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Tables XVI to XX give comparative statistics for several different 
years of the operations of vessels hailing from Xew England ports and 
engaged in the cod or the market fisheries. 
Table XVI shows the average catch per vessel and per man, for the 
years 1879, 1885, 1886, 1887, and 1888, of 20 Gloucester vessels engaged 
in the George’s cod-fishery, and 20 others in the Grand, Western, and 
Quereau banks cod-fishery. The figures given show that the catch of 
the average bank vessel was from 7,000 to 40,000 pounds larger in 1888 
than in 1879, and the catch per man had increased during the same 
period by from 1,000 to 4,000 pounds, except in the George’s cod- 
fishery, where there was a falling off of 1,265 pounds in that particular. 
The cod-fishery seems to have been most successful in 1886 on George’s 
Bank, while on the other banks, although the increase in the quantity 
taken by each vessel is most marked for 1887 and 1888, the catch per 
man was largest in 1885. 
Table XVII shows the average annual catch per vessel and per 
man, from the years 1885 to 1888, of 14 vessels belonging to Province- 
town, Massachusetts, and employed in the cod -fisheries on Quereau, 
Western, and Grand banks. The figures given show that the average 
catch of each vessel in 1887 was 8,350 pounds greater than in 1885, and 
the average to each man had increased by 816 pounds during the same 
period ; but the year 1888 was a less fortunate one, and the averages 
were 4,205 pounds to a vessel and 2,722 pounds to a man below what 
they had been in 1885. The apparent disproportion between the de- 
crease per vessel and per man is due to the fact that the crews carried 
in 1888 numbered more men than in 1885. 
Table XVIII shows the American cod-fishery in the Gulf of St. Law- 
rence between 1885 and 1888, inclusive. For a number of years the 
only American vessels entering the Gulf of St. Lawrence for the pur- 
pose of taking fish other than mackerel have belonged at the port of 
Provincetown, and these have fished only for cod, chiefly with trawls. 
It will be seen from the table that the average catch of these vessels 
in so-called Canadian waters is very much less than the catch of other 
vessels following the cod-fishery on the ocean banks. 
Table XIX shows the largest catch of a single vessel and average 
catch and stock of 20 vessels of the fleet engaged in the Boston market 
fishery between 1885 and 1888, inclusive. The catch consists of cod, 
haddock, pollock, etc., and is marketed fresh in Boston. The Boston 
market schooners are among the finest and largest of the Xew England 
fishing fleet, and are specially noted for speed. Their average net ton- 
nage is 84.45 tons, and the average number of men constituting a crew 
is 17. 
Table XX shows the largest individual catch and the average catch 
and stock of 16 vessels, chiefly welled smacks, engaged in the market 
fishery from the port of Greenport, Xew York, taking chiefly cod and 
bluefish, with trawls and hand-lines, and landing their catch in Xew 
