8459. Is there anything additional that you want to say?-No.
8460. Do you think the fishermen are generally quite free to engage to fish to any employer they like?-They are quite right to engage to any man that would give the best bargain and the best agreement, and that is the thing they should do.
8461. But they would just get as good a bargain from one merchant as from another?-Yes, equally the same because it appears that one fish merchant won't pay more for his fish than another does.
8462. So that the fishermen would have no advantage in changing?-No.
8463. They cannot better themselves by shifting?-They cannot.
8464. Has that been your experience since you have been a fisherman?-It has been my experience all my life, and many besides me have found the same thing.
8465. They would like to better to themselves, but they could not?-That is the very thing.
8466. Do you think they would be better by curing their own fish?-They have no chance of curing their own fish, because those who do so have to find booths for them until the crafts come to take away the cured fish. Besides, poor men like fishermen cannot do that.
8467. They have to buy salt for the curing, and that costs a lot of money?-Yes.
8468. So that they are obliged to give their fish green to the merchant?-Yes.