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Feb. 4, 1881, sch. Mystic, Capt. John McKennon, stocked $19,770 shore 

 trawling, the crew sharing $785.12 each. In five months in 1872-3 sch. 

 Eastern Queen, Capt. WiUiam CorHss, stocked $10,250 net in the haddock 

 fishery, her crew sharing $560. The same season sch. Jennie B. Thomas, 

 Capt. Henry Thomas, stocked $8,000 in five and a half months. In 1870-1, 

 sch. Angie S. Friend, Capt. McClain, stocked $7,700 in five months, and 

 sch. Aland Mailer, Capt. Nathaniel Smith, $6,600 in four months. Sch. 

 George H. Hagnet, 32 tons, of Harpswell, Me., stocked $5,500 in five 

 months' shore fishing in 1881. 



MACKEREL FARES. 



Sch. Edward E. Webster, Capt. Solomon Jacobs, stocked $24,146 in the 

 Summer and Fall of 188 1 in the mackerel fishery. In the Summer and Fall 

 of 1880 Capt. Jacobs in the Webster, disposed of 1,300 bbls. mackerel fresh, 

 and 2,600 bbls.' pickled, stocking $19,745.76 gross. The same season sch. 

 Alice, of Swan's Island, Me., took 3,700 bbls., of which 900 bbls. were 

 disposed of fresh, stocking $19,548.75. 



The season of 1881 was a very favorable one for the mackerel catchers. 

 Sch, Lizzie D. Saunders, Capt. Alfred Saunders, of Pigeon Cove, stocked 

 $1,700 in two weeks, the crew sharing $73 ; sch. Ivanhoe made eleven trips 

 for fresh mackerel in seventeen days, being two or three days in port ; sch. 

 Wildfire, Capt. George M. McClain, took 1,309 sea-packed barrels in six 

 weeks; sch. Northern Eagle, Capt. George H. Martin, stocked $1,852.50 in 

 five days ; sch. Isaac Rich, of Swan's Island, Me., took 2,000 bbls. up to the 

 middle of July ; sch. EVank Butler, of New London, Conn., caught 762 bbls. 

 in three weeks; sch. David A. Osier 160 bbls. in forty-seven hours ; sch. 

 Col. J. H. French 500 bbls. in eight days, and sch. Piscataqna 400 bbls. in 

 four days ; sch. Dreadnaught, of Portland, Me., 205 bbls. in twenty-one 

 hours- sch. Fleetwing 210 bbls. at one haul; sch. Madaicasha Maid 225 

 bbls. in one day, and 1,000 bbls. in five weeks; sch. William M. Gaffncy 

 900 bbls. in twenty-one days ; sch. Alice, of Swan's Island, Me., 4,804 bbls. 

 to Oct. 21. Sch. Wildfire stocked $3,200 in two weeks. From April 20 to 

 July 26 sch. S. R. Lane landed 2,400 bbls. ; for the twenty months ending 

 Aug. I, 1881, this vessel stocked $25,000 fishing. In October, 1876, sch. 

 Mary Odell, Capt, McLain, made one haul in Barnstable Bay of more than 

 the crew could take care of; she took 300 bbls., gave away no and lost 

 several hundred through a hole in the seine. The Mary Odell had a crew 

 of 12 men, and up to Sept. 22 stocked $11,000, the crew sharing $436.96; 

 the next week she landed two good fares, and the week following two more, 

 at Boston. In 1877 sch. _/ames A. Stetson took at one haul, ofT Block Island, 

 140 bbls. large fat mackerel, which sold at $20 per bbl, ; Sch, Moses Adams, 



