50 FISHERMEN'S OWN BOOK. 



First Trips. 



The first codfishing trips to Georges were made in 182 1, and the first cod- 

 fishino- trips to the Bay St. Lawrence the same year. The Georges haUbut 

 fishery was inaugurated in 1830. 



The first salt herring trip to Newfoundland was made in 1837 or 1838 by 

 Capt. James W. Pattillo, in the pinkey Tiger. The Newfoundland fresh 

 herring fishery was inaugurated in 1854 by sch. Flying Cloud, Capt. Henry 

 O. Smith. The first frozen herring marketed in New York was in 1857, by 

 sch. E. C. Smith, Capt. Sylvanus Smith. Th*e first cargo of herring ever 

 shipped from Gloucester to a foreign port were sent to Gottenberg in sch. 

 Niilli Secundiis, in 1876. 



The first Greenland halibut trip was made in 1866, by sch. John Atwood, 

 of Provincetown, chartered by Messrs. John F. Wonson & Co., Dodd, Tarr 

 & Co., and Mr. George J. Marsh. She sailed June 29, commanded by 

 Capt. G. P. Pomeroy of New London, Conn.", with Capt. Averill L. York of 

 this city as fishing master, and arrived home Oct. 14, selling her fletched 

 halibut at 9 cts. per pound, and stocking $5,500. Sch. Caleb S. Eaton, 

 Capt. John S. McQuin, made a Greenland trip in 1869 and again in 1870. 



The first and only fishing trip to Iceland from this port was made by 

 Capt. John S. McQuin, in sch. Memhrino Chief, in 1873. 



Sch. Notice, Capt. Knud Markuson, made a mackerel-seining trip on the 

 coast of Norway, in 1878. 



The importation of fish 10 the West Indies was revived by Capt. Charles 

 A. Homans in 1878. 



Mackerel catching was first pursued by small boats about 1800. The 

 mode of catching by drifting and " throwing bait " did not become general 

 until after 18 12. The jig hook was invented by Mr. Abraham Lurvey of 

 Pio-eon Cove, in 1816. Fly lines did not come into use until about 1823. 

 Bait mills were not used until 1820, when they were made of nails driven in 

 straight lines across wooden cylinders and then sharpened. The first bait 

 mill with knives was made by Mr. Gorham Burnham in 1822, and the knives 

 were first placed in spiral form in 1823. The first trip for mackerel to cure 

 was made by sch. President, Capt. Simeon Burnham, in 18 18. Mackerel 

 were first caught on Georges in 1822, by Capt. William Marshall. The first 

 mackereling trip from Gloucester to the Bay St. Lawrence was made by 

 Capt. Charles P. Wood in sch. Mariner, in 1830. Sch. Eliza Jane, Capt. 

 Stephen Brown, made a Bay mackereling trip the same season, and two 

 of the crew who made the trip, Messrs. John Hodgkins and John N. Day 

 of Riverdale, are still living. Sch. Clio, of East Salisbury, is said to have 



