BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 71 
wife, bluefish, and other migratory fish, concerning which much im- 
portant information is yet to be obtained. 
The spring mackerel tleet have been actively engaged in making 
ready for the work of the season. The first vessel to start, the schooner 
Mayflower, sailed from Gloucester on March 11, and was followed dur- 
ing the month by the steamer Novelty and 38 other mackerel vessels 
hailing from Maine and Massachusetts ports. Up to the close of the 
month no mackerel have been caught or seen. 
A few vessels from Gloucester will go to Flemish Cap for codfish, 
but probably none will visit the Greenland coast this year. The Glou- 
cester schooners Davy Crockett and Arthur D. Story sailed on halibut 
trips to the coast of Iceland on March 23, followed, two days later, by 
the Annie M. Jordan. The schooner Concord will soon sail for the 
same locality. No other American fishing vessels are expected to 
visit Iceland during the season. 
Fish landed at Gloucester by the fishing fleet in March, 1887. 
Fishing grounds. 
Number 
of fares. 
Codfish. 
Halibut. 
Frozen 
herring. 
Pickled 
herring. 
By Gloucester vessels : 
George’s Ban I? . 
121 
Founds. 
3, 176, 00C 
6, 000 
Pounds. 
177, 900 
312, 400 
556, 709 
Number. 
Barrels. 
Grand Bank 
13 
Off Sable Island 
13 
Bay of Fundy .... ... 
4 
861, 000 
725, 000 
Fortune Bay 
2 
160 
Tpswieh Bay 
21 
400, 000 
173, 400 
6, 000 
Off New England shore. ..... 
53 
Off New England shore (by small boats). 
Total 
227 
3, 761, 400 
1, 047, 000 
1, 586, 000 
160 
By vessels belonging at other ports :* 
Tpswieh Bay 
7 
77, 000 
6, 900 
Off New England shore 
3 
Grand Bank 
1 
25, 000 
Bay of Fnndy 
1 
140, 000 
Total 
12 
83, 900 
25, 000 
140, 000 
Total in March, 1887 
239 
3, 845, 300 
4, 568, 334 
1, 072, 000 
1, 106, 100 
1. 726. 000 
1. 860. 000 
160 
Total in "M a/rch , 1 886 _ _ 
190 
Note.— IJ he miscellaneous receipts from other ports during the month consisted of 1,000 boxes 
smoked herring, 1,650 quintals hake, 100 quintals cod, 25 quintals haddock, 25 quintals cusk, and 21 
barrels fish-oil from Maine ; and 1,675 barrels fish-oil from Tiverton, R. I. 
* These fish were landed by the following schooners: Venus, of Eastport, Me. ; A. C. Newhall, of 
New Castle, N. H. ; Franklin S. Schenck and Mary S. Hontvet, of Portsmouth, N. H. ; E. A. Williams, 
of Boston, Mass. ; Mary E. Story, of Swampscott, Mass. ; and ClaraTR. Grimes, Estelle S. Nunan, and 
Edith Conley, of Rockport, Mass. 
35.— NOTES ON THE FROZEN-HERRING, TRADE WITH NEWFOUND. 
LAND AN© THE BAY OF FUNDY DURING THE WINTER OF 18S6-’87. 
By W. A. WILCOX. 
The frozen-herring business of the past winter closed early in April. 
The Newfoundland trade, in which twenty-seven vessels from Glou- 
cester were engaged, was quite successful. ’The first one in search of 
frozen herring sailed on November 20, the last on January 21. The first 
