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important. While these fisheries were formerly of about 
equal importance to the country, the cod fisheries have in 
later years given a considerably greater result in value 
than the herring fisheries. 
THE COD FISHERIES. 
The great cod fisheries take place principally on the fol- 
lowing three divisions of the coast, viz. : 
1. The inner and outer coasts of the Lofoten group of 
islands, between 67° 25’ and 68° 36’ N. lat. 
2. The coast line from Stadtland to the entrance of the 
Trondhjem fjord, including the districts of Sondmore, 
Romsdalen and Nordmore, or from lat. 62° to 63° 20’. 
3. The coast of Finmarken on the boundary of the 
Arctic Ocean. 
From time immemorial the cod has yearly, during the 
months of January to April, arrived in the first named re- 
gions (1 and 2) in large schools, to spawn. In Lofoten the 
fishing may be said to recur with perfect certainty every 
year ; it has, to be sure, been said that the fish has in some 
years been present only in smaller quantities, but it can- 
not with certainty be affirmed that it has in any one year 
entirely failed to appear. 
The cod comes in to Finmarken in the spring months, in 
pursuit of the great schools of capelan (MZuallotus arcticus), 
which serves it for food. Whence it comes and where it 
goes is as yet an unsolved problem. 
The method of fishing, as well as the fishing tackle, are 
nearly the same for the different districts of the country. 
In the general collection exhibited in the Norwegian sec- 
tion by the Committee of Bergen for the participation by 
Norway in the World’s Columbian Exposition, character- 
istic types of boats and apparatus will be found. 
The Lofoten fishery is the most important and charac- 
teristic of all the fisheries of the country. Every year 
7,000 to 8,000 boats manned by about 30,000 men meet to 
