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1870 it amounted to $917,079.90 ; for during the last years the herring 

 has again appeared on the coast of Bohuslan. Large quantities were 

 also caught in 1870 near Marstrand and Maltno, so that in Carlshamn 

 alone 19,146,600 pounds were salted, while in 1872 there were only 

 11,000,000 pounds. The mackerel fishery on the coast of Bohuslan, 

 which only continues one month, yielded in 1S71 an income of from 

 $8,100 to $11,200 in the district of Stromstadt alone. The salmon fish- 

 eries on the south coast near Carlscrona, adjacent to the Kullen promon- 

 tory, and those in the rivers Dal and Klara, were likewise very pro- 

 ductive. The export of fish from Gottenburg was very large in 1872. 

 No less than 135,905 pounds of salmon packed in ice, 349,8S2 pounds of 

 dried cod, and 5,500 pounds of anchovies were shipped. 



3. — Denmark. 



The Danish fisheries are not so extensive, because the abundance of 

 fish is not so great, and because the extent of coast is less. In 1869 the 

 fisheries in the Ljimfjord yielded the following : the 2,459 persons em- 

 ployed caught fish valued at $104,975, yielding a net income of $79,312, 

 and giving about $32.50 to each fisherman. This was less than in 186S, 

 when the total yield of fish was valued at $112,370. The number of 

 herring caught in the autumn of 1870, on the coasts of the island of 

 Funen, was so large that they did not all find a market. In the Great 

 Belt it was very small in 1872, twenty-eight boats from the town of 

 Korsor catching about a million, and valued at $6,415. In 1871 a large 

 number of cod were caught on the western and eastern coasts of Jut- 

 land, of which about 353,100 pounds, valued at $3,332.50, were ex- 

 ported.- 



4. — Germany. 



The German fisheries are not so remunerative, since the extent of 

 coast is small, and much of it consists of inland seas. The total net 

 annual income is valued at $1,500,000. Two fishing societies were or- 

 ganized in 1868, at Hamburg and Bremen, on the North Sea. The Ham- 

 burg North-Sea fishing society has worked with a capital of $120,000, 

 and their receipts during the first half of 1869 amounted to $23,380.61, 

 and during the same period in 1870 to only $19,713.26, or $3,667.38 less. 

 In consequence of the poor fishing season and the foundering of a vessel, 

 the society sustained a loss of $4,281.46, and was obliged to close its 

 office in 1871. The Bremen society met with similar disastrous experi-, 

 ences, and has also been dissolved. Great Britain exported to Germany, 

 in 1871, 962,533,000 of herring, valued at $3,436,837.50, which outlay 

 ought to have been avoided. If, however, this importation of foreign 

 fish is to be prevented, the fisheries must be carried on much more ener- 

 getically than they have yet been. In Emden, a new herring-fishing 

 society has been formed, which had every reason to be satisfied with its 

 success in 1872, for in twenty-one trips they realized $39,780. And if 

 it should combine fishing in deep water with fishing on the ocean, the 



