hy did they send to St. John when the American market was 

 open to them, if they could do better there? rA. The prices vary. 

 Probably if you go to Eastport and carry in a great many herring, the 

 dealers, finding there are plenty coming in, would not offer a large price ; 

 and so a vessel would run over to St. John. 



Q. When the fishermen could not get the prices they wanted at East- 

 port, they would go to St. John and do better? A. They would prob- 

 ably not do better, but they would go and try. 



Q. They could not sell at Eastport! A. The people there have a rule 

 that when they find plenty of fish coming in, they don't care to pay what 

 they would if the fish were scarce. 



Q. Then they do better, it instead of selling at Eastport, they go tx> 

 St. John ? A. Thoy come hack and sav thev have not done so well as if 

 they had no Id at Bust port. 



