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ably at leest 13,000,000 were obtained by the winter haddock 
vessels. The total yield of this fishery does not, probably, fall 
below 18,000,000 to 20,000,000 pounds. 
RUNNING FOR THE MARKET. 
No class of vessels, not even halibut schooners, take more 
risks in running for market than do the haddock schooners. It 
is of the utmost importance to them to reach the market with 
their fish in good condition, and, if possible, to be in advance of 
other vessels engaged in the same business. In the stormiest of 
weather all sail that they will bear is crowded upon them, and 
harbors are made even in heavy snow and fog. The trips are 
short, averaging frequently not more than two or three days, 
and rarely not longer than a week or ten days ; they are, there- 
fore, constantly running for the land, and are more accustomed 
to making the coast than the halibut vessels, and become so fa- 
miliar with the harbors most frequently resorted to, especially 
with that of Boston, that they are able to enter them when no 
other vessels, probably not even pilot boats, would care to make 
the attempt. What has already been said about the dangers en- 
countered by the halibut schooners will apply as well, in its 
fullest extent, to the haddock schooner. 
THE MANNER OF OUTFIT. 
In the winter haddock fishery every man supplies his own 
dory and outfit complete, besides paying his share of the provi- 
sion bill. In the settlement of the voyage the vessel draws one- 
fourth of the net stock, or, in the case of the older vessels, ac- 
cording to the old system, only one-fifth, after certain stock 
charges have been deducted for bait, ice, wharfage and towage. 
The remaining three-fourths or four-fifths of the stock is divid- 
ed equally among the crew, the owner paying the skipper’s com- 
mission or percentage from the vessel’s quarter. The average 
share of the Gloucester crews for the year 1880-’81 was about 
g290. The most successful shared gsoo to $550. The largest 
stock ever made in one day’s fishing in the winter shore fishery 
up to 1880 was that of the Eastern Queen, of Gloucester, which 
