XI -THE NORWEGIAN FISHERIES IN 1883, WITH STATISTICS 

 OF PREVIOUS YEARS.* 



The cod fisheries near Spitzbeigeu proved a complete failure. The 

 Tromsoe Fishery Association reports as follows : '^ This fishery seems to 

 be still more unreliable than the capelan fisheries. Many fishermen 

 believe that we have entered a period, which possibly may last several 

 years, when the cod will stay away entirely from Spitzbergen." Tromsoe 

 equipped 10 vessels for the cod fisheries. The other vessels engaged 

 in these fisheries came from the followiag places : 1 from Trondhjem, 

 2 from Christiansund, 2 from Aalesund, 1 from Arendal, and 2 from 

 Hammerfest. 



The bank fisheries near Aalesund — (Communicated by Consul 

 M. Hansen). — In the winter fisheries there were engaged 90 Norwegian 

 vessels, with a total crew of 747 men, and the number of fish caught 

 by these vessels was 465,200. Of Swedish vessels there were 25, with 

 a total crew of 250 men ; tlie number of fish caught by these was 161,200. 



In the summer fisheries at Storeggen there were engaged 22 ves- 

 sels, 21 Norwegian and 1 Swedish, with a total crew of 270 men. The 

 following quantity of fish was caught by these vessels : 1,272,000 kilo- 

 grams ling, 157,000 kilograms torsk, 814 hectoliters liver, and 246 hecto- 

 liters roe, the total yield representing a value of 155,548 crowns [about 

 $41,686.86]. The yield of klip-fish of both fisheries would therefore be 

 about 1,100,000 kilograms. 



The winter cod fisheries in the Stavanger district are said to have 

 yielded about 200,000 cod. 



The Havbro cod fisheries (fisheries on the iSanks in the Polar Sea) 

 were carried on by a vessel from Tromsoe, as an experiment by the fish- 

 ery association of that town. The yield amounted only to 3,500 cod. 

 This small quantity, it is said, was principally owing to the lack of fresh 

 bait. 



The Iceland cod fisheries. — From information received by the 

 editor of this journal it appears that 23 vessels from various Norwe- 

 gian ports were engaged in these fisheries. The total yield was 200,000 

 cod, the greater portion of which was sold in England. The largest 



*" Norshe FisTcerier, 1883." From Norsh Fiskeritidende, Vol. III. Bergen, January, 

 1884. Translated from the Danish by Herman Jacobson. 



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