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good herring season. In 1906 Norway furnished Hull, 

 the leading port in the matter of curing herrings, with 

 35,000 tons of fish, worth nearly .240,000." 



Austro- Hungary receives the fish she consumes from 

 the great fish-producing countries of the North Sea. 

 She is also a good customer to Italy and Greece. The 

 fishermen of Istria must be included among the most 

 regular providers of Trieste market. 



After fresh fish, cured fish : herring and cod. 

 Germany buys each year 200,000 tons of herring in 

 barrels, of the value of ^3,600,000, from the British 

 Isles, Holland, Norway, and Sweden. To these 200,000 

 tons, or 1,295,000 barrels, we must add the national yield 

 of 400,000 barrels. This prodigious quantity of fish is 

 eaten in Germany. In addition to this the merchants 

 of Stettin, Konigsberg, Hamburg, Dantzig, and Memel 

 import nearly 1,000,000 barrels, which are at once resold 

 to Austria, Switzerland, and above all to Russia. Stettin 

 re-exports herring even to the United States. Libau 

 supplies St. Petersburg by sea, and Riga the interior of 

 the country and Siberia ; and the Russian importation 

 through these two ports amounts to 1,300,000 barrels, 

 worth ; i, 800,000. The principal providers of the United 

 States are Holland (1,000,000 barrels), the British Isles 

 (900,000 barrels), and then Norway and Germany 

 (180,000 and 40,000 barrels). Holland, the British Isles, 

 and Sweden all export to the States not only herring 

 but also cured mackerel ; but they meet with an active 

 competitor in Canada. Finally, the factories of Stavanger 

 export sardines in oil to the States. The ports of entry 

 are New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Chicago. 



Boulogne and Fecamp send 300 tons of red herrings 

 annually to Switzerland. Italy buys of Yarmouth and 

 Aberdeen, Greece of Holland. During the feast of 



