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cod gill-iiets landed at other ports during the month of December 

 300,000 pounds. 

 Gloucester, Mass, January 1, 1884. 



Herring. — There were three arrivals from Grand Manan with frozen 

 herring. Herring are selling at $1.50 per hundred. 



There have been tliree arrivals from the banks with 20,000 pounds of 

 fresh halibut the last three days. They sold for 2 cents a pound by the 

 cargo. The George's vessels find fish scarce. Five vessels are bound 

 home from Newfoundland with a full supply of frozen herring. 



Vessels. — Gloucester will have 50 sail ou George's after codfish. 

 There will be 5 vessels more engaged in fi'esh -halibut fishing this year 

 than there were last year. Four new ones will be added to the fleet 

 which goes south after mackerel. 



Gloucester, Mass., January 15, 1884. 



Herring. — Four cargoes of frozen herring arrived this week from 

 Grand Manan. The herring are very plenty at Fortune Bay. The 

 whole fleet of 32 vessels is coming home with full cargoes. 



Halibut. — There have three vessels arrived from the banks this week 

 with 1)0 pounds of fresh halibut, which sold at 8 cents a pound by the 

 cargo. 



Gloucester, Mass., January 20, 1884. 



Monthly SUMMARY. — The amount of fish lauded at Gloucester during 

 the mouth of January, 1884, was as follows : Salt cod, brought from 

 George's Bank (48 arrivals), 817,000 pounds; fresh halibut from George's 

 Bank, 150,300 })0unds ; shore fisheries with cod gill-nets, 843,000 pounds; 

 fresh halibut from Banks, 177,700 pounds-; herring from Grand Manan, 

 2,020,000 by coirnt; herring from Kewfouudland, 3,714,000 by count; salt 

 herring from ]S"ewfoundland, 420 barrels; haddock from George's Bank, 

 93,000 pounds; salt mackerel from Canso, Nova Scotia, 500 barrels. 



Gloucester, Mass., February 1, 1884. 



Halibut. — The vessels fishing on the eastern part of the George's 

 Bank are doing well. They catch from 3,000 to 6,000 pouuds of halibut 

 on a trii). The halibut bring a good price. Th6 average result of a 

 trip to George's Bank is 18,000 pounds of cod and 3,000 pounds of hal- 

 ibut. 



Herring. — From St. John to Eastport in the Bay of Fundy, her- 

 riug are plentiful. The inhabitants of ISTewfoundland say they have 

 never seen this fish so abundant. The thirty-six sail of vessels at New- 

 foundland are coming home with firll cargoes of frozen herring, each of 

 which averages G50 barrels. Twenty-eight cargoes of frozen herring 

 brought fronr Grand Manan average 350 barrels each. Fifteen vessels 

 more are at Grand Manan loading. Herring sell at 75 cents per hun- 

 dred here. 



