AND THE FISH THEREOF. 



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showing an increase of 20 per cent, in the number of craft, and 1 2 per cent, 

 in the tonnage, from 1871 to 1876, and an increase of 1 1 per cent, craft, and 

 7 \ per cent, tonnage from 1876 to 1878. There is, however, a decrease 

 throughout in the mean tonnage. 



Italian Boats engaged in the Fisheries on the Aust rian-H ungarian Coast. 1 876. 



Numbers of Italian Boats employed in Foreign Fisheries for 1876. 



at 35 — 40 millions of francs. Italy is, nevertheless, a large importer of fish, and consumption 

 exceeds production to the extent of 20 millions of francs : this is the more surprising considering 

 her natural position and length of coast-line, which, one would think, would pre-eminently dispose 

 her to take a foremost rank in this important industry. Thus, the export of salt pilchards from 

 St. Ives is entirely to the Mediterranean, chiefly to Genoa, Leghorn, Civita Vecchia, Naples, and 

 Adriatic ports, and reaches as much as 45,000 hogsheads in particularly good years. 



1 Besides some 4 or 500 boats fishing in extra-territorial waters on the coast of Istria, which 

 do not appear in the official statistics. 



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