Report of some of the "high liners" of the New England mackerel and codfish fleets, season Wm. M. Gafferey, Gloucester.. Abbie M. Deering, Portland, Me C. H. Kelley, Boston M. B. Tower, Boston... Mertie & Delmar, South Chatham Willie Irving, South Chatham Alice, Provincetown.. Hattie D. Linnell, Provincetown A. E. Herrick, Swans Island, Me Lottie Hopkins, North Haven, Me Barrels. 800 Barrels. 2,160 1 $25,700.00 124, 700.00 12,000.00 112,000.00 115,000.00 Schooner. One fare. One fare. Amount of inspected barrels New England mackerel, packed at home ports and southern catch, as reported to the Boston Fish Bureau, 1883. 1 Includes vessels from other ports. * Vessels packed out part or all of catch at other ports. Shore fleet mentioned only fished off the northeast shore. The bay and southern fleet also fished there part of the season. New England fleet catch of cod and other ground fish landed at home ports, as reported to the Boston Fish Bureau, 1883. New England fleet catch of cod and other ground fish landed at home ports, as reported to the Boston Fish Bureau, 1883-Continued. Price of mackerel in Massachusetts, per barrel, of each grade of pickled mackerel in the first week of September from 1830 to 1883. [Compiled from the report of U.S. Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries.] 695 7,719 474,078 424,826 604 6, 402 355,640 419,387 Tonnage of vessels of the United States employed in the whale, cod, and mackerel fisheries from 1860 to 1882, inclusive. 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 18651 18661 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 [From the figures contained in the annual report of the Register of the Treasury.] 1 The tonnage for 1865 and 1866 is partly by new measurement and partly by old. NOTE. The mackerel licenses have not been issued separately since 1867, when a general fishing license was provided to replace cod and mackerel fisheries. The following table has been prepared from the annual report of the Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury Department, and is based on the custom-house returns. Attention may be called to the importation, duty free, of 109,737,420 pounds of fresh fish, valued at $3,242,566. Nearly all of this came from Canada under the treaty of Washington. The exports have constantly increased in quantity and value, due, doubtless, in some degree, to the successful participation of the United States in the international fishery exhibitions held in Europe. Statistics of the imports of fish and fish oil for ten years ending June 30, 1882. [By Charles W. Smiley, U. S. Fish Commission.] Fresh, of all kinds....pounds.. 8,636, 279 9,587, 595 15, 308, 769 10,723, 216 |