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Receipts of fish at Gloucester, Mass., in October, 1885. 



* British vessels; fish paid duty. 



Other receipts : dry fish, from Maine, 4,975 quintals hake, 1,970 quintals cod, 300 quintals haddock, 

 11,000 boxes smoked herring, 450 barrels pickled herring; fresh fish landed from market vessels and 

 email boats, 70,000 pounds hake, 47,000 pounds cod, 15,000 pounds cusk. 



11 — KEW £IVC;L.AN1> FISEIERIES IIV NOVEmBER, 1SS5. 



By W. A. WII.COX. 



Xovember brings in most of the fishing fleets that have been at ■work 

 during the season. The mackerel, Grand Banks cod-fishery, shore her- 

 ring, and eastern or Maine shore fisheries are over. From this until 

 spring few ports except Gloucester will have any vessels on the fishing 

 grounds. 



Fish have been fairly abundant, and the catch, mackerel excepted, 

 ■will show a gain of most varieties over that of 1884. 



During the entire season the demand has been very moderate; com- 

 petition, sharp; foreign imi)ortations, notwithstanding the duty, quite^ 

 large. Prices so low that the season has been one of disappointment,^ 

 with small if any profit. 



The late or fall catch of mackerel was very light; at times quite a body 

 offish was found in Barnstable Bay and off Cape Cod, but high winds 

 held the fleet in port much of the brief time while the fish remained, and 

 only a small amount was added to the catch. The middle of the month 

 found the catch given up by all except four vessels that were off the 

 Nova Scotia shore; the latter all arrived during the month without a 



