VI.-EXTRACTS FROM NORWEGIAN OFFICIAL STATISTICS OP 

 FISHERIES FOR THE YEAR 1880.* 



By Boye Str5m, Clerk. 



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 [$6,220,648]. 



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 : 



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. Xy llcekke. Udgiven i Aaret 1862. C. No. 9. Taheller 

 vedkommendc Norges Fiskerier i Aaret 1880 samt Bei-etninger angaaende deres Drift m. v. 

 Udgivne af det statsiiske Ceutral Bureau. Kristiania. I Komrtmsion hos H. Aschehoug if- 

 €o. Translated by Tarleton H. Bean. 



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