410 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



Tablk III. — Record of distribution of shad fry made from April 30 to Jtme 11, 1885, by 



Battery Station, Maryland, 



1 By William Hamlen. 



2 By F. L. Donnelly. 



* By Sauerhoff & Tolbert 

 4 ByG. H. Tolbert. 

 *By W. P. Sauerhoff. 



•Delivered to N. Simmons. 

 1 Delivered to ear No. 3. 



* This deposit was of eggs almost on the point of 

 hatching. 



135.-SAL.TING ROE I!V NORWAY.* 



Roe did not become an article of commerce in Norway until the sec- 

 ond half of the seventeenth century. About the year 1650 the quantity 

 of roe annually exported from Bergen was ouly 9 barrels, and from 

 Troudbjem in 1665, about 200 barrels. At the close of the seventeenth 

 century Bergen annually exported 800 barrels, Christiansund 100, and 

 Trondbjem 700. About the middle of the eighteenth century the quan- 

 tity of roe exported from Norway had increased to 8,000 barrels per 

 year, and toward the end of the century to nearly 13,000 barrels. From 

 J 830 to 1850 it was a little above 20,000; from 1851 to 1865, about 

 30.000, and from 1866 to 1875, about 40,000 barrels annually. Since 

 then it has risen to 50,000, and in 1880 to 70,000 barrels. On an aver- 

 age since the middle of the last century one barrel of roe has been ex- 

 ported annually to a thousand kilograms offish. 



* ii Salinin<i af Eogn." From the Norsk Fish ri t idende, vol. iv, No. 1, Bergen, January, 

 18b."). Translated from the Danish by Herman Jacohson. 



