116 U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIBS 
BIOLOGICAL ASPECT 
In 1935 the fishing fleet landing fares at Boston and Gloucester, 
Mass., and Por tland, Maine, and operating on the fishing banks of 
the North Atlantic, numbered 382 steam, motor, and sail vessels of 
5-net-ton capacity or greater as measured by the United States Cus- 
toms Service. ‘These vessels made 12,372 trips to the fishing grounds, 
and were absent from port 53,264 days, or an average of 4.3 days per 
trip. The catch of edible fish landed at the three ports amounted to 
376,277,640 pounds when the salted fish had been converted to the 
basis of fresh gutted or round fish as usually landed. This, however, 
does not represent the entire catch of edible fish of these vessels, for 
landings were also made at ports in New England other than these 
three, at New York City, and at more southern ports In connection 
with the southern winter trawl and mackerel fisheries. 
Otter trawls on all sizes of vessels accounted for 254,906,714 pounds, 
or 68 percent of the total landings. Line trawls were next in impor- 
tance, accounting for 53,541, 051 pounds, or 14 percent of the total 
landings. 
The catch taken on Sable Island Bank and landed at the three ports 
amounted to 102,146,279 pounds, or 27 percent of the total; that on 
Georges Bank, 84,473,973 pounds, or 22 percent; shore grounds, 
63,786,339 pounds, or 17 percent; Browns Bank, 32,557,300 pounds, 
or 9 percent; South Channel, 20,055,730 pounds, or 5 percent; and 
Quereau Bank, 17,082,783 pounds, or 5 percent. No other bank 
accounted for as much as 10,000,000 pounds in the landings at the 
three ports. 
