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mitted to the Director of Fisheries for his report. Information 

 respecting fish and fish markets at home and abroad is collected 

 by the bureau, and disseminated by post and telegraph. A weekly 

 paper, the Fiskets Gang, is published in which all particulars are 

 collected, while consular reports and those of the fishery agents, 

 who are maintained by the Bureau in Hull and Hamburg, are also 

 included. The preparatory work with the sea fishing funds, created 

 for the promotion of a modern sea fishing fleet, is carried out by the 

 Bureau. The total capital is now (1914) £118,125. 



The Government possess a research steamer the Michael Sars, 

 which is used for practical fishery investigation in the waters of 

 importance to Norwegian fishermen, as well as for scientific explora- 

 tion of the deep sea. There is a fishery council, which is an advisory 

 body of nineteen members elected by the various fishery districts 

 of the country. It meets for a week every autumn and considers 

 the^budget prepared by the Director, and other matters of import- 

 ance referred to it by the Department of Trade, the Director or by 

 one of its members. The total value of the fisheries of Norway was, 

 in 1912, about ;f3.009-53i-^ 



Portugal 



The Central Commission of Fisheries, of the Department oi 

 Marine, undertakes the supervision of the Fisheries of Portugal. 

 Statistics are published annually in the Estatistica das PescaSi 

 Mantimas. For an account of recent development of the Portu- 

 guese fisheries see Klein Fischerei und Salzgewinnung in Portugal. 

 Mitteilungen des Deutschen Seefischerei-Vereins, Bd. 29, 1913, 

 p. 212). In 1910 the number of men engaged in the sea fisheries of 

 Portugual, including Madeira and the Azores, was 29,525. In fish 

 preserving and other shore industries a large number of persons 

 are eflgaged, in all probably not less than 70,000, that is above 

 I per cent of the total population. In 1910 the number of boats 

 was 11,533, with a tonnage of 42,431, valued at £385,558. The 

 value of nets and gear was £866,563, the catch of fish £854,014. 

 The Portuguese are a great fish-consuming nation, in addition to 

 the consumption of part ot their own catch, there is an import of 

 fish to the estimated value of £750,000 annually. The bulk of this is 

 salt cod (£625,000). Fishery products are the fourth most important 

 export of Portugal (the others being wine, cork, fruit and vegetables) 

 of these sardines in an average year constitute about 70 per cent. 



The number of Portuguese steamers engaged in the sea fisheries 



' For further particulars see, Norsk Fiskeralmanak, published annually at 

 Bergen, by the Selskabet for de norske Fiskeriers Fremme ; and in addition to 

 Fiskets Gang, referred to above, see the Annual Report oj the Fishery Department 

 (Aarsberetninger vedkommende Norges Fiskerier). 



