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HISTORY AND METHODS OF THE FISHERIES. 



nneut iliottiixj tlm number of vessels and their catch of salt mackerel, $~c. Continued. 



* Vessels packed out away from home. t Vessels mostly packed out away from home. 



Statement showing the number of vessels and their catch of salt mackerel in the Bay of Saint Laioeiice, tlie Few England shore, 



and the Southern mackertl fisheries for the season of 1880. 

 [Compiled from annual report of Boston Fish Bureau for 1P80.] 



The New England shore licet mentioned above arc only the vessels that fish nowhere else; to wliii-h maybe added I he Southern and North 

 leete after they returned from their unsuccessful cruise in those waters, making the total shore fleet three hundred and forty-two sail. 

 [In the annual report for 1881 some corrections are made in the returns of 1880: Shore fleet, 201 ; Southern fleet, 92 ; total fleet, 327 ; total 



i I 77S 1 



Bay fleets 

 [In 

 crews, 4,778.] 



