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the numerous inlets, and the sardine fishery 

 at Stavanger. The famous Lofoten Fishery 

 is carried on in v the spring, when the cod 

 come to the coast to spawn. It supports 

 about 100,000 souls, of whom about 50,000 

 are fishermen, most of them using small 

 boats each with a crew of four or five ; 

 these distribute themselves amongst about 

 forty fishing stations. The larger boats 

 use nets, but the smaller craft, of which 

 there are about 6000, fish with lines, each 

 boat using about 1500 hooks. A catch 

 of 200 to 500 cod-fish for a day,'s work is 

 considered a fair average. When caught 

 the fish are carried to the shore, split open, 

 salted, and laid on the rocks to dry in, the 

 sun. The heads are dried by heating and 

 converted into fish-meal and guano, while 

 the livers make the very valuable cod- 

 liver oil. All these commodities have in- 

 creased in value enormously through the 

 war. 



The multitude of people who annually 

 flock to a region usually uninhabited, or 

 nearly so, are mostly housed in temporary 

 huts. Here they live usually very peace- 

 ably' for an army of men suddenly 



