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Newfoundland with 5,715,000 frozeu herring; 10 arrivals from Grand 

 Manan with -4,017,000 frozen herring. There were brought from Maine 

 10,000 boxes of smoked herring and 50 barrels of salted herring. 

 Gloucester, Mass., March 1, 1885. 



SUMMARY. — During the past week there were 19 arrivals from 

 George's "Banks, 18 'of which landed 2,708,000 pounds of codfish and 

 30,600 pounds of fresh halibut, the remaining one landed 50,000 pounds 

 of haddock; 5 arrivals from the Banks with 08,000 pounds of fresh 

 li:-!ibut ; 5 arrivals from Newfoundland with 1,840,000 frozen herring; 

 and 1 arrival from Grand Manan landed 280,000 frozen herring. 



Haddock. — There are 63 vessels engaged in the haddock fishery, 

 and they have done well during the past twelve days. There are 25 

 vessels in Boston to-day with average cargoes of 35,000 pounds of fresh 

 fish — half codfish and half haddock — caught on George's Banks. When 

 the haddock catchers baited their trawls with salted porgy slivers ten 

 years ago, they very seldom caught any codfish ; on the contrary, since 

 frozen herring have been used for bait, as many codfish as haddock are 

 taken on the trawls. It is easily seen that the fares of the vessels us- 

 ing hand-lines are small in comparison with those of the vessels using 

 trawls, and also the annoyance which the former suffers from the lat- 

 ter, when it is known that as soon as a haddock catcher sees a vessel 

 at anchor fishing for codfish with hand-lines, it will set its trawls com- 

 pletely around the vessel, knowing that a good bottom for codfish is a 

 good bottom for haddock. The haddock catchers carry 6 dories, with 

 1,000 hooks to the dory, a total of 0,000 hooks ; while the 12 men on the 

 vessel using hand lines fish 12 lines with 2 hooks to the line, a total of 

 21 hooks. Hence the haddock catchers take the fish. One vessel is 

 now in port with 40,000 pounds of codfish and 20,000 pounds of had- 

 dock, the result of two days' fishing with trawls. The day is near at 

 hand when the cod fishermen will use trawls on George's Banks. 



Cod gill-nets. — There were caught in cod gill-nets and landed at 

 Gloucester during the past week 20,000 pounds of codfish. When the 

 codfish left Ipswich Bay all the boats took up their nets, but some of 

 them fitted out trawls, as the boats using trawls were catching a few 

 fish. Captain McCloud weut to Ipswich Bay March 3 and took 24,000 

 pounds of codfish from 24 nets which had been set only two nights. At 

 present there are 10 boats fishing nets in the bay, and they have all 

 done well since last Tuesday, catching more fish in the nets than with 

 the trawls. The cod sold at 1£ cents per pound all the week. 



Whales. — The fishermen say they have never seen whales so numer- 

 ous ou the eastern shore as at present. The steamer Fannie Sprague, of 

 Booth Bay, formerly used in the porgy fishery, which has been fitted 

 out as a whaler, shot six whales last week. Two of them were safely 

 towed to Booth Bay, but the other four, which sunk, are buoyed. 



Gloucester, Mass., March 8, 1885. 



