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sively in the fresh halibut industry. In addition to these 

 there were several others from Massachusetts and Long 

 Island Sound that were employed in the fishery during 

 a part of the season. The New England catch of fresh 

 halibut for 1879 was 14,637,000 pounds. After that year 

 there was decline in the fishery. In 1885, the catch was 

 light, although the same number of vessels were in use. 

 For the ten years between 1890 and 1899 the total number 

 of arrivals of fresh ground fish in Boston was 38,299, and 

 the total amount of the catch of fresh fish for that decade, 

 landed at Boston, was 632,325,496 pounds. The average 

 amount for each trip was 16,500 pounds. 1 



From 1900 to 1906, there were landed at Boston 

 595,000,000 pounds of fresh ground fish, a gain of ten 

 millions of pounds yearly over the decade of the nineties. 

 During the year 1907, American fishing vessels landed 

 at Gloucester and Boston 177,892,976 pounds of fresh 

 ground fish, valued at $4,709,022. 2 A great stimulus to 

 the fresh fishery in recent years has been the almost uni- 

 versal introduction of gasoline engines aboard the smaller 

 craft used in the inshore ground-fishery. The prospects 

 are that fresh ground-fishery will continue to increase in 

 importance and annual output for many years. 



1 Compiled from Boston Fish Bureau Reports. 



2 Bureau of Fisheries, Statistical Bulletin, No. 208. 



