AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 19. r )9 



Q. Sometimes they do better ? A. Sometime*. They trade in n.ilt 

 sometimes for fish. 



Q. Do you know any tiling about pickled fish ? A. No. 



Q. Bo you know anything about the markets for freali flth ? A. I 

 don't make inquiries in regard to that mat tor. 



By Mr. Foster : 



Q. How deep is 15 fathoms ? A. There are fi feet to a fathom. 



Q. Some inquiries were put to you about taking herring in tin* clo*? 

 season j who does the most of that ? A. Probably I would get blamed 

 for saying anything about that, because 1 was not there to HH. It w 

 not a thing a man can speak about. L might get blamed if I w.n lo *ay 

 that three-fourths of the herring netted in those three mouths were taken 

 by our own people. I would not say it was so. 



Q. If Americans come in vessels and large boats, then your |M*opU, I 

 suppose, sell them herring? A. Yes. 



Q. How long do you understand cured fish has been going into tho 

 States free of duty? A. Five or six years. 



Q. Did the people pay any duty on it before that ? A. They had been 

 paying a duty. 



Q. About how many years before had there been a duty !- -A. I never 

 gave iny mind to think what year it was; I never booked it, und for 

 that reason my memory fails me. 



Q. Was there any period when cured fish went in free of duty Iteforv 

 this last time? A. I think there was. 



Q. Do you remember what was called the Reciprocity Treaty ! 

 Yes. 



WEDNESDAY, September 19, 1H77. 



The Conference met. 



DAVID INGERSOLL, of Gloucester, Mass., mariner and 

 called on behalf of the Government of the United States, v 

 examined. 



By Mr. Foster: 



Question. You live in Gloucester, Mass.! Answer. Yes. 



Q. What is your age ? A. Fifty five. 



Q, You have beeu a fisherman all your life, I believe 

 since I was nine years old. 



Q. At what ago and in what year did you first go fishing in tl 

 of St. Lawrence ? A. I was thirteen years old tl.e tirst timn ev.-i 



Q. That was in what year f A. I am now fifty five v win* 



Q. Well, you were in the gulf-fishing as a boy f 

 A Yes, sir : I was three or four years in the bay right ofl at 



Q. What was the tirst year you came here as thesk.pper 01 



A. The first year was 1847. 



Q. You fished for mackerel altogether I 



Q. During the early years you were here, before you p f> 

 per, where were you in the habit of Hahing or roacker. 

 Bradley and Orphan at those times, abroad off Ira* 



Q. Begin now with 1847, when you were first hen- a. ak 

 was the name of the schooner and what the tonnage ? 

 Mary Eliza. She was, I think, 54 tons. 



