THE LOBSTER FISHERY. 775 



the year, setting pots in Massachusetts Bay and carrying to Salem. It is valued at $500, and 

 has a crew of four men. 



Summation of the lobster fisheries in Salem district in 1880. 



Number of fishermen 46 



Number of smacks above 5 tons measurement : 1 



Value of same $500 



Number of boats... 19 



Value of same $380 



Number of lobster pots 1,300 



Value of same ". $1,300 



Total amount of capital invested in the fishery $2,180 



Number of barrels of bait used 840 



Value of same $420 



Number of pounds of lobsters taken and disposed of, in pounds 422, 250 



Value of same to the fishermen $15,482 



MARBLEHEAD DISTRICT. 



This district includes the fishing ports of Marblehead, Swampscott, Lynn, and Nahant. The 

 Marblehead lobstermen set their pots during the entire year, the Nahant lobstermen during the 

 fall, winter, and spring, and the Swampscott lobstermen during only a small portion of the year. 

 The half-cylinder lath pots are used by most fishermen. The boats employed are mainly dories, 

 the men going singly. The depths of water fished in range from 1 to 30 fathoms, according to the 

 season. At Nahaut each man handles about eighty pots, setting them attached in trawls. Two 

 lobster-fishing schooners of more than 5 tons measurement are owned in this district. The Zep- 

 pie, of Marblehead, measuring 11.78 tons, valued at $700, and with a crew of five men, fishes 

 on the coast of Maine and Massachusetts, and carries her catch to Marblehead. The Lizzie 

 Phillips, of Nahant, 14.12 tons measurement, valued at $1,000, and with a crew of four men, fishes 

 in Boston Bay, and sells to Boston. 



The catch by Nahant and Marblehead fishermen is sold principally to the Boston markets ; 

 that by Lynn and Swampscott fishermen is mostly consumed at home. Very few lobsters are 

 taken at Swampscott. The lobster fishery is the only one now carried on from Nahant. The 

 BarnstabK- Patriot of February 19, 1861, says: "Nahant fishermen have given up winter 

 codfishing and gone into the lobster fishery, which is a new business for this season of the year. 

 The fleet consists of some six vessels, manned by thirty men, or thereabouts." 



Summation of the lobster fisheries in Marblehead district in 1880. 



Number of fishermen 62 



Number of smacks above 5 tons measurement 2 



Value of same $1,700 



Number of boats 24 



Value of same $430 



Number of lobster pots 2,260 



Value of same $2,260 



Total amount of capital invested in the fishery $4,390 



Number of barrels of bait usi*d 650 



Value of same $325 



Quantity of lobsters taken and disposed of, in pounds 325,500 



Value of same to the fishermen $11,935 



BOSTON DISTRICT. 



In this important district the principal lobster-fishing stations are Winthrop, Long Island, 

 Hull, Cohasset, and Brewster's. During the warmer months of the year this fishery is mainly 

 carried on in Boston Harbor and along shore, but in cold weather the men go farther out iu 



