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work, a record is here given of the trips of the schooner North- 
ern Eagle, of Gloucester, Capt. George H. Martin. 
TRIPS OF NORTHERN EAGLE, CAPT. GEORGE H. MARTIN. 
Length 
No. of of trip. Price. 
trips. Date of start. Days. No. of fish taken. Where sold. Cents. 
I tins 7 eee 10 16 (5,000 Ibs.) Boston. 3 « 
2 PUREST Osu y 22 (6,600 Ibs.) do. 4% 
3 IETS ON th pause 4 12 (3,700 Ibs.) Newport:: 2% 
4 sale 2 are II 20 (5,800 lbs.) BOston oc ne 
5 ey 27.5: 18 37 (9,000 Ibs.) dod. 5 
6 PU USt DP Secs hs 26 (6,500 lbs.) do. 3 
7 Septydievee 16 16 (5,600 Ibs.) do. (2) 
8 NEMb. 20. athe 14 14 (4,500 lbs.) do. (3) 
163 (46,700 lbs.) 
RESULEZS OF DRIPS BY OTHER \VESSELS. 
Capt. Benjamin Ashby went swordfishing in the schooner N. 
H. Dudley two successive years, in 1859 and 1860. In July and 
August, 1859, he took one hundred and eight fish ; the next year 
eighty-eight. 
The schooner Yankee Bird, of New Bedford, boarded in Pro- 
vincetown Harbor, August, 1879, had already that season taken 
sixty fish. 
Mr. Earll reached Portland in the progress of the fishery 
census investigation, July 29th, 1880. On this day, he writes, 
thirty-five to forty fish were brought in, and on the first of 
August two hundred more were landed, sixty by one vessel. 
SLATISTICS, OF SCAPL URE. . 
It is at present only possible to give estimated statistics of 
capture, though a year hence, when the returns of the fishery 
census, now in progress, shall have been tabulated, much more 
accurate figures will be attainable. Putting the number of ves- 
sels regularly employed in swordfishing at forty, estimating 
their annual catch at eighty fish each, which is only half the 
quantity taken by the Northern Eagle, as shown in the preced- 
