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Greenland shark, the walrus, seal, bottlenose whale, white 
whale (deluga), polar bear and reindeer takes place. 
The value of the above named occupations was estimated 
in 1891 as follows: 
The whaling in Finmarken.... ..... ... rave fereterers about $220,000 
he HUBS ce angen hace aie ee ecete etn nae: ma 250,000 
he bottlevose whalise.!.te es 1 .t- eee tictee «200,000 
The Arctic Ocean expeditrons: )- 2020.28.28 ss «« 100,000 
With respect to the export trade, reference is made to 
the statistical tables hereto attached, which were prepared 
by the Norwegian Statistical Bureau in Christiania, and 
which give the quantities and values of the most important 
fishery products, as well as the products of sealing and 
whaling exported from Norway, in the period 1880 to 1891. 
As will be observed, the average annual value of the ex- 
port in that period amounted to about $12,000,000, quite a 
respectable sum for a country of only 2,000,000 inhabi- 
tants. The fisheries products are also the most important 
articles of export from the country. Next to them come 
the products of the timber industries with about an equally 
large amount. 
PUBLIC MEASURES. 
It may be said that it is only within the last twenty 
years that the Government has taken any active steps for 
the promotion of the fisheries. Government superintend- 
ence, which, however, is chiefly to be regarded as a police 
measure, is established in connection with several of the 
large fisheries; telegraph and telephone lines have been 
constructed, postal communications extended and arranged 
with a special view to the fisheries ; the sounding and lay- 
ing down on charts of the ocean banks is proceeding rap- 
idly ; by means of official reports the public is kept posted 
on the progress and results of the various fisheries, and, if 
a large school of fish comes into a remote place, temporary 
telegraph stations are, if necessary, established there- 
