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Fish lauded at Gloucester during the mouth of January : Shore fish 

 eries, with cod gill-nets, 843,000 pouuds.- 

 Gloucester, Mass., February 1, 1S84. 



Vessels using cod gill-nets have not done as well the past week as 

 l)reviously. In Ipswich Bay there was a different school of fish. Their 

 average weight was 10 pounds. The vessels are catching them on trawls. 

 The netters are preparing for the Februaiy school. They have done a 

 good winter's work and still have two months in which to use their nets. 

 Fifty-two vessels are using the cod gill-nets, and I think 80 sail of ves- 

 sels will use them next winter. Quite a number of the George's Bank 

 tleet will also use nets next winter. 



Gloucester, Mass., February 3, 1884. 



There were 305,000 pounds of codfish brought in by the vessels using 

 cod gill-nets during the past week. 

 Gloucester, Mass., February 18, 1884. 



During the past week vessels using the cod gill-nets landed 340,000 

 pounds of large cod at Rockport and Portsmouth. Some of the vessels 

 using cod gill-nets have hauled up for the winter, three of them having 

 used up their nets. 



Gloucester, Mass., February 24, 1884. 



There were 1,803,000 pounds of cod taken by the gill-nets in Ipswich 

 Bay during the month of February. There were 48 boats engaged in 

 the cod gill-net fishery, most of which landed their catch at Portsmouth 

 and Kockport. The gill-net fishing will continue in Ipswich Bay dur- 

 ing this month. 



Gloucester, Mass., March 3, 1884. 



The cod gill-netters have not done much this week on account of the 

 lough weather. 

 Gloucester, Mass., March 11, 1884. 



The men fishing with cod gill-nets in Ipswich Bay have caught noth- 

 ing to speak of for ten days. The boats, 42 in number, often catch as 

 lew as 30,000 pounds in one night. March 13 they caught 75,000 pounds ; 

 iMarch 14, the same. The price is low, 1^ cents a pound, to-day. 



Gloucester, Mass., March 17, 1884. 



The vessels using cod gill-nets did well last week, having landed 

 520,000 pounds. The schooner Morrill Boy took 7,000 pounds in two 

 nights in Ipswich Bay. These were mixed fish, some very large and 

 some medium size. These were half male and half female. 



Gloucester, Mass., March 23, 1884. 



The cod gill-net fishermen have also done well. Since last Monday 

 they have landed 483,000 pouuds of large cod. It has been a good win- 



