THEIR ROUND OF LIFE AND LABOUR. 73 
numbered 24,660,000 fish, and of that quantity upwards of 
14,000,000 were taken in the nets. The Norwegians are 
mighty fishers, industrious and careful, possessing all the 
virtues of their fellows in other countries ; the fisher folk of 
Norway number eleven per cent. of the population, about 
80,000 persons being employed in getting in the harvest of 
the sea. 
Much curious information about the social condition of 
the Chinese fishermen, and the economy of the fisheries, so 
far as the use of gear is concerned is contained in “the 
Yellow Book,” or catalogue of the Chinese collection in 
the Fishery Exhibition. We shall not, however, spoil the 
interest of what is told by any attempt at abridgment —it 
would require indeed a book as large as this to contain all 
that might be said descriptive of the Chinese and Oriental 
fisheries, such as the pearl-diving industry of Ceylon, and the 
sponge and coral fisheries of tropical seas. 
