420 BULLETIN OF THE' UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



Only one vessel, the Arthur D. Story, of Gloucester, went to Bay of 

 Islands, Kewfoundlaucl, for herring ; she sailed under register, and has 

 been reported as having secured a full cargo. 



Quite a fleet under register will engage in the frozen-herring busi- 

 ness, buying their cargoes in the Bay of Fundy and Fortune Bay. The 

 first vessels to sail on a herring trip to the latter port in the past three 

 years having started as follows : 1884, November 24 ; 1885, ISTovember 

 21; 1886, l^Jovember 19. Seven sail started up to November 30, 188G. 



Fish landed at Gloucester, Mass., by the fishing- fleet in November, 1886. 



♦During the month fish wore landed by the follovvin<i schooners: Good Templar, William H. Craig, 

 and William Keen©, of Portland, Mc. ; Flying Dart aud Mary S. Hontvet, of Portsmouth, N. H. ; 

 Delia F. Tarr, of Kockport, Mass. ; and Loring B. Haskell, of Boston, Mass. 



Miscellaneous receipts of dried, smoked, and piclcled fish, oil, and bait at Gloucester 



Mass., in Norember, 1886. 



Gloucester, Mass., November 30, 1886. 



