222 FISH-CULTURAL ASSOCIATION. 
$1,200 the past fortnight fishing in Ipswich bay. The “ Morrill 
Boy” has shared $101 to a man net fishing off this shore the 
past three weeks. 
The ‘“ Morrill Boy” met with unexampled success, her crew 
of five men having shared $320 apiece, clear of all expenses, by 
the last of December, the time employed being less than six 
weeks. 
From the port of Gloucester alone, according to Capt. Mar- 
tin, there were employed in the gill-net cod fishery during De- 
cember, 1882, twenty vessels, carrying 124 men and 176 nets, 
In the period between November roth and the last of December, 
600,000 pounds of large shore cod were landed in Gloucester, 
while 150,000 pounds were marketed at Rockport and Ports- 
mouth, making a grand total of 750,000 pounds. When to this 
is added the amount which was probably taken by the vessels 
from other ports, it is perhaps safe to say that no less than 
2,000,000 pounds of this highly valued and most excellent food- 
fish were caught in nets during the month of December and the 
latter part of November. 
In the early part of the winter of 1882-’3 codfish were taken 
in nets in great abundance on the rocky shoals of Massachusetis 
bay. After the beginning of January, however, the fish were 
found to be most abundant in Ipswich bay; and, in consequence 
of this, the fleet of shore cod fishermen resorted to that locality, 
where they met with the most remarkable success, the catch dur- 
ing the first month of 1883 being, it is said, much larger than at 
any previous time. According to Captain Martin’s report for 
January, 1883, 121,000 pounds of netted cod were landed in 
Gloucester during the month. Writing to Professor Baird un- 
der date of February 6th, he made the, statement that. ‘ten .sail 
of small vessels which had been fishing in Ipswich bay, had land- 
ed at Rockport, Mass., and Portsmouth, N. H., during the pre- 
vious twenty days, 230,000 pounds of large codfish.” Calculat- 
ing on this basis, the total catch of the whole fleet during the 
month of January, 1883, must have been very large. 
It was not, however, until the winter of 1883-’4, that the real 
value and importance of the introduction of gill-nets into our 
cod fisheries could be fully and fairly estimated. The results 
