430 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 
The first indications of the arrival of the herring are seen shortly before their 
appearance. Innumerable numbers of fish are noticed coming from the high sea 
and approaching the shore; according to the popular language, a mountain of 
herring arrive, and is followed by cetaceans and myriads of birds. Inspectors 
belonging to the fisheries then send by telegraph, to all the telegraphic stations 
interested, regular information, which is published, so as to keep the fishermen 
constantly advised of the arrival of the fish: some extra telegraphic stations are, 
moreover, held ready to be installed at any point on the coast. From the moment 
the herring pass the entrance of the Gulf, the telegraph indicates their slightest 
movements, which are attentively observed on the two coasts. Warned by the 
telegraph, the fishermen soon hasten from all directions with their nets, boats, 
casks and salt; the purchasers and the traffickers accompany them, and all take 
the road to where the fishing is likely to be most fruitful.. The people on the coast 
know very well how to appreciate the important rdle which the telegraph plays 
in their industry, and in the frequent cases when the capture of fish has only 
been possible by the intervention of the telegraph, the name of ‘‘ haering du tel- 
egraph” is given to the captured fish. 
Up to 1870, the telegraphic stations established for the ‘‘ Vaar-haering” fish 
were by far the most important; but those which have been constructed since that 
period for the cod and fat herring (summer and autumn herring) have taken the 
first place, and now surpass the former as much in regard to extent as to import- 
ance. The cod and fat herring fishing is carried on in all the fishing grounds 
along the coast, from Aalesund to Christiansund, near the Loffoden islands, and 
on the coasts of the two sides of North Cape, as far as the Russian frontier. It - 
also employs about 40,000 men. ‘This fishery would evidently not be such 
a source of wealth to the thinly scattered population, if it were not for the tele- 
graph which continually apprises them of the approach of the shoals of fish. 
The importance of the telegraph is felt especially in autumn, when the fat herring 
enter the fiords in large numbers. 
Apart from the information given concerning the movements of the shoals 
of fish, the progress of the fishing, the price of the fish, etc., are also sent by tel- 
egraph to the different fisheries, and to the cities interested. Furthermore, then 
telegraph forwards, each day during the fishing season, meteorological bulletins, 
information concerning the direction and force of the wind, the state of the sea, 
the temperature, the probability of storms, etc., which is of inestimable value to 
the residents on the sea shore. 
The telegraph is in use three or four months of the year for cod fishing. 
There are nine telegraphic stations called de poisson, and four movable stations, 
which are transferred from Loffoden to Finmark, for this fishing alone. Besides 
these, six or nine telegraphic fish stations, and one or two extra stations in the 
districts of Bergen and Stavanger, remain in active service two or three months 
in each year, for the Waar-Haering fishery, in addition to which, more than 
twenty stations re in use during the whole year for the cod and large and fat 
herring fisheries. 
