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fish were lauded (loni Cape North, while none have been hinded this 

 3'oar, tlie ice preventing the vcss<?]s reaching the cape. There were 

 2,()0(),()U0 pounds of codfish landed <iuriug the month of May last year, 

 against l,00iJ,00() during the same month of the present year. 

 Gloucestee, jMass., June 4, 1884. 



Codfishi^Tt. — During the i)ast week most of the George's fleet did 

 well, the thirty arrivals having average fares of 23,000 pounds of salt 

 codfish. The vessels which went to Cape North for codfish did not 

 catch any in consequence of the ice lasting until the fish had left. 



Two striped bass, one black bass, and four porgies were caught in traps 

 in the harbor last week. Two barrels of squid were also taken out of 

 them this morning. 



Mackeeel. — Mackerel are coming in slowly, onlj' thirteen arrivals 

 lauding 1,705 barrels last week. Three hundred barrels of small mack- 

 erel were sold to be canned. Small mackerel extend from Block Island 

 to Portland. The small mackerel on tliis coast, some larger than last 

 year, when they were classed as number 4, are large enough for num- 

 ber 3. A few large ones have been caught in the traps in the harbor. 

 The school of large mackerel that was seen on the southern coast did not 

 strike tliis coast, but Avent in an E.N.E. direction, aci-oss the southeast 

 l^art of George's Banks to Cape Sable. From Cape Sable they took 

 an easterly course down the cost of Kova Scotin. A large amount of 

 njackerel has been taken in the weirs at Yarmouth and Cape Sable, 

 whence 2,400 barrels of fresh and 800 barrels of salt mackerel have 

 been shipped by steamer to Boston. The mackerel have been caught 

 as far east as Cape Canso, Nova Scotia. 



There are sixtv sail of Gloucester mackerel-catchers after the large 

 mackerel on the Nova Scotia shore. They will follow the mackerel to 

 the Bav of Saint Lawrence. 



Gloucestee, Mass., June 8, 1884. 



SuMMAEY. — During the past week there have been thirty-seven ar- 

 rivals from George's Banks, averaging 22,000 pounds of salt codfish 

 and 400 pounds of fresh halibut to a vessel ; ten arrivals with aver- 

 aging fares of 24,000 pounds of fresh halibut to a vessel ; eleven ar- 

 rivals from the Western Banks with 70,000 pounds of salt codfish to a 

 vessel ; nine arrivals with averaging fares of 22,000 i)ounds of shore 

 fish; nine arrivals with mackerel, caught on this shore, but mostly 

 small, landing an aggregate of 2,277 barrels, and five arrivals from 

 Nova Scotia, landing 820 barrels of large mackerel. There have also 

 been 30t> barrels of n)ackerel imported from Nova Scotia. 



Mackeeel. — We have sixt}^ sail of mackerel-catchers on the Nova ^ 

 Scotia coast, and they extend from Cape Sable to Cape Canso. Some 

 of the vessels have done well, but all of them were late in reaching the 

 Nova Scotia shore. A large btsdy of mackerel passed to the eastward 

 before the arrival of the vessels. The first mackerel caught at Cape 



