166 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 

 Table II. — Receipts of /rotten herring at Gloucester. 



Date. 



1885, 



January 



February 



March 



Total 



From Grand Manan. 



Cargoes. 



5 



19 

 18 



42 



Number of 

 fish. 



1,100,000 

 5, 18:i, 000 

 4, 005, 000 



From Fortune Bay, 

 Newfoundland. 



Cargoes. 



Number of 

 fish. 



2 



15 



8 



10, 888, 000 



25 



775, 000 

 5, 900, 000 

 2, 260, OOD 



8, 995, 000 



Total from Grand Manan and Newfoundland, 67 cargoes, with 19,883,000 herring. 

 The number of vessels engaged from Newfoundland was 25 sail ; from Grand Manan, 32 sail ; total, 

 57 sail. 



One vessel made two trips to Fortune Bay ; 1 returned in ballast, all others with one cargo each ; 23 

 made one trip, 8 two trips, and 1 three trips to Grand Manan. 



* 

 Table III. — Receipts o/ ground fish at Gloucester, Mass. 



36.— NEW ENOL.AND FISHERIES I.X APRIL, 1S85. 



By W. A. WILCOX. 



April is usually one of the dullest mouths in the year with the fish 

 trade, aud also one of the busiest with the producer, the past mouth 

 proving no exception. 



The demand for all kiuds of fish has been very light and prices uu- 

 precedentedly low. Tbe producers have been busy iu preparing for the 

 season's work, large additions have been made to the fleets, and the 

 close of the month finds the larger part of the vessels actively engaged 

 or nearly ready to sail. The Grand Banks cod fleet is leaving later 

 than usual; will not number as many sail; most of them will make only 



