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EEPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



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The most important markets were : Spain, which received 37,900,000, 

 or 24.7 percent.; West Indies, which received 37,700,000, or 24.5 per 

 cent. ; Italy and Austria, which received 18,400,000, or 12 per cent. ; 

 Brazil, which received 12,500,000, or 8.2 per cent.; Portugal, which re- 

 ceived 8,800,000, or 5.8 i)er cent. ; Great Britain and Ireland, which re- 

 ceived 7,200,000, or 4.7 per cent.; Sweden, which received 5,300,000, or 

 3.4 per cent.; Holland, which received 4,500,000, or 2.9 per cent. 



Table LXXVI. 



1 shall furnish, toward the close of the year, to one of our newspapers, 

 tables of export in 1879, just as I did last jear. With these statistics, 

 and a general abstract of the year's fisheries as a starting-point, one 

 will have a tolerably accurate basis for judging the state of afiairs in 

 1881. It will, therefore, be very useful if the consuls render, as soon as 

 the fishery in a country ends, and also concerning the autumn cod fish- 

 eries, a short report on its results — that is to say, whether it has been 

 unsuccessful, tolerably good, or good. According to the material which 

 lies before us, the exports for 1879 will presumably exceed those of all 

 preceding years. The effects hereof will be traced in 1881, and, since 

 the Norwegian fisheries have given an unusually good yield this year, 

 the prospects of fair prices during the coming Loffoden fishing are not 

 promising, even if the other fisheries should reach the results of an 

 average year. 



