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KEPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES. 



FISH LANDED AT BOSTON AND GLOUCESTER, 



Statistics of the vessel fisheries of Boston and Gloucester, Mass., 

 were collected by the local agents there, and the returns have been 

 published as monthly and annual bulletins and distributed to the 

 trade in various parts of the country, giving by months and by fish- 

 ing grounds the quantity and value of the fishery products landed 

 at those ports by American fishing vessels during the calendar year. 

 The fleet includes not only vessels owned at Boston and Gloucester, 

 but also a considerable number from other ports on the New England 

 coast, especially in Massachusetts and Maine. 



In 1910 the number of trips landed at Boston was 4,548, aggre- 

 gating 102,090,154 pounds of fish, valued at $2,711,521, and at 

 Gloucester 2,011 trips were landed, aggregating 79,G44,118 pounds, 

 valued at $2,121,820 ; a total of 6,559 trips, and of 181,734,272 pounds 

 of fish, having a value to the fishermen of $4,833,341. Compared 

 with the previous year there was an increase of 253 trips, and of 

 8,632,048 pounds in the quantity and $216,897 in the value of fish 

 landed. There was a decrease in the quantity of cod, halibut, and 

 mackerel landed, but an increase in that of cusk, haddock, hake, pol- 

 lock, and herring. Owing to the large demand for cod and the de- 

 crease in the catch by the American fleet, the dealers at Gloucester 

 imported from Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, chiefly the former, 

 1,964,008 pounds of salted fish, valued at $76,710, in November and 

 December, 1910, and 2,080,736 pounds, valued at $85,225, in the early 

 part of 1911 ; a total for the season of 4,044,804 pounds, valued at 

 $161,941. This includes 175,811 pounds of cod, valued at $7,472, and 

 4,170 pounds of halibut, valued at $334 in 1910, and 153,433 pounds 

 of cod, valued at $6,521 in 1911, landed by American fishing vessels 

 free of duty. The remainder was landed by American and British 

 vessels and was dutiable. These products, which were not included 

 in the bulletins for the year, are given by species in the following 

 table : 



The decrease in the catch of halibut landed at Boston and Glouces- 

 ter may be accounted for by the fact that large quantities of this 



