298 U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
VESSEL FISHERIES AT PRINCIPAL NEW ENGLAND PORTS 
Due to the importance of the ports of Boston and Gloucester, 
Mass., and Portland, Maine, as landing points for fishery products, 
detailed monthly statistics are collected for these landings which 
are published in the following section: 
ECONOMIC ASPECT 
The landings of fishery products at the three principal New England 
ports (Boston and Gloucester, Mass., and Portland, Maine) by vessels 
of 5 net tons capacity or more during 1937, amounted to 387,960,010 
pounds as landed, valued at $9,789,879. This is a decrease of 6 per- 
cent in the quantity of the catch as compared with 1936, and also a 
decrease of 12 percent in the value of the catch. The landings at 
Boston accounted for 324,599,527 pounds valued at $8,467,985, or 
84 percent of the total volume; the landings at Gloucester amounted 
to 46,238,971 pounds valued at $918,008, or 12 percent of the total; 
and the landings at Portland amounted to 17,121,512 pounds, valued 
at $403,886, or 4 percent of the total. 
Among the landings of fresh fish, haddock far outranked other 
species in volume landed. Landings of all sizes of haddock in 1937 
amounted to 137,175,269 pounds, or 35 percent of the total fresh fish. 
