'6i)6 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COilMISSION. 



Exports of fishery probucts from Norway. — The tot.al value 

 of the exportation of fishery products from Norway, calcuhited at 

 the wholesale prices paid at the ports of exportation, and hence in- 

 clusive of the Norwegian profit, was, from 18G6 to 1884, annually 

 about 42,000,000 crowns [§11,256,000]. Norway therefore receives 

 every year about the same sum for fish which Germany pays annually 

 for fish imported from abroad. The lowest sum, 29,000,000 crowns 

 [87,772,000], realized from the exportation of fish was in 1868, and the 

 largest, 50,000,000 crowns [$13,400,000], was in 1881. From the year 

 1870 exportation has gradually increased. Of the total value of fish 

 exported, 27,500,000 crowns [$7,370,000], or G5 per cent, were received 

 for the products of the cod fisheries, namely, "klip-fish," "stock-fish," 

 cod-liver oil, roe, fish-flour, guano, &c. ; while the products of the herring 

 fisheries (salt and smoked herring and anchovies) represented 32 per 

 cent, or 13,250,000 crowns [$3,551,000] ; and other fish 3 per cent, or 

 1,340,000 crowns [$359,120], as follows : 434,000 crowns [$116,312] for 

 fresh salmon, 501,000 crowns [$134,268] for fresh mackerel, and 405,000 

 crowns [$108,540] for lobsters. The increase in the exportation of sal- 

 mon and mackerel has been very considerable since 1876, principally 

 owing to better methods of preserving these fish. 



The principal ports of exportation are Bergen ("stock-fish," cod-liver 

 oil, roe, and salt herring), Christiansund ("klip-fish" and fish-guano), 

 Christiansand and Farsund (salmon, mackerel, and lobsters), Bod in 

 Northland and Vadsoe in Finmark (fish-guano). 



The following are the principal countries to which N(trway exports 

 fish : " Klip-fish " to Spain ; " stock-fish" to Italy, Austria, Sweden, and 

 Holland ; salt herring to Germany and Sweden ; mackerel, salmon, and 

 lobsters to Great Britain ; cod-liver oil to Germany and Holland j roe 

 to France; and fish-guano to Great Britain and Germany. 



Lobsters and oysters in Norway.— The lobster fisheries are also 

 principally carried on in the Skager Rack and the North 6ea. North 

 of Cape Stat very few are caught, aiid none at all in the Polar Sea. 

 They are caught in fish-pots. From 1879 to 1884 the average annual 

 yield was 1,175,000 lobsters, valued at 401,000 crowns [$107,468]. The 

 greater portion is shipped to Eugland. 



The Norwegian oyster fisueries, carried on i)rincipapy in the Skager 

 Rack, are inconsiderable, and yield annually about 240 hectoliters [679 

 bushels], valued at 6,900 crowns [$1,849.20]. 



Cod fisheries at Saint Pierre. — Reports from the French colony 

 of Saint Pierre and Miquelon show that the cod fishermen there have been 

 very successful in the amount of their catch. Five hundred boats have 

 been engaged by them in transporting their fish ; and 13,000 quintals 

 of cod had been taken to Halifax up to Sei)tember 15. The price was 

 less tliau $2 ])er (|uintal, a figure tliat is unprecedentedly low. [From 

 the French Moniteur de la PUcicaUurc. &c., 2d year. No. 20. Paris, Sep- 

 tember 18, 1886.] 



