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BIOLOGICAL ASPECT 



In 1933 the fishing fleet landing fares at Boston and Gloucester, 

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

 the North Atlantic numbered 390 steam, motor, and sail vessels of 

 5 net tons capacity or greater as measured by the United States 

 Customs Service. These made 12,214 trips to the fishing grounds, 

 and were absent from port 52,651 days, or an average of 4.3 days 

 per trip. This is 0.1 of a day less than the average length of a trip 

 during 1932, The catches of edible fish landed at the 3 ports 

 amounted to 270,145,894 pounds when the salted fish had been con- 

 verted to the basis of fresh gutted or round fish as landed. This 

 however 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 thi'ee, at New York City, and at ports in New Jersey. 



Otter trawls on all sizes of vessels accounted for 169,683,377 pounds, 

 or 63 percent of the total landings. Line trawls were next in im- 

 portance, accounting for 62,260,813 pounds, or 23 percent of the total 

 landings. 



The catch taken on Georges Bank and landed at the 3 ports 

 amounted to 90,850,098 pounds, or 34 percent of the total; that on 

 shore grounds, 45,602,905 pounds, or 17 percent; Browns Bank, 

 37,249,263 pounds, or 14 percent; Sable Island Bank, 30,415,492 

 pounds, or 11 percent; and South Channel, 27,617,824 pounds, or 

 10 percent. No other bank accounted for as much as 10,000,000 

 pounds in the landings at the 3 ports. 



