162 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



13.— NOTES ©.\ THE. FISHERIES OF GLOUCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS. 



By S. J. MARTIN. 



[Letters to Prof. S. P. Baird.] 



The receipts of fish at Gloucester during the mouth of July were as 

 follows: 200 fares salt mackerel, 62,734 barrels; 5 fares fresh mackerel, 

 675 barrels; 78 fares from George's Bank and vicinity, with 1,051,000 

 pounds cod and 114,000 pounds halibut; 40 fares from Western Bank 

 and Banquereau, with 2,105,000 pounds cod and 40,200 pounds halibut; 

 8 fares from Grand Banks, 870,000 pounds cod; 12 fares from Grand 

 Banks, 625,000 pounds halibut ; 55 fares shore fish from Bay of Fundy, 

 etc., with 1,020,000 pounds of mixed fish, one-eighth cod, and the rest 

 haddock, hake, and cusk ; 1 fare (500 quintals) freighted from Maine ; 

 and 4 fares (2,150 quintals)' of cod, etc., imported from Nova Scotia. The 

 schooner Henry 1ST. Woods, 16 men, which had been gone 18 days, 

 brought in the largest fare of salt mackerel — 560 barrels. 



Gloucester, Mass., August 1, 1882. 



The receipts of fish at Gloucester during the month of August were as 

 follows: One hundred and seventy arrivals salt mackerel, 43,328 sea- 

 packed barrels; shore mackerel catch, 75 barrels salt, and 370 barrels 

 fresh; eighty-three arrivals from George's and Le Have Banks, with 

 1,057,000 pounds salt cod, and 50,000 pounds fresh halibut; thirty-six 

 arrivals from Western Bank and Banquereau, with 1,939,000 pounds 

 salt cod, and 9,000 pounds salt halibut; nineteen arrivals from Grand 

 Banks, with 2,540,000 pounds salt cod, and 9,000 pounds Hitched halibut; 

 one arrival from the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, with 30,000 pounds salt cod ; 

 five arrivals from the cape shore, with 265,000 pounds salt cod ; nineteen 

 arrivals from Grand Banks, with 875,000 pounds fresh halibut; thirty- 

 five arrivals after shore trips — vessels, 879,000 pounds (mostly hake), 

 shore boats, 352,000 pounds (mostly hake). Also there were freighted 

 from Maine 210,000 pounds and 1,550 quintals (mostly hake and cod), 

 and imported from the Provinces 282,000 pounds and 200 quintals of 

 dry fish, and 100 barrels of mackerel. 



Gloucester, Mass., September 4, 1882. 



The mackerel fleet did poorly during the last week. The mackerel 

 which were caught were taken anions the rocks. Two vessels on Friday 

 and Saturday last caught 200 barrels close to Matinicus Rock. One of 

 the Portland vessels caught 275 barrels on the southeast part of George's. 

 Bank. Twenty-one sail were in Gloucester from mackerel fishing last 

 Monday. The average catch was 150 barrels, and some of the vessels had 

 been gone 5 weeks. Horse-mackerel are very abundant all along the 

 eastern shore. The schooner Dreadnaught set a seine around what they 



