The landings with which we are concerned here are those made 

 by vessels that are fishing a population wholly or in part for fish for 

 reduction. This report is not concerned with those occasional trips of 

 spoiled food fish that are sold for reduction, or those occasional trips 

 of food fish sold for reduction because a skipper is not satisfied with 

 the market price. The former situation occurs at all ports, the latter 

 principally at Gloucester in connection with the silver hake fishery. 

 In the main this fishery is a split fishery in that vessels land both fish 

 for reduction and fish for food. In general terms, the southern New 

 England industrial trawl fishery is based on a flounder economy and the 

 Gulf of Maine fishery is based on a silver hake economy. 



The present report is concerned solely with presenting an 

 estimation of the landings of the various species involved at the 

 principal New England ports. In 1957, the landings totaled about 

 168 million pounds, by port as follows- Gloucester, 37 million pounds. 

 New Bedford, 42 million pounds, and Point Judith, 89 million pounds. 

 For a summary of New England landings prior to 1957, see Edwards and 

 Lux 1958. For general information on the Pt. Judith fishery, see 

 Interim Report: The Flounder and Industrial Fishery Project.^' 

 For a detailed discussion of this fishery at Gloucester, see Edwards 

 1958.2/ 



REMARKS ON THE SAMPLING PROCEDURE 



At Pt. Judith, the catch is normally sampled by forking fish out 

 of a conveyor belt as the fish are transported from the vessel to the 

 reduction plant. Fish to be sampled are similarly obtained at New 

 Bedford, but at Gloucester the catch is sampled from a dump truck. 

 Proper precautions are taken to assure that the samples are not taken 

 from mixed area trips. Complete interviews are made of all trips as 

 far as possible, sampled or not. 



1-/ Interim Report: The Flounder and Industrial Fishery Project. 

 Multilithed report prepared by R. L. Edwards for the Annual Meeting 

 of the Point Judith Fishermen's Cooperative Ass'n , Inc. , 

 February 10, 1956. Available on request from North Atlantic Fishery 

 Investigations, Woods Hole, Massachusetts. 



2 / 



— ' Edwards, Robert L. 1958. The Industrial Trawl Fishery at 



Gloucester. Manuscript. 



