| Summary: | high The work of splitting kept the men busy until nearly eleven o'clock. The talk then was of the number of tubs split that day, which was added to the count kept by some member of the crew. The amount of fish on board at any given time was reckoned in units of tubs. Three tubs held about 1,000 pounds of dressed fish, and thus our cargo, which by count contained 255 tubs, weighed off at Gloucester 78,000 pounds. By induction they could tell how large their cargo was at any time, though they did not often reduce it, since by long use the amount in tubs has asdefinite a meaning as the amount in pounds. JAN 18 1981 Not Used Not used Withdrawn Checked by Jordyn Hughes on Tue 21 Apr 2015
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