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{Trachynotus). The prices of fresh fish in a market as large as this one, 

 of course, vary considerably. The following are the average prices: 

 Codfish, 5 to G cents; flounders, 8 cents; common mackerel {Scomber 

 scomhrus), 8 to 10 cents ; Spanish maekerel ( Cyhium maculatum and regale, 

 Scomber macnlatus and rcfjalis), which is esteemed as highly as salmon, 

 25 to 30 cents per j)onnd. The value of all the fish annually sold in Ful- 

 ton Market is about $2,000,000. Of these, Mr. Blackford sells about one- 

 tenth, or $200,000 worth. 



In Boston the fish-trade is carried on in a little different manner from 

 New York. Besides a large common market, where all kinds of fresh, 

 salt, and smoked fish are sold, there are special markets for fresh fish, 

 where the fish are received from the fishing- schooners and placed on ice, 

 and where the vessels that are going out are furnished with bait and 

 ice. It must be mentioned here that all the fishing-schooners which 

 are sent out from Boston and supply the Boston markets with fish are 

 always furnished with a considerable quantity of ice for keeping the fish 

 fresh. These vessels usually make one trij^ every two weeks, and gen- 

 erally return to Boston with a full cargo of fish. Their fishing imple- 

 ments consist of lines, with which they chiefly catch codfish and floun- 

 ders, but also small swordfish, which are quite common on the coast be- 

 tween Cape Cod and Cape Ann, where the Boston fishermen have their 

 station. The jirices of fish in Boston are generally a little lower tlian in 

 New York. 



In Gloucester, the most important fishing-station in America, which 

 possesses more than 500 well -furnished and beautiful fishing-schooners, 

 there is no fish market like in New York and Boston, but a large number 

 of very considerable fish-establishments, which supply a great portion 

 of the United States and Canada with fresh fish, and more especially 

 with salt herring, mackerel, dried codfish, and smoked hahbut. As the 

 fish-trade of Gloucester is very extensive, a more detailed description 

 will not be out of place. 



Gloucester, situated on Cape Ann, in the State of Massachusetts, a 

 few miles from Boston, was founded by Eiiglishmen about two hundred 

 years ago, and, after many ups and downs, it has, from an inconsider- 

 able fishing-village, by energy and pluck, risen to be an important city, 

 with a population of about 17,000, who live almost exclusively by the 

 fisheries, which, as I mentioned before, emijloy about 500 schooners with 

 an aggregate tonnage of 30,000, besides a large number of boats engaged 

 in coast-fishing. The result of these fisheries for a single year (1875) are, 

 according to a voliune published in 187G entitled "The Fislieries of 

 Gloucester," as foUows : 



Value. 



Bank (Newfoundland). cod 177, 473 quintals $998, 628 



George's cod 185, 758 quintals 1, 021, 669 



George's hahbut 2, 402, 304 pounds 172, 365 



Bank halibut ... 7, 248, 423 pounds 507, 389 



