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135. -NOTES OIV THE FISHERIES OF C£,OU€ESTER, MASS. 



By S. J. MAKTIl^. 

 [From letters to Prof. S. F. Baird.] 



Mackerel. — The following Gloucester vessels arrived at Kew York 

 yesterday with good fares of small mackerel, which sold at $1 per 

 hundred, namely : Schooners Golden Hind, 80 barrels ; E. L. Eowe, 90 ; 

 Henri y. Woods, CO; Electric Light, 70; Ethel Maud, 125; J. E. Gar- 

 land, 100 ; Goldsmith Maid, 80 ; Martha C, 100 ; Addison Center, 80 ; 

 Henry Dennis, 100 ; also schooner Elsie Smith, of Portland, 150 bar- 

 rels. 



Gloucester, Mass., April 4, 1884. 



Summary.— From April 1, 1884, to date there have been fifty arrivals 

 from George's Bank with an average of 18,000 pounds of cod and 400 

 pounds of halibut to a vessel ; twenty arrivals from Western Bank with 

 small fares averaging 23,000 pounds of salt cod and 7,000 pounds of 

 halibut to a vessel ; and twehe arrivals from Grand Bank with an 

 average of 31,000 pounds of fresh halibut to a vessel. 



Mackerel. — The mackerel fleet has not done well, the catch being 

 small. Some of the vessels were ten days in getting to market, and 

 their cargoes had to be thrown away, as the mackerel were spoiled. It 

 takes from 800 to 1,000 mackerel to fill a barrel. The greater part of 

 the mackerel has been caught 30 miles southeast of Hog Island. 

 Gloucester has eighty sail engaged in the fishery. Most of them bring 

 their mackerel to market fresh. 



The weather out south has been rough up to the present time. Nine- 

 teen seine-boats have been lost and some vessels have been badly 

 damaged. 



Gloucester, Mass., Aiyril 13, 1884. 



SUiMMARY. — Last week there were forty-two arrivals from George's 

 Bank with light fa'res, averaging 14,000 pounds of salt cod and 300 

 pounds of fresh halibut to a vessel ; twelve arrivals from Western Bank, 

 averaging 35,000 pounds of salt cod and 5,000 pounds of fresh halibut 

 to a vessel; and 3 arrivals from the Banks with fresh halibut. 



Halibut. — The number of vessels engaged in halibut fishing is larger 

 than last year, there being an addition of four vessels each from Glou- 

 cester and Portland. Mr. Samuel Pool, of the Atlantic Halibut Com- 

 pany, of Gloucester, Mass., is at Halifax buying halibut and shipping 

 them to Boston. 



Herring. — Herring appeared on the coast on April 15, and were 

 schooling from Eace Point, Cape Cod, to Thatcher's Island, going east. 

 A school of small mackerel was seen 4 miles southeast of Chatham on 



