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of Portland, made a La Have Bank trip in 5 days, securing 45,000 lbs. fish, 

 which sold for $1,200, the crew sharing $80 each, or $15 per day.* 



Long Trip. — Sch. Commonwealth arrived home from a Bank halibut trip 

 in April, 1881, having been absent 7^ weeks. She was 16 days on the 

 passage home. 



SHORE FISHING. 



The largest haddock fare ever caught by a Gloucester vessel was landed 

 at Boston in February, 1880, by sch. Martha C, Capt. Charles Martin. She 

 weighed off 72,000 lbs., which sold at $2.50 per 100 lbs., stocking $1,803, 

 the result of two days' fishing on a seven days' trip. The expenses of the 

 trip were $137, and the crew of fourteen men shared $86 each. In 1881 

 the same vessel and skipper had a very successful season ; on a January trip 

 she landed 70,000 lbs. fish, about two-thirds haddock and one-third cod ; on 

 a February trip to La Have Bank she took 63,000 lbs. haddock and 20,250 

 lbs. codfish, stocking $1,742.50, the crew sharing $84.38 ; in March she 

 stocked $1,784 on one trip, the crew sharing $94; in April she struck 

 a good school of fish on the western edge of Western Bank, and in two 

 days' fishing took 80,000 lbs. codfish and 12,000 lbs. haddock, the largest 

 "shore" fare yet reported by a Gloucester vessel. Up to the first of May, 

 1881, the Martha C. landed about 550,000 fresh fish, stocking more than 

 $11,000, the largest stock for the time employed ever made in the shore 

 fishery. 



The largest haddock fare ever landed at Gloucester was 70,380 lbs., taken 

 on Georges in 1878 by sch. E. L. Rome, Capt. Sewall W. Smith, on a five 

 days' trip. 



The largest haddock fare ever taken in one clay's fishing was 51,700 lbs., 

 with 2,500 lbs. codfish, taken in 1877 by sch. Paul Revere, Capt. John 

 Bentley, who stocked $10,036.83 from Oct. 6, 1876, to May n, 1877. On 

 one trip to Georges in 1877 sch. Cora E. Smith, Capt. Sewall Smith, took 

 52,679 lbs. haddock ; in three trips she landed 124,375^3.; during February 

 and March she landed 203,095 lbs., and stocked $4,500. In 1881 sch. Edith 

 M. Pew, Capt. William Corliss, landed 60,000 lbs. haddock on one trip ; in 

 two trips, occupying three weeks, the crew shared $100 each. Sch. David 

 J. Adams, Capt. Richard Murphy, stocked $2,117 on a ten days' trip, the 

 crew sharing $107. In three weeks sch. Charles S. Tappan, Capt. John 

 Bentley, stocked $3,200. Sch. Aberdeen landed 50,000 lbs., sch. Anable 

 50,000 lbs., and sch. Paul Revere 40,000, each on one trip. In 1879 sch. 

 Alice M. Hawkes, of Swampscott, took 49,000 lbs. codfish in one day, and 

 sch. George A. Upton took 40,000 lbs. on one trip. For the year ending 



*In November, 1881, sch. Emma 8. Osier made two pollocking trips inside of 5 days, 

 landing 53,000 lbs. pollock. 



