NEW BEDFORD LANDINGS 



Interview information on the landings at New Bedford indicates 

 that about 90% of the trips landed are from No Man's. Approximately 

 50% of the New Bedford trips were interviewed. The entire landings 

 were therefore broken down with the data obtained from No Man's 

 samples. In view of the great similarity of the other local fishing 

 grounds, only a very negligible error, if any, is introduced by this 

 action. 



GLOUCESTER LANDINGS 



The Gloucester landings originate from three general areas, 

 referred to here as the Ipswich area, Nauset, and Stellwagen Bank. 

 Since these areas differ considerably as far as the fish landed are 

 concerned, the data is broken down accordingly. Approximately 90% of 

 the trips landed at Gloucester were interviewed. A number of pure 

 trips of silver hake were landed for reduction at Gloucester. These 

 figures are not available, except for August, when an estimated 7 35, 000 

 pounds of silver hake were landed for reduction from Stellwagen Bank. 

 The Gloucester vessels will frequently fish two or more grounds 

 during any one trip. Even with the excellent interview information 

 available, a considerable amount of prorating was necessary. 

 Thirty-seven percent of the trips were multiple area trips. 



CATCH-PER-TRIP DATA 



A table is included indicating the number of interviewed trips 

 to each ground at Pt. Judith and Gloucester and the average catch per 

 trip. The catch-per-trip data are based on interviewed single area 

 trips so that it may serve as a rough index of abundance. It will be 

 noticed that number of trips used in the calculations for the three 

 Gloucester grounds is far less than the total number of trips for 

 Gloucester for any one month, because the Gloucester vessels have a 

 strong tendency to fish on two or more grounds during any one trip. 



ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 



The author wishes to acknowledge the assistance of Miss 

 Elizabeth Gallagher in processing the bulk of the data presented. 



