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H1STOKY AND METHODS OF THE FISHEKIES. 



Stalimenl slioiriag His number of vessels anil their catch of sail mackerel, $'C. Continued. 



'Vessels packed out away from homo. t Vessels mostly packed ont away from home. 



Statement shoK'inij the number of vessels and their catch of salt mackerel in the Bay of Saint Laincnce, tlie fi'cw Eni/land shore, 



and the Southern mackertl fisheries for the stavon of 18^0. 

 [Compiled from annual report of Boston Fisli TUireau for 1880.] 



* The New England shore fleet mentioned above are only the vessels that fish now here else; to which may be added the Southern and North 

 Bay fleets after they returned from thtir unsuccessful cruise in those waters, making the total shore fleet three hundred and forty-two sail. 



[In the annual report for 1881 some corrections are made in the returns of 1880 : Shore fleet , 201 ; Southern fleet, 92 ; total fleet, 327 ; total 

 crews, 4,778.] 



