92 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



Fishing has been good the past month. The mackerel catchers have 

 done well. A large body of mackerel have been down the Nova Scotian 

 coast. Three large fares arrived during the last two days : Schooner 

 Leona, 540 barrels; schooner Henry N. Woods, 440 barrels; schooner 

 I. E. Garland, 400 barrels. These three trips were caught 25 miles W. S. 

 W. from Seal Island, Nova Scotia. Some of the vessels found plenty of 

 mackerel S. E. 30 miles from Mount Desert Bock. When the mackerel 

 get in that locality they seem to stop. Last year mackerel were on the 

 same ground in the months of July and August. The largest mackerel 

 I have seen this year were caught in the traps at Cape Sable. They 

 were two-thirds large. Those now caught on the eastern shore are one- 

 third large, and I think the body of large mackerel passed down the 

 Novia Scotian shore. All the mackerel they have caught in nets from 

 Cape Sable to Canso are large. 



Mackerel sell as fast as they arrive. There were 2,000 barrels here 

 this morning. All sold at 12 m. for $5 per barrel; $4 a barrel not- 

 rimmed ; that is, barrel and all. The first school of mackerel came along 

 the 1st of June ; there were some shad mixed with them. Ten days ago, 

 off Portland, some of the fishermen set nets for mackerel and caught 

 some large shad and small ones. They have caught some in all the weirs 

 along the coast. Mackerel and shad will go together; so will mackerel 

 and herring. Two vessels set their seine around a school of mackerel ; 

 when they got the seine pursed up they were part herring and part 

 mackerel. Some of the shad are large; some are small. I saw one 

 taken from a trap at Kettle Island which weighed 5£ pounds. Seven 

 salmon have been caught in the traps at Kettle Island ; three caught at 

 Milk Island. The codfish on the shore gronnd are scarce. Hake axe 

 very plentiful. The oldest fishermen say they never saw hake so abun- 

 dant as they were the first of June. A vessel catching 40,000 pounds 

 salt fish gets two-thirds hake. Last year they would have two-thirds 

 codfish. 



The amount of fish landed here during the month of June was as fol- 

 lows: George's cod, 2,514,000 pounds; George's halibut, 99,300 pounds; 

 Western Bank cod, 5,684,000 pounds; Western Bank halibut, 89,400 

 pounds; shore fish (mixed), 1,235,000 pounds; Grand Bank halibut, 

 400,000 pounds; received from Maine (mixed), 1,500 quintals; from 

 British provinces (mixed), 3,200 quintals; mackerel, 25,9G0 barrels; 

 mackerel (fresh to can), 735 barrels; herring, 80 barrels. 



Gloucester, Mass., July 5, 1882. 



During the past week thirty-five schooners have arrived with full 

 fares of mackerel, averaging 300 barrels per vessel. The vessels have 

 done best on Cashe's. A week ago they did well in the Bay of Fundy; 

 some of them doing very well on Cashe's. All the mackerel come across 

 Cashe's. Schooner Eliza Abby set her seine around a school of mack- 

 erel, on Friday, on Cashe's, and got so many fish that the middle of 



