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the seine was torn away. The vessel arrived this morning with half 

 the seine gone, and came near losing the boat. The captain says he 

 thinks there were 500 barrels in the seine. Mackerel sold yesterday 

 for $0.25 per barrel. I think they will be worth $7 per barrel next 

 week. The last mackerel caught on Cashe's were of good quality. A 

 trip of 330 barrels, packed there Friday, contained 30 barrels of No. 

 ones, 150 barrels No. twos, and 150 barrels No. threes. The mackerel 

 in the Bay of Fundy are not so fat as those caught on Cashe's ; the 

 mackerel caught on Friday, just referred to, being the best caught this 

 year. The largest and fattest mackerel are sold as fast as they arrive. 



Dried George's cod took a jump yesterday from 86 per quintal to 

 $6.50. George's codfish are scarce. There have been twenty arrivals 

 from George's during the past week, averaging 12,000 pounds to the 

 vessel, selling their fares at $3.50 a hundred out of the vessel. That is 

 the highest price paid for codfish since the war. Codfish are scarce on 

 all the inshore grounds. Hake are plentiful. The fishermen say the 

 hake have not been so abundant for twenty years. Dried fish of all 

 kinds is high. George's cod will be sold for $7 a quintal next month. 



I was much pleased, while rowing round the harbor yesterday, to see 

 the name "Spencer F. Baird" on the stern of anew, handsome schooner. 

 Capt. John Viberwill command her. 



Gloucester, Mass., July 23, 1882. 



Since Monday morning there have been 63 arrivals with salt mack- 

 erel, full fares, the vessels averaging 330 barrels each — the largest 

 week's arrival of mackerel this year. The last sales were at $7 per 

 barrel with the barrel. Two vessels, absent seven days, returned with 

 400 barrels. The mackerel have all been caught from Cashe's to Grand 

 Manan Island, Bay of Fundy. They are all offshore. 



The codfish on the eastern shore is a failure this season. Nothing but 

 hake there. The cod were plentiful last season. The small boats on 

 the eastern shore have not done anything this summer; no cod, no 

 mackerel, no hake inshore. The vessels that fish on the George's Bank 

 find the codfish scarce. Some vessels, absent two weeks, arrived with 

 4,000 and 5,000 pounds codfish. Codfish are high; sold green out of the 

 vessel at $4.35 per hundred pounds. Dried George's cod sold at $7 a 

 quintal. All kinds of fish are very high. 



Schooner Martha C, which arrived last night, reports bluefish plen- 

 tiful on the western part of Cashe's. There have been no bluefish on 

 the eastern shore this summer inshore. Last Thursday night a large 

 school of whiting, or Old England hake, came in the harbor. All the 

 nets were full of them; two horse-cart loads were taken out of a small 

 trap set in the harbor. Some of them were large and full of spawn. 



Tie dogfish are abundant all along the coast. Captain Gill, in a 

 small vessel, with four men, caught 3,000 in one day on trawls. They 

 yielded 73 buckets of livers, which sold at 55 cents per bucket. 



Gloucester, Mass., July 30, 1882. 



