312 U. S. BURPAU 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. These landings are included in the catch by 
States appearing elsewhere in_ this document, but are presented 
here for their value in detailed form. 
ECONOMIC ASPECT 
The landings of fishery products at the three principal New England 
ports (Boston, Gloucester, and Portland), by vessels of 5 net tons 
capacity or more, during 1938, amounted to 400,611,381 pounds as 
landed, valued at $8,956,523. This is an increase ‘of 3 percent in the 
quantity of the catch as compared with 1937, but a decrease of 9 
percent in the value of the catch. Of the total landings, 99 percent 
consisted of fresh fish and 1 percent salted fish. The landings at 
Boston accounted for 318,745,176 pounds, valued at $7,623,465, or 
79 percent of the total volume; the landings at Gloucester amounted to 
63,009,136 pounds, valued at $971,986, or 16 percent of the total; 
and the landings at Portland amounted to 18,857,069 pounds, valued 
at $361,072, or 5 percent of the total. 
Among the landings of fresh fish, haddock far outranked other 
species in volume landed, the landings of all sizes in 1938 amounting 
to 134,876,845 pounds, or 34 percent of the total fresh fish. 
