30 MADRAS FISHERIES BULLETIN VOL. XIV, 



from all important fishing centres giving the catches and landings 

 of fish for the same period, (3) information on the progress of 

 mackerel and herring fisheries at home and abroad, (4) Consular 

 reports on the fish trade, (5) publication of new laws and regulations 

 affecting fishermen, such as that on the registration and marking 

 of fishing boats, with explanations and illustrations where 

 necessary and (6) statistical tables of the total catches of all food 

 fishes from the beginning of the current year to date. Any other 

 matter, domestic or foreign, directly of interest or value to the trade, 

 that comes within the ken of the editor is included. The paper is 

 of the greatest use to the fish-merchant and exporter by giving 

 them reliable and unbiassed accounts of the state of the markets 

 for their produce and of the factors that affect prices. It serves as 

 a useful link in many ways between the department and the trade 

 who appreciate highly the service thus rendered. It serves also 

 to keep before the' trade the fact that the department undertakes 

 for a small'fee the analysis of materials used in fish industries and 

 of fish products. The advertisement pages are by no means the 

 least useful feature of this little journal. 



Besides the Fiskcts Gang, the department issues a publication 

 entitled Aarheretning vedkommcjide Norges Fiskerier. Several parts 

 appear each year. These contain a series of detailed sectional 

 departmental reports, the annual reports of the various fishery 

 societies and unions, affiliated to or subsidized by the department, 

 the debates of the Fishery Council, accounts of scientific work done 

 by the experts of the department, statistics of the great seasonal 

 fisheries and similar related matter. Technical and statistical 

 information of a special nature, too long and detailed to find 

 a place in such annual reports, is issued separately under various 

 forms. 



Apart from these departmental publications are those of the 

 chief Fishery Societies. The most useful is the well-known 

 Norsk Fiskcritiilcnde published monthly by the "Society for the 

 promotion of Norwegian fisheries," from its offices in Bergen. 

 This monthly, of handy octavo size, runs usually to 38 or 40 pages 

 of letterpress exclusive of advertisements. To a large extent it is 

 complimental to Fiskcts Gang, for while the latter caters chiefly for 

 fish-traders and exporters and gives chief prominence to market 

 reports and statistics, the Norsk Fiskeritidcnde devotes its space 

 primarily to subjects dealing with the catching of fish. It is the 



