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take part init. A multitude of fishermen’s cabins—each 
of which serves as lodging for about twelve men—is erected 
around the fishing stations. Such a cabin may be seen 
in the Norwegian section of the Fishery Building, where 
it is used as an office. 
The boats are: Gill-net boats with a crew of six to seven 
men, and a carrying capacity of six to seven tons; long- 
line boats with three to five men, and up to three and one- 
half tons capacity, and ordinary small boats for hook and 
line fishing, rowed by only two or three men. The usual 
depth in which the fishing takes place is forty to sixty 
fathoms. 
It is estimated that nearly half the fishing time is lost 
on account of storms, but when the weather permits of un- 
interrupted fishing, the quantities that may be caught are 
perfectly astonishing. Thus there were, for instance, 
landed in Lofoten from the 13th to 22d day of March, 1880, 
nine and one-quarter millions of codfish. 
The entire quantity of cod caught in the great Norwegi- 
an winter and spring fisheries was, for the five years 1887- 
1891, estimated to average about 56.2 millions fish per an- 
num. Of such quantity about 75 per cent. is usually 
prepared as ‘‘ Klipfisk’’ (salted split cod), and 25 per cent. 
as ‘‘ Rundfisk”’ (round dried stockfish). 
THE HERRING FISHERIES. 
In the first half of the present century and as late as the 
close of the sixties, the magnitude of the spring herring 
fishery was relatively of such importance as to place the 
other herring fisheries quite in the shade. 
The spring herring contains roe or milt, and derives its 
name from the season of the year in which it is fished, 
viz., from January to March or April. It is fished on the 
coast from the Naze to Stadtland, between 58° and 62° N. 
lat. Like the cod at Lofoten, its migration to the coast is 
for the purpose of spawning, but contrary to the cod, th © 
