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a “leg.” The mesh is twice as large as they make it. For in- 
stance, when it is one inch between knots it is a two-inch mesh. 
I am aware that some inland fishermen measure differently, but 
an enquiry at any house that sells nets will show that they are 
wrong. 
The PresipENT.—I would recommend that the officers of this 
association send a communication to either the Legislature or 
the Governor, asking for the appointment of a game constable 
expressly for this city. I don’t see that we can do more. I no- 
tice that Mrs. Amelia Lewis, the editor of that popular paper, 
Food and Health, is with us, and as she has promised to read a 
paper on the carp and its treatment from a culinary point of 
view, we will be pleased to listen to it. 
The PrestpEnT.—Mrs. Lewis is the first lady who has honored 
us with a paper, and there are some things which she has said 
that I shall remember, especially that carp should never be 
boiled, never fried nor cooked in lard. 
The SecreTAryY then read the following : 
THE WINTER HADDOCK FISHERY OF 
NEW ENGLAND. 
BY G. BROWN GOODE AND CAPT. J. W. COLLINS. 
The winter fishery for the capture of the haddock, A@elano- 
grammus aeglefinus, is carried on chiefly from the ports of Glou- 
cester and Portland, though participated in to some extent by 
vessels from Portsmouth, Swampscott, and Boston. Although 
haddock are caught in large quantities, from spring to fall, by 
numerous vessels and boats employed in the inshore fisheries 
between Portland and Philadelphia, the winter haddock fishery 
is peculiar in its methods. It is of comparatively recent origin, 
dating back about thirty years. Weare told that in 1850 im- 
mense quantities of haddock were caught on the trawls in 
Massachusetts Bay, and that a petition was prepared by the 
Swampscott fishermen asking for a law which should prohibit 
