The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1882-08-10

are doing good business in herring and mack
erel.....M Sachusetts fishermen complain Of
great difficulty in preserving mackcrrl this sea
son on account of the great abundance Of the
"red seed" minute crllstaceau ON which they
feed, which causes their flesh to soften soon
after being caught. In many instances after
remaining in the markercl pocket few hour,
the fish are unfit to curc.....lt is reported from
Pemaquid that there seems to be some fish OFT
shore and fishermen are doing better than an
average this season, although the mackcrcl con-
tlnue to be very scarce......A party of three
recently took four hundred and Seycntv-two
q out out of Little Greenwood Pond in one
day..-.The Cape Ann Advertiser Saws: From
all quarters come reports of 4 great scarcity of
Goldfish in their usual huuntS. \ number of the
Georges fleet, recently returned. report 4 catch
Of four to seven thousand pounds each, and
the average of the fares received the past week
has been only about eleven thousand pOund~...
one or two OF the wcirs at Pembroke hay G
been doing very good business taking ">ar-
dine herrings,' which sell readily at five dol
lars per hogshead, at the wers. and seven
dollars delivered at the factories at lubec.....
The Eastport Sentinel SAYS that the lobster
business in that section is i growing and i'm
portant one. The season lust closing has been
good one for fishermen and shippers. There
was shipped from PASSPORT to Boston and
Portland. during the past season. about 1000
barrels of live Holsters, valued At $4,000.
The three factories canned about 1900 cases
valued at S13 200. -. The Deer Isle Gazette has
the following items: Potter 4 Wrghtington
have contract to put up 300 cases herring.
sch. Kate Mcolmtock came in on Saturday, re-
ports mackerel very scarce. Fifteen hundred
pounds of mackerel were taken from Round
Isle Weir at two hauls. Green, Landing Mon
day 3lst. was the last day for canning Holsters
this season About 80 barrels live holsters
We're shipped from Green's Landing to Boston
the past week. Capt. ,Tourdam rhurloW arry-
ed Monday morning with eight halibut which
he shipped to Boston fresh. Schooner Ed
ward +. Webster. Capt. solomon Jacobs of
Gloucester, has stocked $1,000 in the mackrrcl
fishery this Season......Thc Brunswick Tclc-
graph believes that there is something more
than mere talk in the rumor about the men
,
and is glad to hear that Congress has appointed
commission to investigate our fisheries. The
Telegraph says: Last season the narkerr
ran very small; the result was that hundreds
of barrels were sened at times, and only about
five or ten barrels We're packed, the rest being
thrown overheard. The setting OF travis is
another method of DISCRIMINATING the lsll
mother fish being caught. Ten or fifteen wears
ago, cod and haddock could be caught iii almost
any of the bays in IIarpswel: now not one of
the larger food fish is ever caught in them
Fishing, poor AT that. is done outside. The
people of Iiarpswcll insist that the menhaden
steamers are now at work SEEMING mackerel
rect. "......Thc salmon fisheries Of the Pacific
coast have increased more than tWentyfold
within 10 years, and last years product was
nearly million cases, worth five million dol
lars. The southerly and more accessible rivers
are becoming iished t.....Captan Joseph W.
Collins, Assistant to the United States Fish
Commission, arrived in New York from Wash
mgton Thursday morning on a mission CON
nected with the coming great International
lsHtIitS ENlllbltloH III London Ill MAY, 1885.
1t will be remembered that Congress passed
and the President signed bill the other dav
approprating $1,000 for this exhibition. The
government appropriation for the Berlin Fish
cries Exhibition was only 5000 Captain
Collins left for Boston Thursday evening. He
is to make Il collection of models of vessels.
boats and apparatus used in the deep sea fish
I
Mass, and he will visit the principal fishing
ports on the coast of Manc.....James II. BaX-
ter, of Portland, has been granted patent on
an apparatus for packing dried fish .....A Ports
mouth, n. H.. despatch of the 9th says: Mack
erel off this shore are very backward this sea
son, none having been caught nearer than the
Shoals till yesterday, when 2000 of extra size
and fairness were taken in wers at the mouth
of the harbor.