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years the temperature of the water when they came was 35° F., while 

 to-day it is 50° F. I find a great difference in the spawning times of 

 schools of herring-. At Magdalen Islands they spawn in April, at Grand 

 Manan about September 1. 



The herring are not so large at Magdalen or Grand Manan as those 

 which come here to spawn. When the fishermen catch a large herring 

 with a white-tipped nose they know that the spawning herring are com- 

 ing and put down their nets, for the large spawning herring have white 

 tips on their noses. 



The shad went down the coast with the alewives and mackerel, and 

 it seems thej r are coming back with them. The schooner Finance re- 

 centlj- caught 50 barrels of alewives and 2 barrels of mackerel, and 

 among them were 3 barrels of large shad. 



I will also refer to the sun jelly [a kind of sea-nettle]. I have not 

 seen one of these in the harbor this summer. Last summer there were 

 thousands of them here, but now I cannot find a fisherman who has 

 seen any either in or out of the harbor. It seems that they have left 

 the coast this season. 



Mackerel are selling at a highprice to-day — $11 a barrel, including the 

 barrel. Pollock have made their appearance ; one vessel caught 25,000 

 pounds in three days on Jeffrie's Bank. These sold, fresh, at 4 cents a 

 pound. Pollock are a fortnight early this year, and there is no other 

 fish in the market. The harbor now is full of vessels, there being 350 

 sail, mostly fishing vessels in for shelter. 



Gloucester, Mass., September 28, 1832. 



The receipts of fish at this port for the month of September were 

 as follows: mackerel, 131 fares, 21,859 sea-packed barrels; George's 

 Bank, 55 fares, 85,200 pounds salt fish, 23,100 pounds fresh halibut ; 

 Western Banks, 50 fares, 2,447,000 pounds salt fish, 57,400 pounds fresh 

 halibut; Grand Banks, 12 fares, 575,000 pounds fresh halibut; Grand 

 Banks 13 fares, 2,055,000 pounds salt fish, 10,200 pounds fresh halibut; 

 Greenland, 4 fares, 540,000 pounds salt halibut; Flemish Cap, 2 fares. 

 L'10,000 pounds salt fish ; Le Have Bank, 5 lares, 225,000 pounds salt 

 lish; Bay of Fundy, 21 fares, 475,000 pounds salt hake; Maine coast, 

 8 fares, 50,000 pounds fresh pollock, 95,000 pounds salt hake; off Cape 

 Ann, 112,000 pounds salt hake; freight from Maine, 4,650 quintals 

 mixed salt fish ; imported from the British Provinces, 1,070,000 pounds 

 sait fish, 3,500 pounds salt halibut. 



Gloucester, Mass., October 2, 1882. 



The amount offish landed in Gloucester during October is as follows : 

 mackerel, 17,G92 barrels ; herring, 3,700 barrels ; George's cod, 001,000 

 pounds; George's halibut, 125,500 pounds ; Western Hank cod, 713,000 

 pounds; Grand Banks cod, 700,000 pounds; Grand Banks halibut, 

 591,000 pounds ; Greenland salt halibut, 80,000 pounds ; Greenland cod, 

 00,000 pounds; pollock 1,207,000 pounds; Cape shore cod, 53,000 pounds; 



