AWARD OP THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 2923 



Q. Are these herring sent to New York or Boston, or where ? A. 

 They are sent all round the country more or less. 



Q. Where are they sent ? A. Some few go to Boston ; I know of 

 some having been sent there this season ; and some go to St. John, 

 New Brunswick,) and up to this year some have gone to Yarmouth, 

 Nova Scotia. 



Q. Are many sent to Eastport ? A. Very few go there. 



Q. I understand you to say that from Grand Manan itself very few 

 fish of any kind are sent to Eastport, save a few caught by the poorer 

 classes ? A. It makes in the aggregate, however, quite a considerable 

 sum of money in value, because there are quite a number of poor fisher- 

 men. 



Q. What is the value of fish thus sold ? A. I could not tell you ex- 

 actly. 



Q. But you come up to give the value of these fisheries ? A. I have 

 given you the value of the fisheries, but I cannot go into the details ; 

 no man can. 



Q. How do you make up the aggregate value without knowing the de- 

 tails ? -A. I can make up the aggregate as to the fish caught. Take 

 hake, for instance ; I know the number of hake sounds which were 

 brought there this year, and the number of quintals of these fish that 

 have been taken ; I know the number of sounds which so many quintals 

 of fish will make. 



Q. Do you know the number of quintals or quantity of fish that have 

 been taken by poor people to Eastport ? A. 1 should say that not more 

 than one-quarter of the fish that has been caught there has been taken 

 to Eastport. 



Q. Have 40 quintals been so taken ? A. I say not more than one- 

 quarter of the whole quantity. 



Q. Will you swear to one-quarter ? A. No, I would not. 



Q. Will you swear that one-quarter does go there ? A. I give that as 

 a rough estimate. 



Q. Had you ever heard attention called to this matter at all before you 

 came here? A. No, not particularly; but I ran a packet there, and 

 I then used to carry a good many fish as freight. 



Q. If there is so little trade between Eastport and Grand Manan, 

 how could a fish merchant in Eastport know, by reason of the business 

 so done, what the extent of the trade of the island was? A. Well, if 

 he was intimately acquainted with Grand Manan fishermen he would 

 probably ask them from time to time about it, as he saw them. 



Q. For information only ? A. Probably so. 



Q. If Eastport fishermen stated that the great bulk of the fish from 

 Grand Manan passed through Eastport hands, would that be true ? A. 

 This is not the case. 



Q. Or anything like it? A. No; of course not. 



Q. You put the value of the whole catch around Grand Manan at 

 $150,000. I do not see how you get that, according to your figures. 

 You .put down 10,000 quintals hake; what are they worth? A. About 

 $2.50 a quintal, as they are taken from the water; that price includes 

 sounds and livers. 



Q. That makes $25,000 ? A. Yes. 



Q. Then you take 8,000 quintals of cod ? A. Yes. 



Q. How much are they worth ? A. $4 a quintal would bo a large 

 estimate. 



Q. That is $32,000 ? A. Yes. 



