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sel being obliged to return empty, and the experiment has not been 

 repeated. 



MODEL OF A HKBfiINQ VESSEL. 



The Newfoundland and New Brunswick Herring Fisheries, of 

 comparatively recent origin, while not unattended with hardship 

 and danger, became at once an important auxiliar}* of the Georges 

 and Banks fisheries, and have been pursued unremittingly from the 

 start. During the present season herring have been shipped hence 

 to Sweden, at a good profit, and it is not impossible that this ma}' 

 prove the*initial step toward the resumption of exportation offish to 

 foreign ports, an important industry of the port in the early days of 

 its fishing enterprise. The Spring of 187G has also been marked by 

 a new feature in the Georges fishery, the capture of halibut in im- 

 mense quantities in deep water on the ^dge of the bank, good fares 

 having been secured in a hundred and fifty fathoms of water, a 

 greater depth than was before thought likely to furnish profitable 

 returns. 



As at present conducted the fisheries of Gloucester furnish re- 

 munerative employment for its vessels and mariners for the greater 

 part of the 3 T ear, and it is not probable that any considerable por- 

 tion of its energies need be turned to new fishing fields in the years 

 to come. 



With the close of one fishing season another is inaugurated. On 

 the winding up of the mackerel fishery, and the partial suspension 

 of the Bank fisheries in the Fall, the better class of vessels thus em- 

 ployed commence fitting for the Herring Trade, to which the ener- 



