File:Fifty-Third Annual Report of the Commissioners of Fisheries and Game for the Year Ending November 30, 1918 (1918) (14781353084).jpg

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Title: Fifty-Third Annual Report of the Commissioners of Fisheries and Game for the Year Ending November 30, 1918
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Massachusetts. Commissioners of Fisheries and Game
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Contributing Library: State Library of Massachusetts
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t that the catches had been unusu-ally large, and that with the prevailing prices they had had aremarkable season. The general belief among the fishermenwas that this has been due to the practice of putting back theshort lobsters. A lobsterman of Salem Willows on August 31stated that his daily catch all through the season, up to aweek or ten days before, never went below 50 pounds. He had60 traps out, and found between 50 and 100 shorts per day. AMarblehead fisherman on the same date confirmed the story ofunusually large catches, and gave his catch as from 40 to 60pounds per day. He stated, further, that the catch ran rightthrough the shedding season, which he considered most remark-able, as a let-up is always to be expected at shedding time. Awholesale and retail lobster dealer, who has been in the businessover twenty-five years, and handles the catches from Marble-head, Salem, Beverly and Manchester into Gloucester, was inter-viewed on September 20, and said that 1918 was one of the
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1918.1 PUBLIC DOCUMENT — Xo. 2:). 249 most remarkable years he had known, with lar^e catches andgood prices. The lowest i)rice was 25 cents per pound. Afisherman of IVIarblehead, who fishes on what is known as thebreeding ground, reported that there have been days when hethrew back between 100 and 150 shorts from 50 traps. Anotherman in one large haul caught nearly 80 pounds at a time whenlobsters were bringing over 30 cents per pound. Daily catchesof 50, 60 and 70 pounds were not uncommon around Marble-head. The deputy who has charge of the lobster work around Bos-ton, including the inspection of Nova Scotia shipments cominginto the city, reports that he finds conditions as to these ship-ments have changed from year to year in the nine yearsduring which he has had charge of the wholesale dealers andreceivers of lobsters in Boston. These lobsters are growingsmaller or are caught before they attain their full size.The number caught and shipped from Nova Scotia hasdecreased, and shipp

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