90 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



Squid. — Squid are plenty on George's, on Casjie's, and in the Bay of 

 Fundy. Tliey are plenty ou the whole coast from Grand Manan, Bay 

 of Fundy, to Middle Bank. Vessels that have come in from Le Have 

 Bank and Brown's Bank say there are i)lency of squid on all the fish- 

 ing banks of the Nova Scotia shore. A few have been caught off the 

 mouth of the harbor. 



Halibut fishery. — The vessels that go after fresh halibut have 

 done well. There have been three arrivals this week from the south- 

 west part of Grand Banks, with G5,0()0, 55,000, and 08,000 pounds of 

 fresh halibut, caught in 140 fathoms of water. 



Gloucester, Mass., October 28, 1883. 



MovEiviENTS OF MACKEREL. — When the mackerel came on the coa.sts 

 of Massachusetts and Maine the large mackerel came first, and jiassed 

 to the eastward. Then came the small ones, which also passed to the 

 eastward. The latter came up inshore this fall. Boston Bay was full 

 of them all the time during the month of October. The large mackerel 

 were farther oft' shore. They came across Cashe's. A few of them were 

 caught at Chatham. Some of the vessels which have come in during 

 the last two days saw mackerel ou the northeast part of George's. 

 Those mackerel came out of the Bay of St. Lawrence. They come up 

 the Cape shore as far as Cape Sable, then strike across to the north- 

 east part of George's, and work southwest the whole length of the bank; 

 how much farther I don't know. When they went to the eastward they 

 went down the whole length of George's Bank, w^ent across to Cape 

 Sable, and followed down the whole length of the Cape shore. Some 

 of them went through the Straits of Canso. Some of them went down 

 as far as Scatary Island, and then took a westerly course in the Bay of 

 St. Lawrence. Some of the large mackerel went up by the island of 

 Saint Paul and were not seen afterwards. Some vessels which were 

 on the I^abrador coast after herring saw large mackerel there. Accord- 

 ing to the last reports from the Xova Scotia shore there are plenty of 

 mackerel there working westward. 



Gloucester, Mass., October 31, 1883. 



Monthly summary. — The amount of fish landed at Gloucester 

 during the month of October was as follows: Shore mackerel 24,091 

 barrels; mackeral from the Bay of St. Lawrence, 4,343 barrels ; herring, 

 5,335 barrels; cod from George's Bank, 950,000 i)ounds ; halibut from 

 George's Bank, 11,900 pounds; cod from Western Bank, 1,403,000 

 pounds ; halibut from Western Bank, 9,400 pounds ; cod from Grand 

 Banks, 2,133,000 pounds ; salt halibut from Grand Bank 13,400 pounds; 

 fresh halibut, G9G,000 pounds; Greenland halibut, 90,000 pounds; pol- 

 lock, 588,000 pounds ; hake, 30,000 pounds ; cusk, 22,000 pounds ; 

 haddock, 23,000 pounds; fresh cod, 12,500 pounds ; mixed dried fish 

 by freight from Maine, 10,550 quintals; pogy slivers, 170 barrels ; cod 

 oil sold here, 95 barrels ; cod imported from Nova Scotia, 700 quintals. 



Gloucester, Mass., November 4, 1883. 



