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Plate VIII. — Way in which cod gill-nets are set at the bottom on the east coast of 

 Newfoundland. 



1. Ends of the net or gang. 



2. Stone killick, generally on the head end of the gang. 



3. Stone mooring. 



4. Auchor-liue, one end of which is bent to lower corner of the net, and the other 



to the killick or stone mooring. 



5. Buoy- lines. These are sometimes bent to the killicks, and at other times to 



the lower corner of the net, as shown by the dotted line. 



6. Buoys. 



Plate IX. — The ordinary way in which cod gill-nets are set floating at Newfoundland. 

 1. Ends of the net or gang. 

 •2. Buoys. 



3. Anchor-lines. 



4. Anchors. (Iron anchors, stones, or stone killicksTiiay be used.) 

 Plate X. — Norwegian net and trawl buoy made of glass floats. 



Plate XI. — Waj^ in which cod gill-nets are set for underrunuing in Ipswich Bay, 



1. End of the gang of nets. 



2. Anchor-line, also called the " underrunning line." 



3. Anchor. 



4. Buoy-line. 



5. Buoy. 



Plate XII. — Manner in which the nets are underrun. 



PROTECTION OF WHAliES.* 



[From a Christiania iiaper of January 25, 1881.] 



As Norwegian laws cannot be enforced ontside of Norwegian territory, 

 the law of June 19, 1880, regulating the protection of whales on the 

 coast of Finmarken, left it to the King to determine the limits of that 

 portion of the sea to which protection should be apj)lied. We have re- 

 cently communicated a royal proclamation of January 5, 1881, giving 

 the limits referred to. According to this the zone of i^rotection extends 

 one geograx)hical mile from the coast, counted from the outermost islands 

 which are never under water. In the Varangerliord the outer limit of 

 the zone of protection is a straight line from Kibergnas to Grause- 

 Jacobselv; at Kibergnas, however, protection is to be enforced also out- 

 side that line at a distance less than one geographical mile from the coast. 



The season of j^rotection extends from the beginning of the year till 

 the end of May. It is not easy to say beforehand what influence this 

 limitation of the fishing season will have on the whale-fisheries, which 

 are carried on in spring during the capelin-fisheries, and during suni- 

 mer. We do not possess sufficient data to show the result of the fish- 

 eries prior to the 1st of June and after that date. Svend Foyn has 

 informed us that of 45 whales caught by him in 1876, 5 were caught 

 during the period May 8 — when fishing commenced — till the 1st of June ; 

 In 1877, 13 whales were caught prior to the 1st of June, and in 1878, 



* Fredning af Hi'ul. Translated by Herman Jacobson. 



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