208 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



Summary. — The following are the arrivals at this port during the 

 past week : Forty from George's Banks, 39 with 2,099,000 pounds of 

 codfish and 34,000 pounds of halibut, and 1 with 10,000 pounds of had- 

 dock ; 7 from the Banks with 250,000 pouuds of fresh halibut ; 1 from 

 Le Have Banks with 10,000 pounds of codfish and 24,000 pounds of 

 fresh halibut; 12 from Ipswich Bay, landing 55,000 pounds of shore cod- 

 fish caught on trawls; 9 from Grand Manan, with 5,810,000 frozen her- 

 ring; and 2 arrivals from Fortune Bay, Newfoundland, with 570 frozen 

 herring. There were also received 750 quintals of dried mixed fish by 

 freight from Maine, and 10,000 boxes of smoked herring from Eastport. 



George's Banks.— There has been a large school of codfish and 

 haddock on George's Banks, and all the vessels have brought in good 

 fares of both kinds of fish. The halibut catchers did well the last trip, 

 and four fares are being discharged in the harbor at 5 cents a pound by 

 the cargo. 



Price. — The price of fresh fish is low. Codfish sells for \\ cents a 

 pound; fresh haddock at 80 cents a hundred pounds. Large codfish, 

 caught in nets last night, sold for 1J cents a pound. Salt fish sell at 

 better figures ; salt fish green from the 'vessel bring 2 £ cents a pound, 

 newly dried George's codfish bring $4.75 a quintal. 



Cod gill-nets. — Vessels using cod gill-nets still do well. There 

 were 245,000 pounds of codfish caught in nets last week and landed at 

 Eockport and Portsmouth. The schooner Blue Jay landed 1G,000 

 pounds of codfish at Eockport last night, the result of three nights' fish- 

 ing. The other boats have done equally well. 



Gloucester, Mass., March 15, 1885. 



Cod gill-nets. — There is a large school of codfish in Ipswich Bay, 

 and a good many are being taken with cod gill-nets. Three weeks ago 

 most of the fish were taken on trawls, but now the trawls have been 

 put ashore and nets are principally used. The cod of the first school 

 that came into the bay this winter were small, averaging 18 pounds 

 each, and were mostly males. The fish now caught average 39 pounds 

 as they come out of the water. I weighed 4 large fish yesteday amount- 

 ing to 224 pounds. They were mostly females and full of spawn. In 

 two nights last week 3 vessels caught 20,000. 



Bank arrivals. — There were 25 arrivals from George's Banks last 

 week, with average fares of 45,000 pounds each. The haddock catchers 

 landed 104,000 pounds of codfish last week. The 4 halibut catchers 

 that arrived last week averaged 30,000 pounds each. All these were 

 from the Grand Banks. 



Prices. — Fresh halibut sold by the cargo at 5 cents per pound, cod- 

 fish at 2 cents per pound, and haddock at 1£ cents per pound. The 

 large cod caught in nets sold at 2£ cents per pound for steak. 



There have 32 vessels gone south for mackerel. 



Gloucester, Mass., March 22, 1885. 



