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U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 



NEWFOUNDLAND, FRANCE, AND PORTUGAL 



The haddock catches by these countries in North American waters 

 api)ear in their fishery statistics only very recently. Their small 

 size (a combined catch of about 2 per cent of Uie North American 

 lotal) makes their omission of little importance. 



UNITED STATES 



The statistics of the United States haddock catches were taken 

 from the annual reports of the Commissioner of Fisheries. Tliey 

 fall into two divisions — (1) annual reports ^n the vessel fisheries of 

 Boston and Gloucester since 1891, and (2) complete surveys of 

 the fisheries of the New England States in 1880, 188T, 1888,^1889, 

 1902, 1905, 1908, 1919, and 1924. For the latter years the amounts 

 of the New England shore catch and of the vessel catch landed 

 at other ports than Boston and Gloucester were determined. These 

 were considered to have varied evenly between the known catches, 

 and the resulting estimated annual catches were added to those of 

 Boston and Gloucester, giving a figure for the total New England 

 catch each year since 1887. The Boston and Gloucester catches 

 for 1890 and 1892 are averages of those for the adjacent years. 



During the years 1922 to 1927 there was a rapid increase in the 

 haddock landings at New York, and annual statistics of the land- 

 ings in that city were furnished by J. H. INIatthews, of the Atlantic 

 Coast Fisheries Co. As practically all the haddock of New York 

 and New Jersey are landed at New York City, these figures were 

 taken as totals for those States. The catches of New York and 

 New Jersej^ for earlier years were taken from surveys made in 

 the years 1889, 1890, 189i, 1892, 1897, 1S98, 1901, 1904,' 1915, 1917, 

 1921. and 1926, and the annual catches were estimated by interpola- 

 tion. The annual catches of the States of New York and New 

 Jersey were then added to the New England catches to give the 

 total United States catches. Tliese appear in Table 1. 



Table 1. — United States catches, shoivn in ijouiuiti, of fresh (juHid hmUlock 



• New York and New Jersey shore and vessel fisheries. 



■' Statistics furnished by J. 11. Matthews, of the Atlantic Coast Fisheries Co. 



•"Estimated total when fresh" taken from the Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States, 

 by O. B. Ooode et al. 



* Vessel eatrti in E.ssex and Suffolk Counties. 

 ' Estimated, as explained in text. 



