16 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



white, and 6 cents a pound for gray. The outlook for fresh fish is good. 

 Haddock have not sold less than 2£ cents per pound. Cod sold for 

 3 cents a pound all the week. There is a good school of cod in Ipswich 

 Bay — large fish. Schooner Rising Star caught 20,000 pounds in three 

 days. The rest of the boats have done as well. One of the Rockport 

 boats set 12 nets where they were getting 6,000 pounds on trawls in one 

 day. When they hauled the nets they got 200 pounds. They cannot 

 get trawl- fish in nets, or net-fish on trawls ; that has been well tried. 

 The southern mackerel fleet have not done much. The schooner Mertie 

 Delmar was in ISfew York Monday ; she had 130 barrels of medium sized 

 mackerel caught 30 miles southeast from Cape Henry. Last year the 

 first mackerel were caught on the 23d day of March. The next were 

 caught April 19, when 12 sail arrived with 1,705 [barrels] ; the next were 

 caught April 25, when 30 sail arrived in ISTew York -with 6,000 barrels 

 of fresh mackerel. The mackerel sold in New York Tuesday at 10 and 

 Y> cents each. All the old mackerel are out of the market. The first 

 salt mackerel will bring a good price. I hope the mackerel-catchers 

 have learned a lesson during the past summer about selling their mack- 

 erel out of pickle to save inspection. They began to sell mackerel out 

 of pickle five years ago. The last three summers it has been carried 

 on extensively. Mackerel were sold out of pickle last year for $4 per 

 barrel and were sold afterwards for $10 per barrel. I don't see where 

 the general inspector gets his pay when mackerel are sold out of pickle, 

 that is, if he gets so much for inspection on a barrel. Perhaps the law 

 is altered; if not, there is a good deal of hush money. When mackerel 

 are sold out of pickle it hurts the market. When the speculators get 

 them the fish are all culled over: number ones made of number twos ; 

 number ticos of number threes and they make twelve twenty-pound 

 kits out of a barrel. If a man buys inspected mackerel he gets what 

 belongs to him; if they are not inspected he does not. 



The boat which arrived from Ipswich Bay this morning was the An- 

 nie Hodgdon with 15,000 pounds of nice cod in two days fishing with 

 trawls. 



A school of haddock has made its appearance on the coast during the 

 past three days. One man, in a dory, yesterday, caught 500 pounds 

 about one-half mile southeast from Eastern Point. If there is plenty of 

 bait the small vessels will do well. The prospect is good for all kinds 

 of fish. 



Gloucester, Mass., April 1G, 1882. 



There were 64 arrivals from the fishing-grounds during the last week: 

 25 from George's, 13 from tbe Western Bank, 2 halibut catchers, and 24 

 from shore fishing. Two vessels have done well seining herring : schooner 

 Northern Eagle seined 200 barrels in three days; schooner Phantom 

 seined 250 barrels last week. Two hundred barrels were caught in the 

 trap at Kettle Island. The herring sold fresh to the vessels for bait at 

 $2.75 per barrel. The herring have not been so plentiful on the coast 



