The dates and area. fished on these trips are listed in table 1. 

 Most of the fishing was conducted on the Northern Edge (86? sets). The 

 remainder of the fishing was in the South Channel area C169 sets), and on 

 the Southeast Part (II8 sets) and Southwest Part (113 sets) of Georges. 

 A total of 1,267 sets was made on these seventeen trips j an average of about 

 fix sets per trip. 



The success of this study has been the result of the cooperation 

 of many people. The authors wish to express their thanks to all members of 

 the fishing industry who cooperated in this study. We are especially 

 grateful to the crews of the trawlers on which the Fish and Wildlife 

 Service observers shipped, and to the owners of these vessels for their 

 splendid cooperation. 



The observers were Robert L, Cory, James W, McKee and Craig 

 Slater, The port interviews were conducted by David F. Hammack and 

 Thomas F. O'Leary at Boston, and George W, Snow at New Bedford, Harriett 

 Murray assisted in the tabulation of the data, 



PART I , PORT SAMPLING 

 ESTIMATED DESTRUCTION, 19^2 



Since 19U7, the Fish and Wildlife Service port interviewer at 

 Boston has obtained from Captains of vessels landing at that port, 

 estimates of pounds of haddock discarded on each trip and information as 

 to the area in #d.ch the destruction occurred. Data collected during 

 1952 is presented in this report. 



Since landings of haddock at New Bedford had increased, a system 

 for obtaining destruction estimates from fishing masters was inaugu- 

 rated at that port in July 195l» This system is similar to that employed 

 at the Boston Fish Pier, 



Quantity of Discard 



Skippers' estimates of the destruction of haddock on Georges Bank, 

 as collected by port interviewers at Boston and New Bedford during 1952, 

 are summarized in table 2, Figure 2 shows the Boston port agent of the 

 Fish and Vfi-ldlife Service interviewing the mate of one of the Boston 

 trawlers. 



The total haddock discard estimated by the skippers of the Boston 

 and New Bedford trawlers during 1952 was approximately U.9 million 

 pounds (U.h million individual fish). Of this total, about li.2 million 

 pounds (3»8 million individuals), representing 86 percent, was reported by 

 the Boston fleet. This quantity reported in 1952 in Boston approximated 



