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themselves to that fishing-ground which I consider without the three 

 miles. 



Q. Of these four fisheries, hake, haddock, pollock, and cod, what is 

 the respective value ? I mean as fisheries. A. The quantity of hake, 

 and their value, I could give you very near, but the others would be, of 

 course, more liable not to be correct. I am largely engaged in the sound 

 business. The quintal of hake makes one and a quarter pounds of 

 sounds, and it is not only my business to know what sounds I buy my- 

 self, but how much are brought in the neighborhood, and whose hand* 

 they go into. This year the hake business has been larger than any 

 year since my remembrance. 



Q. This year, I understand, it has been offshore? A. Yes, a very 

 large catch. J estimate the quantity of sounds this year in our district, 

 including in that Grand Mauau and everything from Point Lepreau r 

 33,000 pounds. Perhaps it may be more, 1,000 pounds over. It will not, 

 I think, go under. By taking a quarter from that you have the quantity 

 of hake caught. Now, last year we didn't get quite ten tons of sounds 

 altogether in the whole district. 



Q. What I want to get at is this : What is the relative proportion 

 that the hake fishing bears to the haddock, cod, or pollock ? Which is 

 the most valuable, I mea generally ? A. The inshore or offshore ? 



Q. Take it altogether, and then I will ask you separately. Is the had- 

 dock offshore or inshore ? A. It is offshore and inshore. 



Q. How about the pollock I A. The pollock is caught more offshore 

 than in. 



Q. Then the codfish ! A. The codfish are almost exclusively caught 

 offshore, except, as I tell you, in the early spring or late in the fall there 

 is a school of small codfish that strikes within the limits, and the people 

 there catch them more or less. 



Q. Then, as I understand, generally the codfish is an offshore fishery 

 the valuable codfish 1 A. Yes. 



Q. The hakei s offshore also ? A. Yes. 



Q. The pollock is also offshore ? A. Yes. 



Q. And the haddock is inshore and offshore ? A. Yes, but under- 

 stand me, I don't say there is not a few hake, pollock, and cod inshore. 



Q. I meiin generally. Now of these four which is the most valuable ? 

 A. At Grand Mauan this year the hake fishery is the most valuable 

 by far. At Campobello the hake offshore is most valuable. 



Q. Now, by whom are these fisheries mainly conducted at Grand 

 Manau ? A. They are conducted by the inhabitants of Grand Manan. 



Q. Is there a large proportion of American fishermen engaged in these 

 fisheries within your knowledge ? A. I know of Americans who go 

 there and hire by the month to the weir fishermen. 



Q. No, I am talking about the American boats and vessels? A. The 

 quantity of American boats and vessels that go there to fish inside is 

 very small, very small indeed. 



Q. Could you form any estimate what would be the annual value of 

 the fishery at Grand Manan, taking the opposite coast, and taking the 

 neighborhood generally, from your experience as a man of business 

 with some practical acquaintance with the operations yourself as a mer- 

 chant ; what would be the annual value, including Grand Mauan and the 

 coast from Letite to St. Andrews and Lepreau ? A. I .should set the 

 value of the fish caught at Grand Manau at not over $400,000. They 

 might go $500,000, but I think if I had 8500,000 I would have some 

 left. 



Q. That is for Grand Manan. Now for the coast on the other side. 



