54 FISH—CULTURAL ASSOCIATION. 
$6,000. The schooner Martha C. obtained about 600,090 pounds, 
stocking $11,500. The Edith M. Pew obtained 550,000 pounds, 
stocking about $11,000. 
Captain S. J. Martin, of Gloucester, Mass., writes under date 
of February r2th, 1882, that the schooner Martha C. arrived yes- 
terday with go,0oo pounds of haddock; she was gone eight 
days. Schooner Josie M. Calderwood, 35,000 pounds, gone sev- 
en days. Schooner H. A. Duncan, 80,0co pounds, gone seven 
days. Four vessels left Gloucester on Saturday and were back 
on Wednesday, each with 40,000 pounds haddock, having fished 
one day anda half. That is good and quick work. { 
‘‘ Schooner Mystic, Captain John McKennon, has stocked the 
year ending February 8th, 1882, $21,003. He claims high line 
of the shore haddocking fleet, and so far as we know this is the 
largest stock ever reported in this fishery. The crew shared 
$780.06. In 1880 he stocked $17,765, the crew sharing $765.”— 
Cape Ann Advertiser, February toth, 1882. 
* !he new schooner Dido, recently built at“Essex, tor an 
George Steel, of this city, has been engaged in the haddock fish- 
ery just one month to-day, during which time she has made 
three trips,. stocking $32,750. Om her last trip’ she stacker 
$1,400. .Her-crew shared for thesmonth $138 each. he Dido 
is commanded by Captain William M. Wells. Schooner Richard 
Seester, Captain Ozro B. Fitch,ona recent haddock trip stocked 
$1,000.” —Cape Ann Advertiser, February toth, 1882. 
THE LARGEST HADDOCK FARE EVER LANDED. 
‘“The schooner Martha C., of this port, Captain Charles Mar- 
tin, arrived at Boston on Friday from a George’s haddock trip, 
stocking $1,943, the crew sharing $91, the result of two and a 
half days’ fishing. Absent ten days. This is the largest catch 
and best stock ever reported in the haddock fishery.”—Cage Ani 
Advertiser, February 24th, 1882. 
The catches of the average Portland and Boston vessels were 
not, probably more than half as great. The Martha C., before 
alluded to, in thirteen hours’ fishing caught 90,000 pounds of 
cod and haddock. The total amount of haddock carried into 
Boston into 1870 was 17,000,000 pounds; of this amount prob- 
