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at $1,460,336; and at Portland 1,883 trips, aggregating 12,981,508 
pounds, valued at $630,108. The totals for the three ports were 
7,606 trips and 178,280,701 pounds of fresh and salted fish, having a 
value to the fishermen of $8,227,013. 
The foregoing totals include 54 trips—43 at Boston, 1 at Gloucester, 
and 10 at Portland—landed by 18 Canadian fishing vessels, amount- 
ing to 2.588218 pounds of fish, valued at $119,028. Of this quan- 
tity, 1,308,774 pounds, valued at $62,147, were landed at Boston; 
271,580 pounds, valued at $18,606, at Gloucester; and 1,007,864 
pounds, valued at $43,275, at Portland. As compared with the pre- 
vious year, there was an increase of 9 vessels and 15 trips but a 
decrease of 707,929 pounds, with an increase of $12,767. These fish 
were brought ito 7 Bont ports in accordance with an arrange- 
ment with the Canadian Government as an emergency war measure 
that granted reciprocal privileges to fishing vessels, by which Cana- 
dian fishing vessels were permitted to land their fares at American 
ports direct from the fishing grounds. Canadian vessels began to 
utilize this privilege in April, 1918. The arrangement was termi- 
nated by departmental order effective July 15, 1921. 
Compared with the previous year, there was a decrease of 663 trips, 
or 8.01 per cent, in the total number landed at Boston, Gloucester, and 
Portland, and of 18,200,569 pounds, or 9.26 per cent, in the quantity, 
with an increase of $678,630, or 8.99 per cent, in the value of the 
products landed. The only important species showing an increase 
in both quantity and value were halibut, mackerel, and swordfish. 
The catch of halibut increased 1,674,669 pounds, or 79.19 per cent, 
and $354,630, or 91.59 per cent; the mackerel catch increased 1,580,625 
pounds, or 27.66 per cent, and $215,852, or 39.44 per cent; and the 
catch of swordfish increased 1,648,942 pounds, or 186.80 per cent, and 
$281,834, or 132.71 per cent. The yield of cod decreased 3,108,838 
pounds, or 4.75 per cent, but increased in value $54,456, or 2.10 per 
cent; haddock decreased 7,436,708 pounds, or 8.99 per cent, and 
$53,886, or 1.92 per cent; pollock decreased 10,191,066 pounds, or 
54.34 per cent, and $118,387, or 31.11 per cent; cusk decreased 208,459 
pounds, or 10.10 per cent, and $14,099, or 22.67 per cent; and herring 
decreased 3,361,901 pounds, or 32.45 per cent, and $73,487, or 30.64 
per cent. The output of hake increased 381,880 pounds, or 8.80 per 
cent, but decreased in value $27,177, or 15.01 per cent. The New- 
foundland herring fishery had a decline of 404,753 pounds, or 11.55 
per cent, and $79,626, or 41.95 per cent. There were no tilefish 
landed at Boston during the year. In the various other species com- 
bined there was an increase of $53,897 pounds, or 20.66 per cent, and 
of $60,368, or 37.85 per cent. 
The fishery products landed at Boston, Gloucester, and Portland 
by fishing vessels each year are taken principally from fishing 
grounds lying off the coast of the United States. In the calendar 
year 1920, 78.88 per cent of the quantity and 79 per cent of the value 
of the catch landed by American and Canadian fishing vessels were 
taken from these grounds; 3.35 per cent of the quantity and 4.63 per 
cent of the value, consisting largely of herring, from off the coast of 
Newfoundland; and 17.75 per cent of the quantity and 16.36 per cent 
of the value from fishing grounds off the Canadian Provinces. New- 
foundland herring constituted 1.73 per cent of the quantity and 1.53 
