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and one of 225,000 lbs.; from March 8 to October 15 the Josie Af. Cahier- 

 wood made five trips to the Western and Grand Banks and Banquereau, 

 taking in round numbers 400,000 lbs. codfish and 55,000 lbs. halibut, stock- 

 ing $10,475, believed to be the best season's work in the Bank codfishery. 

 The largest amount of Bank codfish ever landed at Gloucester in a single 

 week was 3,620,000 lbs., twenty-five fares, for the week ending July 27, 1876, 

 the total codfish receipts for that week being 4,448,000 lbs.; for the week 

 ending Sept. 16, 1880, fifteen fares of 2,057,000 Bank codfish were landed 

 at Gloucester, and for the week ending Sept. 13, 1877, 2,000,000 lbs. Sch. 

 Plymouth Rock took 225,000 lbs. on one Bank trip in 1878. On a five 

 months' trip in 1873 sch. Carrie P. Morton^ Capt. Charles A. Keene, took 

 192,000 lbs. codfish and 28,050 lbs. halibut, stocking $7,888, the crew shar- 

 ing $326.16, the best stock on one trip in this fishery of which we have any 

 record. Sch. Knight Templar, Capt. Michael McDonald, stocked $7,681.25 

 on one trip in 1873, being absent only two and one-half months. In 1877 

 sch. Concord, Capt. John Dago, landed 185,000 lbs. codfish and 57,000 lbs. 

 halibut, from a Western Bank trip, stocking $7,100 in four months and two 

 days. Sch. Ben: Perky Poore, Capt. Charles H. Nute, landed 180,695 ^t)^- 

 codfish and 10,597 lbs. halibut from a fourteen weeks' trip in 1872, stocking 

 $6,345.69, the crew sharing $257.29. In 1879 the Corinna H. Bishop arrived 

 home in August from a seventeen weeks' Bank trip, with 186,780 lbs. large 

 codfish, 2.315 lbs. small do., and 1,214 ^bs. fletched halibut, having sold 

 14,000 lbs. in Newfoundland, giving her a catch of 204,309 lbs. fish. 



FLETCHED HALIBUT. 



The largest Bank fare of fletched halibut ever landed at Gloucester was 

 153,044 lbs. in sch. Reunion, Capt. Belcher Torrey, in 1868. She had also 

 23,875 lbs. codfish, and stocked on a twelve weeks' trip $8,354 (the best 

 Bank stock on one trip yet reported), the crew sharing $286.63. 



FRESH HALIBUT. 



The largest fare of fresh halibut ever landed at Gloucester was 140,000 

 lbs., by sch. G. P. Whitman, Capt. Jerome McDonald, from a Bank trip in 

 1877. The next largest fare was landed by sch. Centennial, Capt. Dennis 

 C. Murphy, from a three weeks' trip in 1876, landing 129,577 lbs. and 5,000 

 lbs. codfish; on her first ten trips the Centennial took 1,160,000 lbs. halibut. 

 In 1875 sch. Chester R. Lawrence, Capt. Thomas Hodgdon, took on one trip 

 126,566 lbs. halibut and 5,480 lbs. codfish. The next year sch. Davy 

 Crockett took 103,000 lbs. on her first trip, which sold at 6 and 3 cts. per lb. 

 for white and gray. Sch. William T. Merchant took 103,450 lbs. in twenty- 

 five days, in i868. The best fare landed in 1881 was brought in by the 



