fll] THE ICELANDIC HALIBUT FISHERY. 299 



• This closes the log. Tl.c vessel, l.owever, arrived iu Gloueeste.- Sep- 



r^t etc.""" '■"'" '"' "'■'■"' ""■ '-' ^''"' ""' ""^ '- -^^" 

 The David A Story is 8G.90 tons, .an.I earried the san.e complement 

 of men and dones as the other vessels that went ou the san.e vovn«e 

 Aocor,l,nj; to Uaptam Ityan, she weighed ofl' 139,.3n» ponnds of IliiVhcs 

 and had 50 barrels of flns; her gross Steele was $7,.1(M>, crew slnuvd ,, 

 each man, 8220. .^".uiu, lo 



Captain Dago tells me that the French and English lishern,™ he 

 met w.th at Iceland stated that the weather is e.xcecClinglv rong ™ me 

 b i;ev:;rit?'^ /■-""■« «-.-ounds of that region, so mnjh so that they 

 behexed t wonld beentlrely imi.raeticable to carry on fishing in heats 

 He was also mformed that Ashing operations arc somctin.es interrnp d 



a Jx ve.?r'"' '•■' ""■?" "" "'" <=""'• «"<=" » '-*-- »-' '"-1 



alci jt... sago, It IS said, when the entire fleet at Iceland was kept 



une on the coast completely blockading the harbors and prevent- 

 ".g the vessels tmpnsoned therein from n,oving iu anvdireetiou Sue , 

 oecnrrences are, I believe, somewhat rare. And it ii altogetl" r ,kI t 

 ble that future investigations may result iu the dLscoverl- of halibut 

 grounds on parts of the Icelandic coast where fishing may be prosec nte 

 even when the northern part of the island is beset tvithiccflo,!^ 



I'or t he purposes of comparison it seems desirable that a statement 

 should be given of the halibut cateh at Greenland this year, iu order 



flsherrs riT"? ^'""'-.''O' conclusions regarding th^ value of the 

 lisheric^ at Iceland, and estimate intelligently their importance. 



onh of,MH ^'™" "'f "" "f "'" '^'■«™'^>"1 -^"t"'' ■'»■- approximations 

 onl,_oi lather round unmbers-but are snfficientiv accurate for the 

 resent imrpose. The statements com-erniug the Realities ishe 1 



S..tl,e.ed from Ouptam Byrou Hines and others who were enga<.e.l this 



summer m the halibut fishery at Greenland "'ga^ui this 



The schooner M. H. Perkins, of Gloucester, had a fare of 83 000 



»nnds of flitches caught ofl' Gothaab; and the schooner n«LrtT 



Thesrwer, ^ !?'""' r'"*" '''""" "*"""'« "' A'"^'"- "«' ('"'I'-ib.' 

 Bvron of P„ *™ '^""f' ""™>'^ f™"' (Greenland. The . schooner 

 takT'ort r„ , ?' n"'" ^"°""' """ " *■"« "' ^*'««» I'O"""^ of flitches 

 and fiom June 28 to September 4. The vessels, he tells me were 

 T;rs ::'7 ^^'V"^ "^ «»"-''>. ---"g *« tL pre^ence"^' I ^'^ 



he d d f ^® ^™"'"^' '" """^ ^"••'"f '"'""t "'« «""« time that 



land Lite^H ';/"" *'" '''' '" ""'"■ ■^"'' ™''^^"* --« »"''™' to 

 Ct tl" I ' '""'"■'"■ ""'""" '"terfercuce from the authorities, 



m tld ,M^r"^""''"\ '"f"™"" ""'' ""=■■'"'"«■■ '"^y ™"'" "ot be per- 

 mitted this privilege which they have heretofore always enjoyed. The 



