■270 ANIMAL FOOD RESOUECES OF DIFFERENT NATIONS. 



1876 and 1877 nearly £3,500,000— a large amount for 

 -a country having hardly two millions of inhabitants. 



The following was the export of fish from Norway in 

 1878 : — 



Dried codfish 

 Klip fish, salted cod 

 Fresh or living fish 

 Other salted fish 

 Spring herrings 

 Other herrings 

 Anchovies 



320,511 centners.* 



819,221 „ 

 44,420 ., 

 61,644 tondes. 

 35,534 „ 



641,467 „ 



201,081 duntres. 



Salt fish is prepared there in two ways, as klip fish 

 flattened, or as stock fish and round fish. The prepara- 

 tion of klip fish was first introduced at Christiansund, 

 in Norway, by the English about the close of the eigh- 

 teenth century. ' In preparing it in this way it is cleaned 

 soon after it is caught, salted and carefully dried. If the 

 fish remain more than ten days in the wet they are unfit 

 for klip fish. The best salt is required to prepare cod 

 fish properly. Stock fish is not salted, but merely dried 

 in the sun and wind for local consumption. 



The old-fashioned plan of keeping the fish in brine 

 has been nearly abandoned since the more general adop- 

 tion of salting and drying. 



About two -thirds of the fish caught are salted and 

 prepared as klip fish, and one-third sun-dried, known as 

 round fish. The quantity of cod fish taken annually 

 ranges from fifteen to seventy-six millions. In 1871, 

 24,000 tons were caught at the Lofoden isles, which is 

 the largest and most renowned of the Norwegian fishing 

 grounds. 



The Russian fishermen buy annually from the Nor- 

 wegians twenty-six to thirty-six million pounds of cod 

 and other fish. From Iceland five to seven million 

 pounds of cod fish are annually exported. 



* The centner is not quite 1 cwt., but only 109| lbs. The tonde 

 of fish is 3-186 bushels. The duntre is a small keg. 



