FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES, 1933 



95 



Days' absence from port of fishing vessels landing fish at Boston and Gloucester, 

 Mass., and Portland, Maine, 1932 — Continued 



Note.— The roman numerals appearing in the stubs of the above tables refer to the numbers given 

 these areas by the North .\merican Council on Fishery Investigations. 



MACKEREL FISHERY OF THE ATLANTIC COAST 



That part of the 1932 mackerel catch taken by purse seines and drift 

 gill nets and landed at the principal Atlantic receiving ports amounted 

 to 46,770,749 pounds, an increase of 28 percent over the corresponding 

 statistics for the previous year. The increase was caused by the ex- 

 traordinarily large catches of young mackerel under 1 pound in w^eight, 

 these blinks and tinkers accounting for more than 53 percent of the 

 total. 



Statistics on the catch by the Atlantic mackerel fleet are obtained 

 by combining the figures of mackerel landed at Boston and Gloucester, 

 Mass., and Portland, Maine, with those obtained by agents w4io in 



