204 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



The fleet. — The weather has been extremely cold and windy. The 

 schooner Virginia Dare arrived from the banks with frozen herring ; 

 most of the crew were frost-bitten. The schooner Henry Longfellow 

 has also arrived from George's Banks, with 10 of the men frost-bitten. 

 Vessels from George's Banks bring good fares. Thirty of the fleet 

 sailed for those banks last week, and as many more will sail this next 

 week. Of the 25 vessels which go for fresh halibut, all are out but 1. 



Some of the mackerel fleet will start for the south about March 1, 

 while some even talk of starting February 20. 



There are 4 vessels on their way home from Newfoundland, and 10 

 vessels from Grand Manan, with full cargoes of frozen herring. Five 

 vessels have left this port for Grand Manan for frozen herring ; and it 

 is expected that in a week's time there will be plenty of these fish. 

 Codfish will be coming in quite freely within ten days. 



Cod gill-nets. — The vessels using cod gill-nets met with better suc- 

 cess last week than the week previous. At Kockport 40 boats landed 

 162,000 pounds of codfish, which brought a large price. The average 

 price during the week was 3| cents a pound. 



Gloucester, Mass., January 25, 1885. 



Summary. — During the month of January there have been 12 arrivals 

 from George's Banks, landing 330,000 pounds of salt cod and 31,000 

 pounds of frest halibut ; 6 arrivals from the Banks with 14,300 pounds 

 of fresh halibut ; 5 arrivals from Grand Manan with 1,120,000 frozen 

 herring ; 2 arrivals from Newfoundland with 775,000 herring ; 1 arrival 

 from Eastport with 4,000 boxes of smoked herring ; also 19,000 pounds 

 of codfish and 70,000 pounds of haddock caught in nets. 



Cod gill-nets. — There have been landed at Bockport 455,000 pounds 

 of fish; at Portsmouth, 155,000 pounds of fish; and at Lynn 02,000 

 pounds of fish ; all being caught in nets. 



Some of the vessels using trawls in Ipswich Bay have done better 

 than the netters. The fish caught on the trawls are mostly males, but 

 not so large as the fish that are taken in the nets, which are mostly 

 females of large size. 



Gloucester, Mass., February 1, 1885. 



Summary. — The George's Banks fleet has not done well, 5 arrivals hav- 

 ing landed only 130,000 pounds of codfish and 10,000 pounds of halibut. 

 Tliere have been 9 arrivals from the Banks, 4 landing 02,000 pounds of 

 halibut, and the remaining 5 bringing S4,000 pounds of haddock. The 

 arrivals from Grand Manan were 4, with 970,000 frozen herring. 



Bad weather. — For the last twenty-one days the weather has been 

 cold and windy, and during the past week the ice in the harbors has 

 been a foot thick. Vessels at Newfoundland will have a difficult time 

 in reaching home. A telegram from Capt. Charles Martin, of the 

 schooner Mystery, at Saint Pierre, Newfoundland, states that he. has 

 been waiting with a load of frozen herring since January 21. The 



