82 FISHERMEN'S MEMORIAL AND RECORD BOOK. 



i 



Big Trips in the Bank, Ge'orges, Mackerel and 

 Haddock Fisheries, 



As a matter of interest and for general reference, we publish be- 

 low some of the largest stocks made in the Grand Bank, Georges, 

 Mackerel and Haddock fisheries, during the past ten years. These 

 stocks, however, are exceptional, and not the rule. Fifteen hundred 

 to two thousand dollars is considered a very good amount for a fresh 

 halibut Bank trip, although stocks from two to three thousand dol- 

 lars are not uncommon. Stocks from three to four thousand dollars 

 are rare, and in but very few instances has a vessel exceeded $4,000. 

 One vessel, only, has stocked rising $5,000. 



A Grand Banker averages about nine trips a year, and the trips 

 vary from $8,000 to $17,000 ; $12,000 being about the average. It is 

 not always the vessel which gets the largest number of halibut that 

 makes the biggest stock. It all depends upon hitting the market right. 

 The highest stocks realized have been on fares of from forty to fifty 

 thousand pounds, while it is frequently the case that fares of from 

 seventy-five to one hundred thousand, arriving when the market is a 

 little glutted, realize less than $2,000 stock. 



The Grand Bank halibut fishery is of comparatively recent date. 

 The first vessel from this port that went there for halibut, was the 

 Hattie M. Lyons, Capt. 'George W. Miner, owned by Messrs. D. C. & 

 H. Babson. She left here in May, 1865, and made her trip in four 



