BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 67 
cargo of 210,000 frozen herring in number. This was the first cargo 
landed during the season. Vessels that went to Newfoundland for 
frozen herring are now arriving with full cargoes and report herring of 
good size and quality to have been plentiful. 
When, the weather has been favorable the U. S. Fish Commis- 
sion schooner Grampus, Captain Collins, has engaged in collecting 
codfish spawn direct from the fishing grounds near Cape Ann and 
carrying them to the hatching station at Wood’s Holl. She has also 
brought large quantities of young fish from the hatchery and turned 
them loose in the in-shore waters. The Grampus and other boats of 
the U. S. Fish Commission from Wood’s Holl have during the season 
planted about 20,000,000 young codfish in the vicinity of Cape Cod. 
This branch of the work has been prosecuted with success, the amount 
of eggs procured and hatched being limited only by the unfavorable 
weather that has much of the time prevented the taking of eggs on 
the fishing grounds. 
The annual meeting of the Menhaden Oil and Guano Association was 
held at New York on January 12th. This fishery was formerly exten- 
sively prosecuted as far north as the coast of Maine, but is now con- 
fined to the coast between Narragansett Bay and North Carolina. 
During the past season the fish have been found in abundance and the 
members of the association report an average production of oil and 
scrap. 
Fish landed at Gloucester by the fishing fleet in January , 1887. 
Fishing grounds. 
Number 
of fares. 
Salt cod. 
Fresh 
halibut. 
Salt 
haddock. 
Frozen 
herring. 
Pickled 
herring. 
By Gloucester vessels: 
VV Astern Rank 
1 
Pounds. 
50, 000 
Pounds. 
Pounds . 
Number. 
Barrels. 
Rank 
15 
392, 500 
15, 000 
43, 100 
Ra.nqnerean 
1 
George’s Bank.... .......... 
14 
236, 000 
Bay of Fundy 
4 
790, 000 
2, 360, 000 
50, 000 
Fortune Bay, Newfound- 
]a,nd , 
6 
180 
Barren Island, Newfound- 
land 
1 
1, 100 
New England shore: 
Trawl fishery 
46 
326, 300 
29, 000 
27, 800 
2,000 
Gill-net fishery 
15 
By small boats 
Total 
103 
669, 100 
450, 600 
2, 000 
3, 200, 000 
1,280 
By vessels belonging at other 
ports :* 
New England shore: 
Gill-net fishery 
3 
9,800 
Trawl fishery 
5 
58, 500 
Grand Bank. ...... ........ 
1 
25, 000 
Total 
9 
68, 300 
25, 000 
Total, January, 1887.... 
Total, January, 1886.... 
112 
64 
737, 400 
510, 000 
475, 600 
517,800 
2, 000 
15, 000 
3, 200, 000 
4, 361, 000 
1,280 
220 
Note.— The miscellaneous receipts from other ports consisted of 50 barrels pickled herring by the 
Boston and Maine Railroad. 
* These fish were landed by the following schooners : Flora Temple, of Portland, Me. ; Franklin 
Schenck and Mary S. Hontvet, of Portsmouth, N. H. ; Eliza, of Marblehead, Mas3. ; E. A. Williams, of 
Boston, Mass. ; Estelle S. Nuaan and E. L. Sanborn, of Rockport, Mass. 
