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halibut, 112,000 pounds; haddock, 49,000 pounds; Newfoundland frozen 

 herring, 4,400,000 ; Grand Manan frozen herring, 4,035,000. There have 

 been imported from Canso, 1ST. S., 28,000 pounds cod, G30 barrels mackerel, 

 450 barrels pickled herring. The arrivals last month were as follows: 

 Eleven sail from Newfoundland, with frozen herring; 20 sail from Grand 

 Manan, with frozen herring; 59 sail arived from George's, with codj 

 5 sail from Western Bank, with salt cod ; 6 sail from the Grand Banks, 

 with fresh halibut; 1 from Canso, with mackerel, herring, and cod. 

 There were 2 arrivals with haddock ; and 5 sail came in from Ipswich 

 Bay. 



Gloucester, Mass., March 2, 1883. 



There have been 37 arrivals from George's Bank during the last week, 

 averaging 25,000 pounds cod and 2,000 pounds halibut to a vessel. The 

 fish caught on George's are caught in shoal water of 18 to 25 fathoms ; the 

 fish are large and full of spawn. The first fish were caught on the eastern 

 part of the bank in the month of January, in about 60 fathoms of water. 

 These fish contained no spawn. Those now caught are full of spawn, 

 and are taken on the western part in 20 fathoms. There have been four 

 arrivals from the Western Bank in the last week, with good fares — 40,000 

 X)ounds salt cod, and 4,000 pounds halibut to a vessel. Six cargoes of 

 frozen herring have arrived during tlie last week, average 250,000 to a 

 vessel. The halibut vessels have not done much — nothing in the last 

 week. The haddock are plentiful on George's Bank. I have known 

 vessels to catch 70,000 pounds in two days, and make the round trip in 

 a week. Some vessels went out Tuesday and were back Sunday with 

 60,000 pounds. They caught these on the western part of George's, in 

 20 fathoms of water. The oldest haddock are full of spawn. The oldest 

 haddock catchers say that they never saw them so numerous. There is 

 a large fleet of vessels in the harbor, and they will not go out until Mon- 

 day, being afraid of Wiggins's storm. 



Gloucester, Mass., March 6, 1883. 



The George's vessels are doing well. There were 12 arrivals last week, 

 averaging 30,000 pounds of split fish, and 500 pounds of halibut to a 

 vessel. Two vessels arrived from Western Bank with 65,000 pounds of 

 cod to a vessel. Four came in from Grand Bank with fresh halibut, 

 25,000 pounds to a vessel. Five sail arrived from Grand Manan with 

 838,000 frozen herring. Twenty-three vessels sailed southward after 

 mackerel, and 40 more will sail in the course of ten days. Fifteen sail 

 have gone south from Portland and 5 from South port for mackerel. 

 There will he 140 sail after mackerel. 



Gloucester, Mass., March 25, 1883. 



The following is a report of the amount of fish landed here in the 

 month of March : George's cod, 1,547,000 pounds ; George's halibut, 

 77 500 pounds; Western Bank cod, 435,000 pounds; Western Bank 



