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house, and the space between the sides of the gurry-pen and the house, 

 and the rail on either side, is so arranged that it can be divided into pens 

 for the reception of the fish. Three or four pens may be placed on each 

 side. 



The remainder of the deck is clear, but there is a booby-hatch over 

 the main hatch, through which access is gained to the bait-room. 



The haddock catchers do not ordinarily carry davits or a reefing- 

 plank. The mainsail is provided with an "out-hauler" or patent reef- 

 gear, which answers the purpose of a reef-tackle and earing, and fa- 

 cilitates the process of reefing from the deck. A few of the larger ves- 

 sels, however, are provided with davits and reeflng-planks. 



The arrangement of the hold is also peculiar. The space which in a 

 halibut catcher is occupied by the forward ice-house is here taken up by 

 the bait room. The bait-room is sometimes, but not always, bulkheaded 

 off from the fore hold. It is one large compartment, with rough board 

 benches all around, on which the men sit while baiting their trawls. In 

 the center stands a stove. In this room the fishing-gear is always 

 stowed when not in use. The after hold is generally fitted up with jjens 

 resembling those in the after hold of a halibut schooner. In these pens 

 ice is carried when the vessel is making long trips. When large fares 

 are obtained, part of the fish are stowed in the bait-room, which, on the 

 larger vessels, is so arranged that partitions can be buili in it by sliding 

 boards into grooves. The haddock*schooners carry a larger amount of 

 ballast than those of any other class ; a vessel of 50 tons requiring 30 

 or 35 tons of ballast. 



THE APPARATUS AND METHODS OF THE FISHERY. 



Dories. — The larger haddock catchers carry six dories, the smaller four 

 or five.* Most of the dories used in this fishery are deeper and wider 

 than those in anj' other fishery, and are built specially for the purpose. 

 The ordinary dory is also frequently in use. These dories are 14 feet 

 in length. When on deck they are nested in the ordinary manner, two 

 or three on a side, and are stowed nearly amidships on each side of the 

 booby-hatch, not nested close to the rail, as is the practice upon other 

 vessels carrying dories. A haddock dory ready to leave the vessel in 

 order to set its trawl is provided with the following articles in addition 

 to the trawl-lines : Trawl-roller, two i)airs woollen nippers, dory-knife, 

 gob-stick, gatf, bailing scoop, thole-pins, two i)airs of 9-foot ash oars, 

 buoys, buoy-lines, anchors, and black-balls. 



Trawls. — The haddock trawls have the ground-line of tarred cotton, 

 of 14 to 18 pounds weight to the dozen lines of 25 fathoms each in 

 length. Hemp is occasionally used, especially by the Maine vessels and 

 by some of the Irish vessels from Boston. The gangings are of w hite 



"'The haddock-catchers of Maine and some of the ports iu Massachusetts, fishing 

 with "single dories," carry one for each man besides the skipper and cook. These 

 boats are 13 feet long, and managed by a single hshermau. 



