434 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES 



Haddock are very plentiful all around the Gulf (including the Bay of Fundy) 

 as well as on all the offshore banks, especially on Georges where they greatly out- 

 number the cod. In spite of their preference for deeper water (p. 435) a larger number 

 of individual haddock than of cod are taken over the coastal belt generally, within 

 20 to 25 miles of land, though the latter are so much larger individually that the 

 catch of cod is the greater by weight. In 1919, for example, the catch on 

 the inshore grounds (including that of both small boats and vessels) was about 

 20,000,000 pounds of cod (p. 412), as compared with 15,000,000 pounds of haddock. 

 The landings along several stretches of the coast for that year will further illustrate 

 the universal abundance of haddock. Thus between 5,000,000 and 6,000,000 

 pounds were taken off western Nova Scotia and on the south side of the mouth of 

 the Bay of Fundy (including German Bank fish) ; about 750,000 farther in on the 

 Scotian side of the bay and about 400,000 on the New Brunswick side; about 

 700,000 pounds thence to Penobscot Bay; and about 500,000 between Penobscot 

 and Casco Bays. The inshore grounds from Cape Elizabeth to Cape Cod (includ- 

 ing Stellwagen Bank but not Jeffreys Ledge) yielded nearly 5,000,000 pounds, besides 

 some 2,000,000 more taken by large vessels on the inshore grounds but which we 

 can not classify by localities. Small isolated rocky banks, such as Cashes and 

 Platts, support few haddock compared to the considerable stock of cod (p. 412), 

 but they are extremely abundant on the offshore grounds generally, swarming in the 

 South Channel in particular. In fact, this ground supplies fully half the haddock 

 brought into Boston. They are so plentiful at one time or another over the whole 

 length of Georges Bank that it is a common occurrence for an otter trawler to 

 catch 10,000 to 20,000 fish, large and small, in 5 to 6 days' fishing, and not unheard 

 of for one to take 50,000. In number (not in weight) haddock of all sizes made up 

 60 to 70 per cent of all the fish caught there by certain otter trawlers in the year 

 1913, while cod amounted to less than 10 per cent. By weight, however, the landings 

 of cod from Georges Bank may be larger than those of haddock, both because cod 

 average so much larger individually and because more of the immature haddock 

 than immature cod are caught and thrown back. The following figures give the 

 landings of haddock, in pounds, at Boston and Gloucester, Mass., and Portland, Me., 

 from certain offshore grounds in 1919: 



Pounds 



South Channel 34, 929, 521 



Georges Bank 17, 620, 977 



Browns Bank 4, 355, 637 



Jeffreys Ledge 1,093,986 



Off Chatham 1,372,625 



Stellwagen Bank 736, 328 



Platts Bank 68, 101 



Fippenies Bank 34, 435 



Haddock are also plentiful on Browns Bank; perhaps less so on German Bank, 

 though considerable numbers are caught there and on the broken grounds off 

 Lurcher Shoal; and they are less plentiful than other ground fish on Grand Manan 

 Bank. In 1919 ( a representative year) the total catch of haddock in the Gulf of 

 Maine, inshore and offshore, was at least 85,000,000 pounds, representing more 



