58 PACIFIC COD FISHERIES. 
of gurry has been reduced to a comparatively small heap of bones 
absolutely cleaned of all flesh. 
SHORE-STATION METHODS. 
The methods followed by the shore stations are somewhat different 
from those on board the vessels. 
The shore fishermen usually arise between 3 and 4 a. m. in summer 
and between 4 and 5 a. m. in winter. After getting breakfast the 
men row out to the near-by banks in their dories. From 9 to 12 they 
come straggling in with varying numbers of cod, the latter depend- 
ing somewhat upon luck, but mainly upon the knowledge on the 
part of the fisherman of the “ good spots” and the persistency with 
which he fished. The dories in use will hold from 180 to 220 fish, 
the number depending upon their size. A dory with the greater 
number could be handled only in calm or fairly calm weather, as it 
would be so low in the water as to ship a sea at every lurch in rough 
weather. 
Upon reaching the station the fish are pewed by the fishermen from 
the dory into a box located on the side of the wharf and midway be- 
tween the top and low water. From here the fish are pewed onto the 
dress-house floor (the dress house is either at the end of the wharf 
or midway of the same), the agent or his representative keeping the 
tally as the fish are thrown upon the floor. 
In the bunk house is hung a board ruled so as to show the name 
of each fisherman and his catch from day to day, and as soon as all 
the boats are in the agent fills out on this board the catch of each man 
for that day, thus giving the men an opportunity to know just how 
they stand and to have any corrections made should they be necessary. 
Dinner is at 12 o’clock, and shortly after the fishermen gather at 
the dress house and, dividing themselves into as many dress gangs 
as their numbers will permit, begin the work of dressing. No special 
dress gangs are employed at the stations, this work being considered 
a part of the fisherman’s regular work. 
That portion of the dress gang in the dress house is generally com- 
posed of a “throater,” a “header,” a “splitter,” a “black skinner,” 
a man to go over the fish and remove adhering backbones, clots of 
blood, portions of black skin, etc., left by those who had previously 
handled it, and a man to pew the fish into the throater’s box. The 
duties of these men are about the same as on the vessels. Each dress 
gang is equipped with a box set up on legs and with a sloping grid- 
iron bottom, so that water, slime, etc., will pass out through the 
bottom. In this box the fish are placed with their heads toward the 
throater. Alongside and attached to this box is a table. The header 
stands at the end next to the box, on the opposite side from the throater 
