APPENDIX J: NORWAY 



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The salmon and sea-traut fisheries here taken account of, refer only to the coast- 

 fisheries, the river and fresh-water salmon fisheries not being included. 



"Other species" are chiefly the green cod, halibut, ling, torsk etc. They form the 

 main species of the summer coast-fishery and have increased greatly in value (probably in 

 quantity also) within recent years. The quantities are not given. Comparing the total 

 value of the Norwegian fisheries, as shown in the last column of the Table IV with the 

 values for these species, we see that the increase in the total is in great part due to the 

 increase in these species. 



Though no record of it is kept, the plaice is probably included amongst these species, 

 and a few words may be said concerning it here. The plaice-fishery has been carried on 

 from time immemorial in the southern part of the country — in the north, only during 

 the past fifteen years (4, p. 138). Although the Norwegian coast is not suited for plaice 

 and the quantities taken, so far as known, are small in comparison with those taken 

 elsewhere, yet the possibilities of an occasional plaice fishery seem to be considerable. Accor- 

 ding to Hjort and Dahl, some 200,000 kg. (4,000 cwt.) passed through Trondhjem alone 

 during 1897. These plaice are of the largest size (from 50 to 70 cm.), and as many as 

 50 fish weighing 1 tende (ca. 220 Eng. lbs.) can be taken in one haul. The spring is the 

 season when they are most taken and is said to be the spawning-time (March, April). 

 The fishing is prosecuted by means of spears and nets (gill-nets with mesh S'A in. from 

 knot to knot). 

 Fisheries in the The relative proportions of the fisheries in the different coastal regions, together with 

 diifercnt coastal j.jjg ^jjjgf figheries lu cach, are approximately as follows: 



regions 



Table Ti. Principal Norwegian Fisheries 



Eegion 



Chief fisheries 



Proportion of 

 total fisheries 



Skager Eak 



North Sea. 



Norwegian Sea 



Arctic Sea 



Mackerel 30 »/o ; Salmon, 13 »/o 



Lobster, 24 «/o ; Herring, 120/0 



Spring and mixed Herring, 40 — 50 "/o; 

 Mackerel, 3—10 "/o 



Summer (fat) Herring, 0—10 "/o 



Sprat and small Herring, 12 "/o 



Cod ("Skrei"), :>-9%; Lobster, 4''/o; Sal- 

 mon, 5 — 9 "lo ; Summer fishing of Green 

 Cod etc. 10 % 



Cod ("Skrei"), 50—60 "/o 



Summer (fatl Herring, 13—20 "lo 



Winter (large) Herring, 10—13 "lo 



Summer-fishing of Green Cod etc. 15 % . . 



Cod ("eapelan" or "Lodde") 70— 74''/û. . . . 

 Summer-fishing of Green Cod etc. 20 — 24 "lo 



3- 6"lo 



. 15-20 "lo 



.55— 65 0/0 



. . 14—19 0/0 



osFshore Fishing The fishlug bcyoud the fringe of fjords and islands is kept distinct in the statistics 

 from the main fisheries. The following table shows, that these off'shore fisheries are of 

 considerable importance and value. 



