ELEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 47 
THE APPARATUS AND METHODS OF THE FISHERY. 
Dories.—The larger haddock catchers carry six dories, the 
smaller, four or five.* Most of the dories used in this fishery 
are deeper and wider than those in any other fishery, and are 
built specially for the purpose. The ordinary dory is also fre- 
quently in use. These dories are fourteen feet inlength. When 
on deck they are nested in the ordinary manner, two or three on 
a side, and are stowed nearly amidships on each side of the booby 
hatch, not nested close to the rail, as is the practice upon other 
vessels carrying dories. 
A haddock dory ready to leave the vessel, in order to set its 
trawl, is provided with the following articles in addition to the 
trawl lines: Trawl-roller, two pairs woolen nippers, dory knife, 
gob stick, gaff, bailing-scoop, tholepins, two pairs 9-ft. ash oars, 
buoys, buoy lines, anchors, and black balls. 
Trawls.—The haddock trawls have the ground line of tarred 
cotton, of fourteen to eighteen pounds weight to the dozen. 
Hemp is occasionally used, especially by the Maine vessels and 
by some of the Irish vessels from Boston. The gangings are 
of white or tarred cotton, in weight about four to six pounds to 
the dozen. They are about two feet in length, and are fastened 
to the ground line at intervals of three anda half feet. The 
manner of fastening the gangings to the ground line is very 
different from that employed upon the halibut trawls.t The 
hooks are No. 15 or 16, center draft, and eyed.{ The hooks are 
fastened to the gangings in the same manner as on the cod 
trawls. The haddock trawls are coiled in tubs, these being sim- 
ilar to those employed in the George’s fishery. A flour-barrel, 
sawed off above the lower quarter hoops, is used for a tub. 
Each tub of haddock trawl contains five hundred hooks, or about 
two hundred and ninety-two fathoms of ground line. Each dory 
* The haddock catchers of Maine,and some of the ports in Massachusetts, fishing with 
** single dories,”’ carry one for each man besides the skipper and cook. These boats are thir- 
teen feet long, and managed by a single fisherman. 
+ They are fastened either by tucking and hitching. or bya simple hitch around the 
ground line. 
+ The Irish fishermen of Boston sometimes use a galvanized hook of the same size with- 
out an eye. 
