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U.S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 



Landings by fishing vessels at principal New England ports, 1932 — Continued 

 SUMMARY: By ports— Continued 



' The items under "Other, fresh" include albacore, 927 pounds, value $111; alewives, 385,674 pounds, 

 <?alue $2,017; butterfish, 145,149 pounds, value $9,058; croaker, 2,400 pounds, value $72; cunner (perch), 

 335 pounds, value $6; eels, 25 pounds, value $1; rosefish, 57,230 pounds, value $521; salmon, 18 pounds, value 

 $3; seup, 6,900 pounds, value $207; sea bass, 170 pounds, value $5; shad, 7,351 pounds, value $213; sharks, 

 44,428 pounds, value $486; skates, 14,070 pounds, value $131; smelt, 3,600 pounds, value $169; sturgeon, 

 6,123 pounds, value $436; tuna or "horse mackerel", 3,244 pounds, value $137; whiting, 143,445 pounds, 

 value $4,242; woifflsh, 1,583,094 pounds, value $27,329; lobsters, 162 pounds, value $41; scallops, 2,307 pounds, 

 value $576; squid, 100 pounds, value $4; livers, 280,480 pounds, value $5,605; and spawn, 60,477 pounds, 

 value $3,253. 



BIOLOGICAL ASPECT 



In 1932 the fishing fleet landing fares at Boston and Gloucester, 

 Mass., and Portland, Maine, and operating on the fishing banks of 

 the North Atlantic from Flemish Cap to New York, numbered 372 

 steam, motor, and sail vessels of over 5 net tons as measured by the 

 United States Customs Service. These made 11,112 trips to the 

 fishing grounds, and were absent from port 48,729 days, or an average 

 of about 4.4 days per trip. This is 0.4 of a day less than the average 

 length of a trip during 1931. Their catches of edible fish landed at 

 the three ports amounted to 253,907,536 pounds when the salted fish 

 had been converted to the basis of fresh gutted or round fish as landed. 

 This does not represent the entire catch of edible fish of these vessels, 

 for small quantities estimated at not more than 5 percent of their total 

 catch were landed at ports in New England other than these three, 

 at New York City, and at ports in New Jersey. 



Otter trawls on all sizes of vessels accounted for 142,196,578 pounds, 

 or 56 percent of the total catch. Line trawls were next in importance, 

 accounting for 57,267,269 pounds, or 23 percent of the total catch 

 landed at the three ports in 1932. 



The catch taken on Georges Bank was considerably larger than that 

 taken on any other fishing ground and landed at the three ports in 

 1932. It amounted to 93',^S96,295 pounds, or 37 percent of the total 

 catch. 



The landings from South Channel amounted to 36,265,135 pounds, 

 or 14 percent of the total and from Browns Bank, 25,712,196 pounds, 

 or 10 percent. 



