II -STATISTICS OF THE MOST IMPORTANT FISHERIES OF THE 



NORTH ATLANTIC. 



By Carl Dajibeck. 



The following statistics show the yield of the fisheries of the most 

 important States on the North Atlantic Ocean : 



1. — Norway. 



During the twenty years from. 1850 to 1870, the average annual 

 amount of herring caught was 1,452,000,000 pounds, (avoirdupois,) 

 representing a value of upward of $2,200,000. The total export of 

 herring in 1870 was valued at $3,850,000. During the last few years 

 the herring have mostly gone to the province of Nordland. In the bay 

 of Malanger a comparatively large number of great herring were caught 

 in 1871. From August to November, 270,600,000 pounds were caught ; 

 and in 1872, as many as 1,210,000,000 pounds. The herring fisheries 

 south of the Stadt promontory have decreased. The cod-fisheries in 

 Sondmore were very considerable in 1871. Up to the 19th of March 

 four millions of cod were caught, representing a value of $330,000. The 

 yield of the spring cod-fisheries in 1873 was nineteen and a half millions 

 of fish, 110,000,000 pounds of liver, or at least 55,000,000 pounds of oil, 

 and 39,600,000 pounds of roe, or two millions of fish more than the year 

 before, or a half million more than the average annual yield of the last 

 fourteen years. The total values have probably been the largest ever 

 realized in the spring fisheries, and amounted to $1,870,000 ; while in 

 1872 it was only $1,386,000 5 and, on an average, $1,375,000 annually 

 during the period from 1859 to 1S72. The mackerel fisheries, of course, 

 did not yield so abundantly. In 1870 a million of mackerel, valued at 

 $14,300, were exported to England from Christiansand ; and in 1871, 

 1,813,860 were exported from the same place, valued at $63,202.70; 

 while 100,000 were sold in the city and neighborhood. The salmon 

 fishery in 1S71 was likewise very productive. During the first half of 

 the year, 177,685 pounds, valued at $29,729.70, were exported. The 

 yield of the Norwegian fisheries were larger in 1S70 than in any previous 

 year. The fish exported were valued at $10,833,909.90, or $1,268,300 

 more than in 1869, and $2,805,500 more than in 1866. 



2.— Sweden. 



According to the report of the superintendent of fisheries, Mr. von 

 Yhlen, the value of the fisheries in 1869 was only $894,947.90, while in 



*Das Ausland, Stuttgart, 1374, No. 13. Translated by H. Jacobson, p. 363. 



