fishermen at sea before landing. Snaall 

 scrod haddock are occasionally landed 

 "in the round" when unusually abundant. 



Information on source of landings 

 (area of capture) and fishing effort ex- 

 pended is obtained primarily from in- 

 terviews with the captains or nnates 

 of the vessels. Landing and selling 

 procedures are well-enough organized 

 in Boston, where 80 percent of U. S. 

 landings are received, t© pernnit agents 

 to obtain interviews of all trawler trips. 

 The proportion of trips landed in other 

 New England ports that are interviewed 

 varies depending upon many circum- 

 stances of the landing procedure and the 

 time of year, but averages about 70 to 

 75 percent. Landings from non-inter- 

 viewed trips are assigned to area of 

 capture on the basis of records from 

 interviewed trips and incidental infor- 

 mation obtained by the agents. De- 

 scriptions of interviewing procedure 

 at New England ports are given by 

 Rounsefell (1948 and 1957) and the 

 haddock fishing grounds are outlined 

 by Schuck (1952). 



Discarded Portion 



In some fisheries the portion dis- 

 carded at sea by fishermen arnounts to 

 a substantial proportion of the total 

 catch. Herrington (1936) estimatedthat 

 63 m-Uion small fish were discarded 

 annually on Georges Bank alone during 

 the early 1930's. The discard has been 

 much less of recent years, particularly 

 since the advent of mesh regulation; 

 slightly over 400,000 small haddock 

 were discarded on Georges Bank in 

 1956. Although the portion of the total 

 catch consisting of discards is snnallat 

 present, we have recorded it in order to 

 make this study inclusive of all sources 

 of removals. 



The amounts discarded at sea are 

 deternnined fronn fishermen's estimates 

 obtained during interviews as described 

 by Premetz (1954). Only Boston 

 trawlers fish extensively on New 

 England grounds in areas where small 

 haddock are abundant. Small amounts 

 of discard have been i:eported occa- 

 sionally at New Bedford, but very 

 rarely at other ports. 



The total reported amount of discard 

 for Subarea 5 is given in table 1 by 

 nnonth and subarea. No discard was re- 

 ported for Subdivision 5Y in 1956. Most 

 of the discard was accounted for by six 

 vessels that were licensed to continue 

 fishing with trawls having the small 

 preregulation size nneshes to serve as 

 a control fleet in determining the benefit 

 of the ICNAF nnesh regulation (Clark, 

 1955). 



Landed Portion 



Quantities of haddock landed are 

 obtained by statistical agents from 

 dealer's records. The statistics col- 

 lecting systems ennployed are adequate 

 to guarantee a nearly complete sum- 

 mation of commercial landings of had- 

 dock for human consumption. 



Total landings of haddock are listed 

 in tables 2a and 2b by month, market 

 size category, and statistical area- 

 units (see Rounsefell, 1948, for basis 

 of establishing these area-units as 

 shown in fig. 2). The landings are sum- 

 marized by East and West sections for 

 5Z and North and South sections for 5Y 

 in conformance ■with kno'wn differences 

 in stock composition and fishing fleet 

 composition. 



Quantities landed are expressed in 

 gutted weight to conform with usual 

 reporting procedures. Infrequent land- 

 ings of haddock "in the round" are con- 

 verted to gutted weight by the factor 

 0.855. We have included only those 

 haddock landed for direct human con- 

 sumption. Haddock landed for human 

 consunnption are nearly always sepa- 

 rated from other species and recorded 

 and sold as haddock. Consequently, the 

 total quantities of haddock landed for 

 hunnan consumption can usually be 

 determined without risk of error caused 

 by mixture with other species. How- 

 ever, one market situation exists that 

 has not permitted identification of had- 

 dock. This involves a fishery for mixed 

 groundfish at Gloucester, Mass., 

 wherein fish are iced and boxed at sea 

 and unloaded at irregular hours di- 

 rectly into trucks for shipment to New 

 York. Species connposition cannot be 



