FISHERIES OF THE NEW ENGLAND STATES. 289 
The fresh fish business of Boston centers at T wharf, where, unless 
prevented by severe weather, vessels arrive from the fishing grounds 
with fares of fish practically every day in the year. The fleet owned 
at Boston numbered 78 vessels, but fish are also landed there by an 
equally large number of vessels from Gloucester, Provincetown, and 
other ports along the coast. Large quantities of fish are also brought 
by steamboats and railroad trains, and by numerous small boats in the 
shore fisheries. 
The fresh fish landed at Boston in 1902 by vessels owned there con- 
sisted principally of 8,116,663 pounds of cod, 430,900 pounds of cusk, 
17,006,950 pounds of Raddoek 5,150,600 pounds of hake, 881,500 
aelide of pollock, 5,076,100 pounds of halibut, 1,073,631 pounds of 
mackerel, and 284,000 pounds of herring, aggregating 38,020,344 
pounds, having a value to the fishermen of $958,959. The catch also 
included fresh fish of other species and salted fish in smaller quantities. 
The quantity of fish landed at Boston by American fishing vessels in 
1902, including those ue other ports, was 78,973,996 pounds, valued 
at 82, 042,638, of which 77,608,596 saunas, $1,994,198, were fresh, and 
1,865,400 arma: Mount were salted. The fish received from the 
various sources are shipped to dealers in the towns and cities in the 
New England States, to New York and other cities in the Middle 
Atlantic States, and as far west as Denver, Colo. 
In the shore fisheries of Boston 128 Italian fishermen with 75 dories 
engaged in catching flounders and other species. The only forms of 
apparatus used were hand lines and short trawls. The fishermen 
occupy fishing camps on the islands in Boston Harbor some 8 miles 
from the city, and fish about eight months of the year. They sell 
their fish at the head of T wharf by the piece, bunch, or small lot, 
chiefly to buyers of their own nationality. In 1902 the catch concizted 
of flounders, 550,000 pounds, $22,000; cod, 160,000 pounds, $4,000; 
haddock, 45,000 pounds, $1,350; pollock, 15,000 pounds, $450; and 
whiting or silver h ake, 30,000 pounds, $300; a total of 740,000 pounds, 
with a value of $28,100. 
The clam Psboneas in Boston Harbor are engaged in by 15 men with 
10 dories. The greater part of the catch is taken during the summer, 
although the fishery is carried on to some extent at other seasons of 
the year when the weather permits. The boats usually make four 
trips a week and average 3 barrels of clams each to a trip. The clams 
are taken at low tide from the mud flats in the harbor, which are also 
worked more or less by a large number of fishermen who reside at the 
various seaside resorts in that vicinity, where they market their catch. 
The catch in 1902 was 11,520 bushels, valued at $5,760. 
Eels are taken about eight months of the year, in and near the 
mouths of small streams emptying into Boston Harbor, by 15 fisher- 
F. C. 1904—19 
