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REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



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Table LXXIII contains a summary of the annual export. Including 

 tlie Faroe Islands, the total was 154,500,000 yearly, of wliicli 28,500,000 

 was dried cod, and 126,000,000 split cod. Of the whole amount, again, 

 75,000,000 were caught in European and 79,500,000 in American waters. 

 The amount exported was greatest from Norway, 03,600,000, or 41 per 

 cent. ; next from Canada, 36,300,000, or 23 J per cent. ; next from St. 

 Jobu's, 33,500,000, or 2ia per cent.; next from United States, 6,800,000, 

 or 4i per cent. ; next from Iceland, 5,000,000, or 3^ jier cent. ; next from 

 France, 4,000,000, or 2^ per cent.; next from Scotland, 3,500,000, or 2^ 

 per cent. ; next from Faroe Islands, 1,500,000, or 1 per cent.; finally from 

 Holland, 300,000, or ^ per cent. 



Table LXXIII. 



Table LXXIV gives a summary by weight of the split cod imported, 

 and Table LXXV by number. The amount of dried cod imported is 

 stated in Table LXV. The importation of cod duringthe last seven years 

 has varied as follows: In the West Indies, 4,900,000 (35,300,000 to 

 40,200,000); in Spain, 3,600,000 (35,500,000 to 39,100,000); in Brazil, 

 4,400,000 (10,200,000 to 14,600,000). 



In Portugal, Germany, and Denmark the importation has been stead- 

 ily increasing. In most other countries the amount consumed ajipears 

 to be tolerably uniform year by year. When the amount imported ex- 

 ceeds the average one year, it falls below it during the next two. The 

 considerable increase in the manufacture of sjjlit cod which has taken 

 place in Loffoden of late years, namely, from 10,000,000 to 11,000,000 in 

 the beginning of the seven-year period to double that amount at the end 

 of the period, exceeds by a couple of millions the diflerence between the 

 lowest and the highest amount imported by the two countries (Spain 

 and the West Indies) which consume three-fifths of the split cod, and 

 one-half of all the cod in other forms which come upon the market. 



The exports have varied as follows : From Xorway, dried cod, 7,700,000 

 (24,000,000 to 31,700,000) ; split cod, 17,900,000 (28,000,000 to 45,900,000) ; 

 total, 22,000,000 (55,600,000 to 77,600,000). From Canada, 7,800,000 



