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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. William Corliss, 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. Maud Midler, 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 1881 in the mackerel fishery. In the Summer and Fall 

 of 1880 Capt. Jacobs in the Webster, dispgsed 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. Frank 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. Piscataqua 400 bbls. in 

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

 hours; sch. Flcetwing 210 bbls. at one haul; sch. Madawaska Maid 225 

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

 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. 1, 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. James A. Stetson took at one haul, off Block Island, 

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



