114 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



The quantity and vame of the receipts of other members of the cod 

 family are as follows: disk, 4,801,840 i)ounds, $()3,508; haddock, 

 (;,100,40() pounds, 844,14!); hake, 8,480,715 pounds, $r)7,12(); pollock, 

 1,258,021 pounds, |8,277, a total of 20,053,582 pounds and $17.3,000. 

 The prin(;inal i)art of the cusk and hake were taken on Cashes Baidj, 

 of the haddock on (leorges Bank, and of the pollock on the inshore 

 grounds. The total receipts of these species in 1894 diOered little from 

 those in 1893; the catch of cusk and pollock was somewhat less, that 

 of hake Avas about the same, while that of haddock was considerably 

 more, the imnease amounting to nearly 3,500,000 pounds. 



Grand, Quereau, Western, and Georges banks contributed the princi- 

 pal part of the fesh halibut landed in Gloucester, while Greenland and 

 Iceland grounds produced practically all of the salt halibut. The 

 receipts of fresh lish were 7,707,787 pounds, valued at $599,538, and of 

 salt Hsh 1,527,480 pounds, worth $91,898. As compared A\rith 1893 

 these figures show^ an increase of 1,118,000 pounds of fresh halibut 

 and a decrease of 301,500 pounds of salt halibut. 



The Gloucester mackerel fishery in 1894 was a great disappointment. 

 The early fishing on the Cape Shore was reported to be the best ever 

 known, and many fishermen were led to believe that the mackerel had 

 returned in their former abundance and that the season would show 

 a very large catch. The subsequent fishing, however, was poor, and 

 the aggregate receipts were very much less than in the previous 

 year. 



The fresh mackerel landed amounted to 80,002 pounds, valued at 

 $0,259, against 48,420 pounds, worth $3,205, iii 1893. The (piantity of 

 salt fish brought in was 28,705 barrels, having a value of $230,849, 

 against 38,335 barrels, valued at $500,082, in the preceding year. The 

 receipts from the difierent grounds in 1894 were as follows: Cape Shore, 

 19,703i barrels, $124,490; Gulf of St. Lawrence, 4,185 barrels, $58,822; 

 Is'ew England shore, 4,750.i barrels, $53,537. As compared with 1893, 

 there was an increased catch on the Cape Shore and in the Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence of 0,081 barrels and a decrease on the New England coast of 

 15,711 barrels. 



A detailed summary of the Gloucester receipts, specified by species 

 and fishing-grounds, is contained in the fi)ll()wing table. In the case of 

 vessels that fished on more than one ground during a single trip, their 

 operations are credited to those grounds on which the bulk of the fish 

 were taken. 



