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FISH AND GAME. 



In most of the crafts cited above the crews shared from 

 $1,000 to $1,400 "clear of their living" aboard for the year. 



The high line of the swordfishing fleet also produced a 

 record, the little schooner "Progress" of Edgartown, Capt. 

 Robert Hackson, in eleven weeks, on five trips, in which she 

 landed 438 fish, stocking $12,000, on which the crew shared 

 $1,200 clear to a man. 



Schooner "Hazel R. Hines," Capt. Fred Morrissey, was high 

 line of the salt trawl bank codfishing fleet. She made two 

 trips between spring and fall, weighing off 569,400 pounds of 

 salt cod on which the record stock of $27,808 was made, the 

 crew clearing $901.50 per man. 



The banner single trip of the year was made by Capt. Alden 

 Geele in schooner "Tattler," dory hand lining for salt cod. 

 This craft, which sailed in April, was home late in August with 

 500,000 pounds of salt cod on which a stock of $21,000 was 

 made, the crew sharing $533.32, also a record in this line of 

 fishing. 



In the fresh halibut fishery schooner "Robert and Richard," 

 Capt. Robert Wharton, from Jan. 1, 1916, to Oct. 20, 1916, 

 stocked $37,191.60. 



In the early and later portions of the year quite a number of 

 the fleet engaged in tilefishing, landing their fares fresh at 

 Fulton Market, New York City. Their financial returns were 

 good, and in some cases markedly so. 



