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BUREAU OF FISHERIES 



Table (i.- 



-Gcogrnpliiciil distribution of the catch of the Boston and Gloucester 

 vessels fisheries, in pounds, of fresh gutted haddock 



Fishing ground 



La Have Bank 



Western Bank 



Quereau Bank 



Cape Shore 



Other grounds E. of 66° W. longitude . 



Total E. of 66° W. longitude 



Browns Bank _ 



( Jeorges Bank 



rashes Bank 



Middle Bank 



Jeffreys Ledge 



South Channel 



Nantucket Shoal 



Off Highland Light 



Off Chatham 



Other grounds W. of 66° W. lcngitudc_ 



Total W. of 66° W. longitude. 

 Grand total 



' Canso Bank only. 



2 Including, in order of importance, Grand, St. Peters, Misaine, and St. Anns Banks, Cape North, and 

 the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 

 ^ Principally (90 per cent) on inshore grounds. 



Considering first only these large divisions, we see that the catch 

 from the nearer grounds doubled and that from the more distant 

 grounds more than doubled between the two periods. The latter 

 increased from 8.9 to 11.8 per cent of the total, a change hardly 

 great enough to be regarded as showing a signiticant shift of the 

 fishery farther afield. 



The catches on individual grounds 'changed greatl}' in relative 

 size. Actual decrea.ses occurred in the catches on La Have Bank, 

 Cape Shore, Cashes Bank, Jeffreys Ledge, off Highland Light, and 

 Middle Bank. On all of these the line fishery preponderates. The 

 tM'o former are close to the coast of Nova Scotia just east of Cape 

 Sable; the rest are in the southwestern part of the Gulf of Maine, 

 (^n Georges Bank, on which the line catches remained greater than 

 the otter-trawl catches, the catch increased, but the percentage of 

 the total catch decreased from 83 to 24 per cent. The percentage of 

 the total catch increased on Quereau Bank, Browns Bank, AVustern 

 Bank, in the South Channel, on Nantucket Shoals, and off Chatham. 

 The haddock catches are made chiefly with otter traAvls on all these 

 grounds except Quereau and Browns Banks where they are made 

 entirely with lines. 



I'liiis. greatly increa.sed haddock catches were made in the later 

 period on those grounds where the otter-traAvl fishery predominated. 

 Of the grounds where tliere Avas no otter trawling the nearer showed 

 greatly decreased catches and Browns Bank sliowed greatly in- 

 creased catches, while the total line catch east of 6G° remained about 

 the same. Although the total haddock catch does not show a general 

 decrease on the neaiei' grounds accom]")anied by increases farther 



