REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. CXLIX 



brought about by a desire on the part of the owuers of Gloucester 

 vessels to keep them more directly under their own supervision, to 

 make Gloucester more important as a shipping point for fresh fish, and 

 to increase the general volume of trade at that point. This arrange- 

 ment, diverting a portion of the catch of fresh fish from Boston, where 

 it had previously been landed, has created a spirit of rivalry between 

 the fishery interests of the two places. 



The following tables show the receipts from each ground: 



Summary by fishing-grounds of certain fishery products landed at Gloucester, Mass., in 

 1897 by American fishing vessels. 



