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Bay of Fundy cod, 30,000 pounds ; shore cod, 20,000 pounds ; Le Have 

 Bank cod, 112,000 pounds ; Caske's cod, 30,000 pounds; cod caught on 

 Seal Island grounds, 15,000 pounds; Western Bank halibut, 7,000 

 pounds; hake, 670,780 pounds; haddock, 31,000 pounds; cusk, 113,630 

 pounds; mixed fish, 10,840 pounds; bay mackerel, 47 barrels; salt 

 water herring, 500 barrels ; fish oil, 10 barrels ; sounds, 11 barrels. 

 Gloucester, Mass., November 3, 1882. 



I send you the amount of fish landed at Gloucester in the month of 

 November: mackerel, 6,185 barrels; herring, 211 barrels; George's 

 cod, 398,000 pounds; George's halibut, 19,500 pounds; Western Bank cod, 

 353,000 pounds ; Western Bank halibut, 14,300 pounds; Grand Banks 

 halibut, 164,000 pounds; Grand Banks hake, 400,000 pounds; haddock 

 caught on the cape shore and brought from Boston, 516,000 pounds; 

 dried fish by freight from Maine, 500 quintals cod, 200 quintals haddock, 

 2,900 quintals hake, 1,535,000 pounds pollock; mixed fish caught on the 

 shore grounds, 463,000 pounds, being cod, hake, and cusk in equal parts; 

 cod caught with hand lines on the rocks 4 miles from shore, 17,000 

 pounds. Fish caught in cod gill-nets, 34,300 pounds. 



Gloucester, Mass., November 4, 1882. 



The mackerel vessels are all home — the last one came yesterday — and 

 they are all hauled up for this season. The mackerel fishing has been 

 a great success this year. The largest stock that ever was made out of 

 Gloucester on any kind of fish has been made by the schooner Nellie 

 N. Bowe. (See the figures below.) Pollock have been very plenty this 

 fall ; they have not been so abundant since 1862. To-day there are 

 200,000 pounds of pollock in port; this is one day's fishing with 30 

 boats, averaging 9 men to a vessel ; and to-night at dark probably there 

 will be 400,000 pounds, and the vessels are not half in. As many pol- 

 lock have been carried to Maine as have been landed here. There have 

 been 800,000 pounds landed at Bockport. The fishermen sell them for 

 $1 a hundred pounds, round. Three boats have set cod gill-nets. Last 

 week the schooner Quickstep, of Bockport, caught 22,000 pounds of 

 large cod with twelve 50-fathom nets. The boats are doing well on the 

 rocks catching codfish. The winter school is coming on. The amount 

 of hake landed here this year is very great. The first snow of the sea- 

 son came to-day. I now give two extracts from the newspapers : 



" Two Bousing Mackerel Stocks. — Two of the largest mackerel 

 stocks ever landed at this port or in New England have been made by 

 the schooners Nellie N. Bowe, Capt, Eben 'Lewis, and the Edward E. 

 Webster, Capt. Solomon Jacobs, the past season, comprising eight 

 months of time actually employed. The net stock of the Bowe was 

 $35,537, and of the Webster, $34,229. The average share of the Webster's 

 crew was $959.75, and the steward, Mr. Warren Fowles, with his extra 

 pay of $160, made his season's work $1,129.75." 



