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STATISTICS OF NORWEGIAN FISHERIES. 



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The price of the raw prodtsct varied between G and 11 crowns [from 

 $1.60 to $2.94J per barrel. Exceptionally, especially during one week 

 in the middle of May, the price fell to 5 and even to 4 crowns f$1.31 and 

 $1.07], and at Gjaisvser, even as low as 3 crowns [80 cents], but only a. 

 small quantity of fish was sold at these low prices, which were caused 

 by the circumstance that the mercbant-vcssels all had their full carp,o. 

 The price of liver varied between 10 and 12 crowns [$2.GS to $3,21] per 

 barrel, except at Mehavn and Berlevaaji;-, where the price ranged from 

 12.] to 14 crowns [$3.35 to $3.75], and at Sand Fiord, where it went as low 

 as crowns [$2.41]. For some daj's the same price was also paid at 

 Kjeivik ; and at Ingoe liver sold at 8 crowns [$2.14] per barrel. 



The following were the results of the cod fisheries in the district of 

 Finmark, in 1880 : 



Number. 



Fish caufibt . . . 

 Biiiiels of liver 

 Bariel.s of roe . 



23, C26, 000 



50,541 



291 



Total value, 2,089,732 crowns [$720,848.17]. 



The efliciency of the various apparatus employed will appear from the 

 following figures : • 



Nnmljer. 



("anjrlit with nots .. 

 Caufiht witb lines . 

 Ciiu<;ht witb trawls 



862, 000 



7, 808, 000 



11, 909, 000 



Besides these, 2,987,000 fish are stated to have been caught with lines 

 and trawls, without specifying how many were caught ■with each of 

 these apparatus. Two hundred and nineteen thousand fish are stated 

 to have been used for home consumption. 



The number of fish caught during previous years was as follows : 



As far as known, the cod fisheries have in no previous year yielded 

 as large quantities of fish as in 1880. 



Besides cod there were caught during the winter and spring fisher- 

 eries, 257,000 haddock, 99,000 pounds of halibut, and flounders to the 



