XXVI.-CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION OF NORWEGIAN FISHERIES 



NEEDED.* i^niLtiijL^ 



[A Circular from the Board of Directors of the Associatiou for the Promotion of 

 the i\or\Yegiiia Fisheries. ] 



Our fislieries occupy a very prominent place among the industries of 

 Norway. The annual value of the fishery products exported from Nor- 

 way from 1866 to 1883 was as follows: 



Year. 



1866-'70... 

 1871-75 . . . 

 1876-'80 . . 



These figures, however, do not represent the total value of the fish- 

 eries, as a large quantity of fish is of course consumed at home, nor do 

 they include the income from the seal and whale fisheries. 



For the sake of comparison we give below the value of other products 

 exported from Norway during the same period : 



Average per annum. 



On an average, therefore, the value of the fishery products exported 

 Irom Norway was 41.8 per cent of the total exports. 



According to the census of 1876 the number of persons engaged in 

 tlie fisheries was 52,587, and this number has now considerably in- 

 creased. From the official reports it appears that the number of 'fish- 

 ermen in 1882 was 78,589, distributed as follows: 01,357 in the cod 

 fashcTies, 4,418 in the capliu fisheries, 2,760 in the mackerel fisheries, 

 and 10,000 m the spring-herring fisheries. If we add to tliese the large 



•-Om en Centralstyrelse for vore Fiakerier." From the Norsk Fiskeritidende, voL 

 ' ' ' ^'''°^''' January, 1885. Translated from the Dauish l.y Herman Jacoij- 



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