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crew shared $400.71 each, and the skipper's share and commission amounted 

 to §872.07. In 1870 sch. Caleb Eaton, Capt. John S. Mc()uinn, landed 

 177,300 lbs. fletched halibut, and a quantity of salmon and fins, from a four 

 months' Greenland trip, stocking about $20,000. 



HIGH PRICES FOR HALIBUT. 



In the Fall of 1865 Capt. L. A. Story, now of Magnolia, caught from a dory 

 while engaged in hand-line fishing in Boston Bay, a halibut weighing 194 

 lbs., which was sold to Messrs. Parsons & Co. of Commercial Wharf, Bos- 

 ton, at 28 cents per pound, making the total price $54.32. The largest 

 price ever received for a fare lot was 21 cts. per lb. for white and 14 cts. for 

 gray, for g,ooo lbs. brought in by sch. T. L. Mayo. In January, 18S1, 

 halibut sold at 16 and 12 cts. per lb. for white and gray. 



QUICK BANK AND GEORGES TRIPS. 



Sch. Cunard, Capt. Garrett Galvin, made a salt trip to the Banks in 7^ 

 weeks in 1878; sch. Carrie P. Morton, Capt. Charles A. Keene, in 2^ 

 months in 1873 ; %Q\^.Ben: Perley Poore, Capt. Charles H. Nute, in 14 weeks 

 in 1872 ; sch. Reunion, Capt. Belcher Torrey, a fletched halibut trip to the 

 Banks in 12 weeks in 1868. In 1877 sch. Augusta H. Johnson, Capt. George 

 A. Johnson, made a fresh halibut trip to Western Bank in 13 days, and the 

 same year sch. Edward Grover made three such trips inside of 14 days each 

 and another in 16 days. In 1881 sch. Grace L. Fears, Capt. Nathaniel 

 Greenleaf, made a Grand Bank trip for halibut in 14 days, 6 hours, securing 

 40,000 lbs. halibut, the crew sharing $91.50. The same year sch. G. P. 

 Whitman, Capt. Jerome McDonald, made a Grand Bank trip in 16 days, 

 taking 61,580 lbs. halibut ; on four trips that year the Whitman averaged 

 4 weeks each, the crew averaging $80 each per trip. The Nathaniel Webster 

 also made a Bank halibut trip in 16 days in 188 1 ; the David A. Story, Capt. 

 Joseph Ryan, one in 18 days, stocking $3,021, crew sharing $103.62 ; sch. 

 H. A. Duncan, in 17 days, took 80,000 lbs. codfish. Sch. Franklin Snow, 

 Capt. McDonald, stocked $2,385.47 on an 18 days' trip to Western Bank in 

 1868, and sch. Aphrodite, Capt. McDonald, stocked $4,126 on a 20 days' trip 

 in 1867, the crew sharing $171.51. In i88o %c\\. Alice M. Williams, Capt. 

 Dennis C. Murphy, made a Banquereau trip in 16 days, returning with 38,000 

 lbs. halibut. Sch. Willie Seavy, Capt. Robert White, of Newcastle, N. H., 

 with a crew of eight men, sailed on a Western 15ank trip April 16, 188 1, and 

 arrived at Portland May 18, with a fare of 450 qtls. prime codfish, the result 

 of 21 days' fishing. In 1867 sch. Ilattie S. Clark, Capt. Ililtz, took 90,000 

 lbs. codfish in a week's trip to Georges, and made two trips inside of 21 

 days, landing 172,500 lbs. cod. In November, 18S1, sch. Alice M. Gould, 



