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six arrivals with 105,000 pounds of fresh halibut. There were four ar- 

 rivals to-day from Grand Banks. Four vessels from jSTova Scotia sold 

 their fish at $1.00 per hundred pounds. The Grand Banks cod-schooner 

 Ethel, of Nova Scotia, had 37o,000 pounds of salt codfish, the largest 

 trip of salt codfish ever landed in Gloucester by one vessel. This cargo 

 ■was sold at $1.05 per hundred pounds. The Gloucester firms will lose 

 a great deal on the Grand Banks fish, as the Nova Scotia vessels are 

 stocking the place with fish at low prices. I have known some firms to 

 pay $2.25 per hundred for Grand Banks codfish. 



Mackerel. — There have been landed 8,417 barrels of mackerel 

 caught in the Bay of Fundy, and 3,551 barrels caught in the Bay of 

 Saint Lawrence. There were shipped from Canso by rail 1,314 barrels 

 of mackerel. The mackerel tak(.n in the bay are of good quality, large 

 and fat, three-fourths of the amount caught being No. 1, and the re- 

 maining quarter No. 2. No. I mackerel from the Bay of Saint Law- 

 rence sold at $13 per barrel, and the Bay of Fundy mackerel sold at 

 $3.75 per barrel, '* as they run." Vessels from North Bay report mack- 

 erel schooling from Cape Canso to Cape Sable, and that they are of the 

 same size as the mackerel in the Bay of Fundy. 



Gloucestee, Mass., August 24, 1884. 



Monthly summary. — The receipts of fish at Gloucester during the 



month of August were as follows: Eleven million eight hundred and 



twenty-six Thousand pountis salt cod, 647,250 pounds fresh halibut, 



147,900 pounds salt halibut, 41,322 barrels salt mackerel, 370 barrels 



'herring, and 85 swordflnii weighing 20,340 pounds. 



The above fish arrived from the following grounds : George's Bank, 

 118 fares, 2,578,000 pounds salt cod and 40,050 pounds fresh halibut; 

 Grand Bank, 41 fares, 8,380,000 pounds salt cod and 72,500 pounds salt 

 halibut; Grand Bank, Banquereau, &c., 21 fares, 599,000 pounds 

 fresh halibut ; Western Bank, Banquereau, «S:c., 9 fares, 474,000 pounds 

 salt cod and 5,400 pounds salt halibut ; Bay of Saint Lawrence, 14 fares, 

 7,332 barrels salt mackerel ; American shore, 88 fares, 33,990 barrels 

 salt mackerel; shore fishing grounds, coast of Maine, &c., 314,000 

 ]X)und8 salt fish, mixed ; swordfishermen, 85 swordfish, weighing 

 26,340 pounds ; traps near Gloucester, 370 barrels herring, 100 barrels 

 mackerel ; off Gloucester Harbor, in seine, 134 bluefish. 



The first arrival from the Greenland- fleet, schooner H. M. Rogers, 

 brings home 80,000 pounds salt cod from Flemish Cape, and 70,000 

 pounds salt halibut taken off the Greenland coast. 



Gloucester, Mass., September 1, 1884. 



The Greenland halibut fishery. — I have gained the following 

 information about this fishery, two vessels having arrived from that 

 region during the past week. These vessels came iiome earlier than in 

 former years and have left several vessels on the coast. The two 

 schooners arrived are the M H. Perkins and Herbert M. Rogers. The 



