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Fishes of Massachusetts. 341 
Those packed in 1836, were furnished by the 
following towns: 
Boston, - - - 40,559 barrels. 
Gloucester and Manchester, 43,937 
Newburyport and AP AT. 21,463 
Wellfleet,  - - 17,500 
Provincetown, - - 14,139 
Hingham, - - - 13,882 
Cohasset,  - - - 11,700 
Barnstable, - - - 4,115 
Scituate, - - E 3,782 
Yarmouth, - E 2,446 
Salem and Bere - 2,294 
Plymouth,  - E 1,477 
Lynn, - NE - 1,400 
Duxbury, - - ~- 1,000 
Charlestown, - ~ 822 i 
At the prices these fish were worth in November, 
1836, the value of the year's fishing amounts to 
1,264,012 dollars. 
'The whole number of barrels of mackerel inspect- 
ed in Massachusetts for the five years, from 1832 to 
1836 inclusive, are as follows : 
1832,—224,000 barrels; 1833,—225,000; 1834, 
—253,000; 1835,— 197,000 ; 1836,—180,616. 
Although it would seem, from the above table, 
that a smaller quantity of mackerel had been packed 
in 1836, than the several years immediately preced- 
ing it, yet it cannot be inferred from this circum- 
stance that fewer vessels were engaged, or that the 
business was considered less important than before. 
