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boats drift along with the tide, the distance between them grad- 
ually narrowing as they haul. | 
Haddock are often found so plenty on George’s that it is not 
necessary to set more line at a time, even were it easier to do 
so, since a single tub of trawl will often bring up enough fish to 
fill a dory. Several sets of this kind can be made in a day, 
when the weather is favorable. 
Some of the Maine and Swampscott vessels send out only one 
man in adory ; this usage is called “ fishing single dories,” and 
is, of course, practicable only in comparative moderate weather. 
THE MANNER OF CARING FOR THE FISH. 
As the fish are brought alongside they are pitched into the 
pens already described. As soon as the dories are discharged 
and taken on deck, and the vessel is under way, the men begin 
to dress the fish. The process of dressing differs entirely from 
that of dressing cod ; there are no dressing-tables or dressing- 
tubs. The men distribute themselves among the pens. Four or 
five men are engaged in ripping the fish, this operation being 
performed by seizing the fish by the eyes or some part of the 
head with the left hand, and ripping them downward from the 
throat. The remainder of the crew occupy themselves in taking 
out the liver and roes, which are saved in barrels separately, and 
in removing the viscera. The fish are washed by pouring buck- 
ets of water over them as they le in the pens on the deck, and 
are packed away in the hold or left on deck, unless, on account 
of distance from the land or mildness of the weather, it is nec- 
essary to icethem, in which case two or three men go into the 
hold and stow the fish away between layers of ice. The fish are 
iced with greater or less care according to the length of time ex- 
pected to elapse before the arrival of the schooner at the mar- 
ket. All the vessels going to Le Have, George's, and Cape Ne- 
gro carry from five to six tons of ice each trip. 
PRODUCTIVENESS OF THE FISHERY. 
The vessels of the Gloucester fleet in the winter of 1880-81, 
obtained on an average 350,000 pounds of haddock, valued at 
