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Gloucester fleet 12,307,218 pouuds, gross, valued -at $312,802.13. The market weight is found by 

 deducting 14 per cent, for the heads. 



HALIBUT PURCHASED BY THE NEW ENGLAND FISH COMPANY, 1873 TO 1878. The fol- 

 lowing statement of the amount of fresh halibut bought, during a series of years, at Gloucester, 

 Mass., by one firm, the Slew England Fish Company, from vessels engaged in the fishery from that 

 place, is of interest in this connection : 



Each year ends March 1. This firm represented seventeen wholesale Boston firms and seven 

 at New York in the year ending March 1, 1878; previously Boston firms alone. Seventy-five per 

 cent, of the above shipments from Gloucester in 1877-'78 were to Boston and 25 per cent, to New 

 York. The shipments in the preceding year were mostly to Boston. In 1878, 2,112,581 pounds of 

 fresh halibut were sold by the New England Company to "cutters" in Gloucester for smoking. 



LARGEST STOCK. The Cape Ann Advertiser of March 24, 1882, contains the following account 

 of the largest halibut trip ever made, so far as financial results are concerned. It says: "The best 

 halibut fare received at this port for several years was landed Wednesday (March 22) by schooner 

 Grace L. Fears, Capt. Nathaniel Greenleaf. Her fare was taken by the Atlantic Halibut Company, 

 and she weighed off 98,825 pounds halibut and 3,000 pounds codfish, 101,825 pouuds in all, stock- 

 ing $6,010.00. Her crew shared $206.30. The cook's share was $253.94. She was gone five weeks 

 and one day, during which time she was frozen up for eight days at Canso. This is the largest 

 stock ever made on a halibut trip, although larger fares have been received several years ago." 



SUCCESSFUL TRIPS IN 1874-'75. We are indebted to Messrs. Clark & Somes, of Gloucester, 

 for the following detailed account of some of the most successful years' work accomplished by 

 schooners employed by them in the Bank halibut fishery: 



SCHOONER F. W. HOMANS. 



SCHOONER LIZZIE K. CLARK. 



