138 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



THE CODFISHERIES ON THE COAST OF NORWAY. 



[From Fiskeri Tidende, No. 1, January, 188 J.] 



Codfish are very common all along the coasts of Xorway. A pecu- 

 liar variety of the codfish, the u slcreV (winter, spring - , or sea-cod), how- 

 ever, keeps away from the coast the greater part of the year, visiting it 

 only at certain seasons, but then in very large numbers. It is princi- 

 pally caught near the Vestfiord, where it gives rise to the Loffoden fish- 

 eries, whilst between Stat and the Trondhjems fiord, especially near Sond- 

 more it gives rise to the so-called Romsdals fisheries. At all these places 

 the "sfcm" makes its appearance from the end of January till the begin- 

 ning of April, for the purpose of spawning on the coast banks whose 

 water has been warmed by the currents of the sea. The spawn floats 

 about near the surface of the water, where the youngfish are also hatched. 

 Other sea-cod fisheries, the Capelau fisheries, are annually carried on 

 along the coasts of Finmarken. The cod caught here are not spawning 

 fish, but approach the coast for the purpose of eating the capelans (hence 

 the name), a fish of the trout family which comes near the coast about 

 this time for the purpose of spawning. The fisheries are carried on from 

 March to May, and about 60,000 persons gather annually at the fishing 

 stations during the season, partly for the purpose of fishing and partly 

 to buy and prepare fish. 



FISHING FOR SHAH IN SOUTH AMERICAN WATERS. 



[From Gloucester Telegraph, June 25, 1^42.] 



The "Fountain,' 1 Captain Norwood, arrived on Sunday, and the 

 "Delta," Captain Marchant, on Tuesday, each with 200 barrels of shad. 

 These vessels sailed from Gloucester for Buenos Ayres in the early pari 

 of October last, and have been absenc about eight months and a half. 

 They were obliged to be idle in the La Plata River full forty days be- 

 fore they could obtain permission to fish ; had this not been the ease, 

 they would undoubtedly have done well — at least they would have made 

 saving voyages. 



