YI.-EXTRACTS FROM NORWEGIAN OFFICIAL STATISTICS OP 

 FISHERIES FOR THE YEAR 1880.* 



By Boye Str5m, CJerk. 



As the introduction to the fishery statistics for the year 1878 furnishes 

 a. full summary of the results of the Norwegian fishing industry during 

 the decade from 1869 to 1878, I shall on the present occasion confine 

 myself to setting forth the most important data presented by the sta- 

 tistics for 1880 as compared with those of 1879 and with those of the 

 above named decade. 



The total money value of the Norwegian coast fisheries, the fishing for 

 home use excepted, on the basis of the prices paid at the fishing-stations 

 in 1880, was 22,579,000 crowns [$6,051,172]. In 1879 the yield was some- 

 what less, namely, 21,340,000 crowns [$5,719,120], but in the decade from 

 1869 to 1878 the average annual yield was 23,211,000 crowns [$6,220,548]. 



The values here quoted, which represent the annual gross receipts 

 which the industry has yielded the fishermen, are thus divided among 

 the different kinds of fisheries : 



Cod 



Fat herring 



Sprat and other small herring. 



Great herring 



Spring herring 



Mackerel 



Summer fishing for pollock, ling, &c . . . 



Salmon and sea trout 



Lobster 



Oyster 



Total 



Value. 



$3, 360, 

 1,534, 



Per 



cent. 



55.5 

 25.4 



$3, 666, 

 1,038, 



6, 719, 120 



Per 



cent. 



64.1 

 18.1 

 1.2 



Average 1869-1878. 



Per 



cent. 



$3, 731, 

 1, 008, 

 90, 

 349, 

 272, 

 194, 

 406, 

 90, 

 75, 

 2, 



6,220,548 



60.1 

 16.2 

 1.4 

 5.« 

 4.4 

 3.1 

 6.S 

 1.4 

 1.2 



Of the total money value in 1880, the sum of 5,734,000 crowns 

 [$1,536,712] was produced by the cod fishery in the Loffoden inspec- 

 tion district, which sum is a little less than the average result of this 

 fishery, which may be estimated at about 6,500,000 crowns [$1,742,000]. 



As regards the catch iu numbers, the cod fisheries in 1880 furnished 

 a total yield of 68,273,000, which not only considerably exceeds the 

 average of the above-named decade, this having been only 49,200,000, 



* Norgea officielle Statistik. iV^y Ecekke. JJdgiven i Aaret 18o2. C. No. 9. TaieUer 

 vedkommende Norges Fiskerier i Aaret 1880 samt Beretninger angaaende deres Drift m. v. 

 Udgivne af det statstiske Central Bureau. Eristiania. I Kommiision lios R. Aschehoug if- 

 Co. Translated by Tarleton H. Bean. 



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