234 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



$17,765, the crew sharing $705." — [Cape Ann Advertiser, February 10, 

 1882. 



" The new schooner ' Dido,' recently built at Essex for Mr. George 

 Steele of this city, has been engaged in the haddock fishery just one 

 month to-day, during which time she has made three trips, stocking 

 $3,750. On her last trip she stocked $1,400. Her crew shared for the 

 month, $138 each. Tlie 'Dido' is commanded by Capt. William N. 

 Wells. Schooner 'Richard Lester,' Capt. Ozro B. Fitch, on a recent 

 haddock trip stocked $ 1 ,100." — [Cape Ann Advertiser, February 10, 1882.] 



The largest haddock fare ever landed was that of the schooner 

 'Martha C of Gloucester, Capt. Charles Martin, which arrived at Bos- 

 ton on Friday from a Georges haddock trip, and weighed off 93,000 

 pounds haddock, stocking $1,943, the crew sharing $91, the result of 

 two-and-a-half days' fishing. Absent ten days. This was the largest 

 catch and best stock ever reported in the haddock fishery. — [Cape Ann 

 Advertiser, February 24, 1882.] 



The catches of the average Portland and Boston vessels were not, 

 probably, more than half as great. The' "Martha C," before alluded to 

 in thirteen hours' fishing in the winter of 18S0-'81 caught 90,000 pounds 

 of cod and haddock. The total amount of haddock carried into Boston 

 in 1870 was 17,000,000 pounds ; of this amount probably at least 

 13,000,000 were obtained by the winter haddock vessels. The total 

 yield of this fishery does not, probably, fall below 18,000,000 to 

 20,000,000 pounds. 



RUNNING FOR THE MARKET. 



'No class of vessels, not even the halibut schooners, take more risks 

 in running for market than do the haddock schooners. It is of the 

 utmost importance to them to reach the market with their fish in good 

 condition, and, if possible, to be in advance of other vessels engaged in 

 the same business. In the stormiest of weather all sail that they will 

 bear is crowded upon them, and harbors are made even in heavy snow 

 and fog. The trips are short, averaging frequently not more than two 

 or three days, and rarely longer than a week or ten days ; they are, there- 

 fore, constantly running for the land, and are more accustomed to making 

 the coast than the halibut vessels, and become so familiar with the har- 

 bors, most frequently resorted to, especially with that of Boston, that 

 they are able to enter them when no other vessels, probably not even 

 pilot boats, would care to make the attempt. What has already been 

 said about the dangers encountered by the halibut schooners will api^ly 

 as well, in its fullest extent, to the haddock schooners. 



THE MANNER OF OUTFIT. 



In the winter haddock fishery every man supplies his own dory and 

 outfit comiilete, besides paying his share of the provision bill. In the 

 settlement of the voyage, the vessel draws one-fourth of the net stock. 



