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GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW OF THE FISHERIES. 



"The Bay Saiut Lawrence fleet was unusually large, consisting of one hundred and eighty-five 

 vessels, against sixty last year. The catch was good, and the business would have proved quite 

 successful but for the disastrous gale in August, by which so mauy vessels were wrecked or tem- 

 porarily disabled in the height of the fishing season, materially reducing the receipts. Of the one 

 hundred and eighty-five Gloucester vessels engaged in this fishery, ten were wrecked and are total 

 losses, and three remain ashore at the Magdalen Islands, but are not abandoned. Twenty-six 

 vessels made two bay trips each during the season, and the whole number of fares received at 

 Gloucester this season will be 198 against Go last year. 



"The Greenland fishery employed four vessels, meeting with only moderate success. The Ice- 

 land fishery employed one vessel, which failed to secure a fare." 



THE PRODUCTS OF GLOUCESTER FISHERIES IN 1875. Prepared from actual returns obtained 

 by Mr. George H. Proctor, of the Cape Ann Advertiser : 



The items of shore, fresh, .and cured fish and oil in the above statement include the following : 



THE FISHERIES IN 1877. From the Cape Ann Advertiser, of January 4, 1878. vre have the 

 following review of the fisheries for the year 1877: The number of fishing arrivals in the herring, 

 cod, halibut, and mackerel fisheries, exclusive of the boat and shore fishermen, have averaged 

 over 50 per week, the aggregate for the year being 2,080, as follows: Newfoundland, 28; Grand 

 Mauan, 37; Grand, Western, and La Have Banks, 556; George's, 1,281; shore mackerel trips, 092; 



