BO BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES EISH COMMISSION. 



were caught in seventy-six nets, 50 fathoms long and 2i fathoms deep^ 

 and were fished by 95 men. Some of the boats left some of the nets, Dot 

 being able to take all the fish that were in them. When the schooner 

 Hector came to its nets, three of them were found on the top of the 

 water, the buoyancy of the pollock being so great as to part the anchor 

 lines and cause the nets to come to the surface. There were 8",000 

 pounds of fish taken out of three small nets, while one small boat with 

 six nets landed 12,000 pounds. 



The pollock-catchers who use hand lines have hauled up, not being- 

 able to catch any fish. 



The twine now used in the manufacture of cod gill-nets is not fit to 

 use in catching pollock; the nets should be made of salmon twine. A 

 large fleet will use the cod gill-net this winter, and some vessels of 80 

 tons burden are getting ready to set them. Codfish have begun to 

 come on the rocks. They are large, and are mostly females, a number 

 of which are full of ripe spawn. The pollock are large, averaging 23£ 

 pounds in weight, and are half male and half female. Pollock sold 

 to-day at 40 cents, and codfish at $1.10 per 100 pounds. 



Gloucester, Mass., November 2, 1884. 



The cod gill-net fishery is assuming large proportions. There are 

 thirty-five vessels now engaged in it, eight of which are how in Ipswich 

 Bay and the remainder off Half-way Rock, in Boston Bay. A vessel of 

 seventy-five tons usually carries 40 nets. The cod are not very plenty. 

 Last week vessels fishing with nets landed at Gloucester 97,000 pounds of 

 cod and 322,000 pounds of pollock ; at Rockport, 48,000 pounds of cod 

 and 15,000 pounds of pollock ; at Lynn, 70,000 pounds of cod and 32,000 

 pounds of pollock. Some of the fishermen with hand lines are catching- 

 large cod from the schools in Boston Bay, using squid for bait. Boats 

 with two men catch 1,000 pounds per day. 



Gloucester, Mass., November 10, 1884. 



All the vessels tbat were sent to the Grand Banks for cod are home 

 and hauled up. There are a few still fishing on George's. There are 

 fifty-two vessels now fishing with gill-nets, and they catch a large quan- 

 tity of cod and pollock. 



Gloucester, Mass. ; November 19, 1884. 



Summary for November. — During the month there were caught 

 in cod gill-nets 883,000 pounds of cod and 1,057,000 pounds of pollock. 

 There were landed at Rockport 293,000 pounds of cod and 105,000 

 pounds of pollock. There were landed at Lynn 268,000 pounds of cod 

 and 80,000 pounds of pollock. Codfish sold at 2h cents a pound. 



Gloucester, Mass., December 2, 1884. 



Vessels using the cod gill-nets have found fish scarce the past week. 

 December 7th as high as 10,000 pounds were taken, while on the 

 next day only 500 pounds were taken in the same gang of nets. Since 

 last Monday, boats with twenty-five nets have been catching from 300 



