310 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



Behriiig Sea is about 3,500 miles, and tbe Okhotsk Sea is about 4,000 

 miles distant. Some details of the business this year will be found in 

 the annexed table": 



Trips of the Noi-th Pacific codfish fleet of 1886. 



Name of vessel. 



Constitution i . 



rremont 



Jane A. Falkenburjgj 



San Luis 



Helen "VV. Aluiy 



Arago 



Czar (three trips) 



Dashing: Wave (two trips) 



Prancis Alice 



Isabel 



John Hancock 



Total.. 



Class. 



Barkentine . 



do 



do 



do 



Bark 



Schooner . .. 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



No. of 



crew. 



35 

 ,S5 

 35 

 35 

 35 

 15 

 15 

 16 

 18 

 18 

 16 



273 



Destination. 



Okhotsk Sea 



do 



do 



do 



Behring Sea 



Shumagin Islands 



do 



do 



BehringSea 



Shumagin Islands 

 do 



Days on 

 passage. 



150 

 164 

 137 

 151 

 155 

 256 

 155 

 162 

 103 

 130 

 115 



Ko. of 

 fish. 



85, 000 



140, COO 



100, 000 



102, 000 



170, 000 



60, 000 



265, 000 



108,000 



CD, 000 



92, 000 



41,000 



1,678 



1,232,000 



The catch the past season was taken from the following localities: 



Shumagin Islands 5GG, 000 



BehringSea 239,000 



Okhotsk Sea 427,000 



Total 1,232,000 



The fourteen cargoes were consigned to the following parties in San 

 Francisco: 



Lynde & Hough 



McCollam Fishing and Trading Company 



N. Bichard , 



A. Anderson &.Co 



Total , 



Number 

 of fish. 



440, 000 



4'!5, 000 



256, 000 



92, 000 



1, 232, 000 



It is diflicult to get at the exact facts and figures in this fishery, but 

 the foregoing may be regarded as an accurate approximation. The aver- 

 age weight of the fish this year was 3 pounds, which makes an aggre- 

 gate of 1,848 tons for 1886. The number reported is the smallest in 

 five years, there having been a steady falling off in the catch reported 

 for the past four years. [From the San Francisco Bulletin, October 13, 

 1886.] 



Codfish in the great markets of the world*. — According 

 tc calculations given in the Norwegian statistics of fisheries for 1880, 

 there were annually brought into the markets of the world, during the 

 period from 1872 to 1878, not less than 153,600,000 salt and dried cod- 



* " Klippfisch und Stockfisch auf dem Weltmarlte." From reports of the section of the 

 German Fishery Association for the coast and high-sea fisheries, No. 9, Berlin, Septem- 

 ber, 1886. Translated from the German by Herman Jacobsox. 



