[5] NORWEGIAN OFFICIAL STATISTICS FOR 1880. 



Table II.— Table of export prices 1871-1880. 



615 



Fisb products. 



Average. 



1871-'75. 1876-'80. 



Annual average. 



1876. 1877. 1878. 1879. 



Spring herring per hectoliter. 



Great liening do 



Hening do 



Fat herring do 



Sprat do 



Dried cod per pound. 



Split cod do 



Ood-liver oil per hectoliter. 



Eoe do 



Fish guano per pound . 



Fresh salmon do 



Fresh mackerel, &c do 



Lobsters per hundred . 



RECAPITULATION. 



Herring fishery., products per pound. 



Cod fishery do 



Other fishery do 



Average per pound 



$5.05 

 5.49 

 3.07 

 4.60 



10.56 

 6.79 

 .019 

 .19 

 .027 



10.34 



$4.97 



6.01 



3.38 



5.08 



1.85 



.044 



.05 



12.69 



10.23 



.022 



.17 



.028 



10.18 



$5.31 

 5.78 



$4.56 

 4.82 



4.71 



1.85 



.041 



.038 



11.97 



6.12 

 .018 

 .18 

 .029 



9.38 



3.47 



!042 

 10.76 

 6.35 

 .019 

 .194 

 .025 

 10.72 



.034 

 8.09 

 5.87 

 .019 

 .194 

 .025 

 10.72 



. 018 . 024 

 . 038 . 032 

 . 057 . 051 



5.36 



4.29 

 5.07 

 1.88 

 .033 

 .028 

 8.45 

 5.36 

 .018 

 .194 

 . 025 

 10.72 



.027 

 .028 

 .054 



.028 



Table III. — Statement of the number of men engaged in the cod, fat herring, and mackerel 

 fisheries in 1880, and of the yield of the combined coast fisheries, excepting the catch for 

 home use, baaed upon the prices paid at the fishing-stations. 



Fishermen engaged— 



In cod fisheries 80,441 



In fat-herring fisheries 35,130 



In mackerel fisheries 3,719 



Value of the coast fisheries : 



Cod $3,360,526 00 



Fat herring 1,534,654 00 



Sprat and other small herring 138,343 00 



Spring herring 230,700 00 



Mackerel 186,558 00 



Summer fisheries for pollock, ling, &c* 388,1^0 00^ 



Salmon and sea trout 102,403 00 



Lobster 108,455 OO 



Oyster 1,506 OO 



Total 6,051,297 oa 



Table IV. — Detailed account of the cod fisheries in 1880, giving the number of fishermen 

 and boats, and their equipment. 



Total number of fishermen R0,4tl 



Fishermen furnished with — 



Nets only 25,809 



Trawls only 16,865 



Hooks and lines only 16,806- 



Both nets and trawls 3,094 



Nets and hooks and lines 2,518 



Trawls and hooks and lines 12,258 



Nets, trawls, and hooks and lines 3, 091 



Total number of boats 18,475 



* Including only the portions sold. 



