92 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



Mackerel. — Four vessels from tlie Bay of St. Lawrence brought 

 1,180 barrels of salt mackerel. Ou the 9th of iSTovember the schooner 

 Charles C. Warreu caught 250 barrels of mackerel at one haul of tbe 

 seine in Margaret's Bay, N-ova Scotia. There are three more vessels 

 coming from the Bay of St. Lawrence with 300 barrels of mackerel each. 



Tbat will end the mackerel fishing for this year. 



Gale. — Fears are entertained for the safety of four haddock catchers 

 which were on George's Bank in the gale of November 12-13. Had- 

 dock are plenty on George's Bank, but there has beeu no sale for them 

 for the last three days. There are five vessels here with haddock to sell 

 to the slitters at three quarters of a cent a pound. 



Gloucester, Mass., Novemher 25, 1883. 



Summary. — I send you the amount of fish landed at Gloucester dur- 

 ing the month of November. Shore mackerel, 0,572 barrels; mackerel 

 from the Bay of St. Lawrence 3,787 barrels ; mackerel caught ou the 

 Nova Scotian shore, 551 barrels ; George's cod, 1,108,000 pounds ; George's 

 halibut, 34,400 pounds; Western Bank codfish, 211,000 pounds; West- 

 ern Bank halibut, 7,900 pounds. Fish caught in cod gill-nets, 1,330,000 

 pounds codfish, 174,000 pounds pollock. Haddock caught ou George's 

 landed at Gloucester 495,000 pounds; shorefish, 21,300 j)ounds: hake 

 and cusk, 3,000 pounds ; haddock, 4,000 j^ounds ; codfish, 18,000 pounds ; 

 pollock, 49,000 pounds. Codfish caught in Bay of Fuudy, 51,000 pounds. 



Fish ou freight from Maine, 5,450 quintals hake, 500 quintals codfish, 

 40 barrels of herring. Fish imported from Nova Scotia, 607 quintals 

 codfish, 10 barrels of mackerel. Fish caught in cod gill nets landed 

 at Eockport and Portsmouth during the month of November, 183,000 

 pounds. 



Gloucester, Mass., December 3, 1883. 



Cod and halibut. — The vessels from George's Bank all brought in 

 good fares of cod. They found plenty of squid on the bank all the fall 

 and until last week, when the squid disai^peared. None of the halibut 

 fishers returned last week and the price of halibut was high. All that 

 the George's vessels brought in sold at 20 cents a pound. 



Gloucester, Mass., December 10, 1883. 



Monthly summary. — I send you the amount of fish lauded at Glou- 

 cester during the month of December. George's codfish, 010,000 

 pounds; George's halibut, 22,000 j)ounds; fish caught in the cod gill- 

 nets, 1,120,000 ])ouuds ; fresh halibut, 230,000 pounds; mackerel, 140 

 barrels; haddock, 230,000 pounds; cusk, 15,000 pounds; pollock, 3,000 

 i poimds. Fish imported form Nova Scotia : 472 quintals of cod, 100 

 ^ quijitals of pollock, 50 quintals of hake, 22 barrels of oil, 600 quintals 

 of hake on freight froni Maine. Smoked herring from Eastport, 5,000 

 boxes; frozen herring from Grand Mauan,300 barrels. Fish caught in 



