252 TJ. S. BUKEAU OF EISHEKIES 



BIOLOGICAL ASPECT 



In 1936 the fishing fleet landing fares at Boston and Gloucester, 

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

 the North Atlantic, numbered 392 steam, motor, and sail vessels of 

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

 toms Service. These vessels were absent from port 55,309 days. The 

 catch of edible fish landed at the three ports amounted to 416,384,118 

 pounds when the salted fish had been converted to the basis of fresh 

 gutted or round fish as usually landed. This, however, does not repre- 

 sent 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 309,551,194 pounds, 

 or 74 percent of the total landings. Line trawls were next in impor- 

 tance, accounting for 49,714,305 pounds, or 12 percent of the total 

 landings. 



The catch taken off New England and landed at the three ports 

 amounted to 264,212,798 pounds, or 64 percent of the total; that off 

 Nova Scotia 146,939,445 pounds, or 35 percent; off the east coast of 

 Newfoundland 4,086,552 pounds, or 1 percent; and that off the Middle 

 Atlantic States 1,145,323 pounds, or less than one-half of 1 percent. 



