144 REPOKT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Mr. Townsend, assistant in charge, after representing the Commis- 

 sion at a meeting of the American Fisheries Society at Milwaukee, 

 Wis., in July, made a reconnaissance of the fisheries of the Great 

 Lakes west of Lake Ontario. In June he accompanied the Assistant 

 Secretary of State to The Hague in connection with the arbitration 

 of American whaling and sealing claims against Russia. 



Capt. S. J. Martin and Mr. F. F. Dimick, statistical agents of the 

 division located at Boston and Gloucester, Mass., have continued to 

 submit their monthly reports on the quantity and value of certain 

 fishery products landed at those port.- by American vessels. 



Mr. A. B. Alexander, of the steamer A/hatross, was employed for a 

 short time in making inquiries relative to the increase, among commer- 

 cial fishermen, of hook-and-line fishing for salmon at Monterey, Cal., 

 and elsewhere on the Pacific coast. 



The following bulletins, issued as single sheets, containing advance 

 statistics in condensed form, were widely distributed during the year: 



114. Lobster fishery of the United States, 1900. 



117. Statement of the quantity and value of certain fishery products landed at 

 Boston and Gloucester, Mass., by American fishing vessels during the year 1901. 



Other bulletins, showing the quantity and value of fishery products 

 landed at Boston and Gloucester, have been issued monthly as usual. 



The publications appearing during the year which were prepared in 

 this division were: 



Records and bibliography of the steamship Albatrons, by C. H. Townsend. 



Statistics of the fisheries of the Great Lakes. 



Notes on the fisheries of the Pacific coast, by W. A. Wilcox (in press). 



BOSTON AND GLOUCESTER. 



^ The local agents of the Coumiission at Boston and Gloucester have 

 continued to make monthly reports on the great fisheries centering 

 there. The total quantity of products landed by American vessels 

 during the year 1901 was 151,165,191 pounds,^ worth $4,245,951. 

 These figures as compared with those for the previous year are some- 

 what smaller, there being a decrease of 11,053,730 pounds and a 

 decrease in value of $139,151. The total number of fares landed was 

 6,964, a decrease of 549 as compared with the year 1900. 



The fish landed at Gloucester amounted to 92,173,060 pounds, valued 

 at $2,674,551, a moderate decrease in both quantity and value from 

 the previous year. The decrease is shown in the quantit}" of fresh fish 

 landed, the amount of fish salted being somewhat larger. The fares 

 landed at Gloucester numbered 3,561, of which 2,899 were from 

 grounds off the New England coast and 662 from the Eastern Banks. 

 The total of fish from grounds off the New England coast was 34,835,456 

 pounds, worth $1,050,211. The quantit}^ from the Eastern Banks was 

 much larger, amounting to 57,337,604 pounds, worth $1,624,340. 



