456 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
Table VIII .— The New England mackerel fishery in 1887. 
Customs district. 
Vessels. 
Men. 
Catch. 
TJsing purse seines. 
Using nets and 
hand-lines. 
Net tonnage. 
Value of vessels. 
Value of apparatus 
and outfit. 
Americans. 
British provincials. 
Other foreigners. 
Total. 
Sold fresh. 
Brine-salted. 
Value of catch. 
MAINE. 
Bbls. 
Bbls. 
1 
92. 48 
$8, 000 
$2, 000 
14 
14 
155 
$1, 705 
1 
41. 00 
3 000 
700 
7 
7 
5 
53 
8 
549. 98 
25, 200 
16, 200 
103 
21 
124 
2, 144 
26, 839 
Belfast 
13 
828. 07 
37, 700 
17’ 830 
156 
33 
”2 
191 
66 
1, 667 
20’ 941 
Waldoborough 
2 
14 
307. 19 
25, 650 
925 
70 
70 
973 
95 
11, 539 
Wiscasset 
11 
1 
766. 80 
57, 000 
16,300 
149 
”21 

170 
629 
2, 044 
29, 084 
Portland 
36 
10 
3, 055. 19 
210, 750 
62, 770 
550 
57 
*18 
625 
3, 831 
8, 058 
150, 068 
1 
6. 50 
400 
400 
3 
3 
16 
155 
! 
Total 
71 
27 
5, 647. 21 
367, 700 
122, 125 
1, 052 
132 
20 
O 
5,515 
14, 168 
240, 384 
NEW HAMPSHIRE. 
Portsmouth 
4 
1 
218. 40 
14, 850 
6, 325 
44 
4 
2 
50 
805 
248 
9, 250 
MASSACHUSETTS. 
Newhuryport 
1 
1 
57. 13 
2. 600 
2, 500 
17 
17 
23 
200 
2, 250 
Gloucester 
132 
33 
10, 957. 12 
656j 805 
382, 490 
1,535 
590 
155 
2,280 
10, 993 
47, 171 
625, 278 
Salem and Beverly 
3 
36. 87 
850 
260 
8 
] 
9 
85 
938 
Marblehead 
13 
1 
695. 48 
46, 300 
15, 600 
165 
3 
168! 6. 710 
500 
50, 722 
Boston 
16 
6 
1, 189. 17 
73, 700 
26, 425 
164 
58 
*44 
266 2, 140 
5, 287 
69,684 
Plymouth 
2 
145. 37 
7, 000 
2, 700 
26 
26 
, 268 
60 
3, 120 
Barnstable 
60 
”28 
4, 863. 01 
223, 000 
92, 265 
855 
150 
”58 
1, 063 
4, 721 
20, 896 
272, 077 
Nantucket 
1 
5. 34 
400 
65 
3 
3 
6 
15 
340 
Edgartown 
5 
70. 16 
5, 800 
1, 675 
19 
19 
200 
203 
2, 243 
New Bedford. 
1 
11 
158. 93 
6, 650 
1, 555 
27 
*20 
”2 
49 
j 315 
382 
8, 570 
Total 
225 
89 
18, 178. 58 
1, 023, 105 
525, 535 
2,819 
822 
259 
3, 900 
25, 376 
74, 799 
1, 035, 222 
RHODE ISLAND. 
Newport 
17 
189. 87 
20. 900 
610 
53 
53 
179 
1,453 
20, 563 
Providence 
1 
10. 07 
300 
50 
4 
4 
29 
250 
Total 
18 
199. 94 
21,200 
660 
57 
57 
208 
1,453 
20, 813 
CONNECTICUT. 
Stonington 
2 
32. 33 
1, 700 
400 
6 
6 
204 
1, 785 
New London 
1 
4 
135. 08 
7, 550 
2,585 
18 
10 
-- 
28 
103 
368 
5, 132 
Total 
1 
6 
167. 41 
9, 250 
2, 985 
24 
10 
.... 
34 
307 
368 
6, 917 
Grand total 
301 
141 
24, 411. 54 
1, 436- 105 
657, 630 
3,996 
968 
~281 
5, 245 
32, 211 
91,036 
l7312,~586 
Note. — T welve other vessels, including one in Connecticut, three in Massachusetts, and eight in 
Maine, took incidentally 53 barrels of fresh mackerel and 13 barrels of salt mackerel on the New Eng* 
land shore. These were valued at $531, and are not included in the above figures. 
Table IX . — The American mackerel fishery in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 1887. 
District. 
Vessels. 
Net ton- 
nage. 
Mack. 
erel 
taken. 
Portland district, Maine 
*22 
19 
109 
1 15 
13 
1, 782. 04 
1, 381. 41 
8, 722. 83 
1, 163. 91 
959. 95 
Barrels. 
1, 101 
967 
12, 976 
898 
1,490 
Other districts in Maine 
Gloucester district, Massachusetts 
Barnstable district, Massachusetts 
Other districts in Massachusetts 
Total 
178 
14, 010. 14 
17, 432 
* Including one New York vessel fishing fromPortland. 
t Including one New London vessel fishing from Provincetown- 
