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mackerel -fishing vessels. 



Mackerel schooner. 



Mackerel schooner Oasis, of North Haven, Me., becalmed at the 

 entrance to Portland Harbor. Vessel under foresail, mainsail, 

 two jibs, and main gaff-topsail ; towing seine-boat and dory. 

 Her catch in 1882 was 1,500 barrels of mackerel ; total stock, 

 $9,000. Built about 1863. Portland, Me., 1882. (Photo. No. 

 1865.) U. S. Fish Commission. 



Mackerel schooner. 



Mackerel schooner Laura Nelson, of Gloucester, off Half- Way Rock, 

 Massachusetts Bay; flying-jib down, seine-boat and dory tow- 

 ing ; men at work on deck dressing mackerel. Massachusetts 

 Bay, 1882. (Photo. No. 1935.) U. S. Pish Commission. 



Mackerel schooner. 



Mackerel schooner Mabel Dilloway, of Gloucester, cruising on 

 the fishing ground in Massachusetts Bay. The schooner is 

 standing along by the wind, close-hauled, on the port tack. 

 This photograph (30 by 40 inches) gives a good idea of the 

 general appearance and rig of the best class of vessels employed 

 in the purse-seine mackerel fishery. The seine-boat and dory 

 are towing astern, and a man at the foremast-head is looking 

 out for schools of mackerel. The balloon-jib, fore gaff-topsail, 

 and main staysail are not set. Other vessels of the mackerel 

 fleet are in the distance. Massachusetts Bay, 1882. (Photo. 

 No. 1936.) U. S. Fish Commission. 



Mackerel fishing fleet. 



View of the mackerel fleet under sail searching for mackerel ; har- 

 bor and city of Gloucester in the distance; schooner Ellen M. 

 Adams, of Gloucester, in the foreground. Massachusetts Bay, 

 1882. (Photo. No. 1939.) TJ. S. Fish Commission. 



Mackerel schooner. 



View of schooner Frank Foster, of Gloucester, lying at a wharf at 

 East Gloucester; seine-boats astern; deck filled with mackerel 

 in barrels ; crew at work dressing fish. Gloucester, Mass., 1882. 

 (Photo. No. 1968.) U. S. Fish Commission. 



Mackerel schooner. 



Schooner Daniel Marcy, of Boston, bound out mackereling; bal- 

 loon-jib set. Gloucester, Mass., 1882. (Photo. No. 2009.) U.S. 

 Fish Commission. 



