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Part III — Twenty -sixth Annual Report 



The figures for each of the years, as given in the table below, show that 

 whiting have gone on increasing, practically without a break since 1889, 

 and whereas the number in 1892 was 56,240, it was 227,400 in 1907, 

 while cocl in 1892 was 44,013, and in 1907 the number was 114,013. 



Table showing the Number of Cod, Whiting, and Mackerel, and the 

 Quantity of Flat-fish, in pounds, from the Christianiafjord, 

 inside and outside Drobak, brought to the Market at Christiania 

 in the years 1872-1907. 



Year. 



1872 

 1873 

 1874 

 1875 

 *1876 

 1877 

 1878 

 1879 

 1880 

 1881 

 1882 

 1883 

 1884 

 1885 

 1886 

 1887 

 1888 

 1889 

 1890 

 1891 

 1892 

 1893 

 1894 

 1895 

 1896 

 1897 

 1898 

 1899 

 1900 

 1901 

 1902 

 1903 

 1904 

 1905 

 1906 

 1907 



Cod. 



Inside. Outside. 



91,836 

 62,263 

 72,039 

 181,181 

 61,448 

 63,904 

 89,746 

 69,368 

 29,531 

 35,400 

 35,712 

 88,694 

 87,548 

 110,868 

 60,947 

 34.561 

 37J76 

 42,436 

 45,376 

 41,443 

 44,013 

 50,322 

 65,219 

 65,996 

 70,414 

 70,868 

 8], 337 

 78,760 

 fl01,350 

 100,382 

 95,592 

 92,429 

 95,841 

 102,984 

 113;530 

 114,013 



150,056 



96,120 

 103,048 

 163,016 

 197,719 

 109,272 

 100,923 

 137,295 

 109,941 



97,854 

 110,594 

 140,966 

 196,982 

 172,469 

 115,642 



78,202 

 103,098 

 108,696 

 100,389 



91,742 

 116,429 

 123,057 

 181,124 

 191,285 

 227,976 

 203,929 

 213,013 

 218,295 



231,785 

 j 313,625 



346,297 

 I 388,894 

 I 401,850 

 I 466,080 

 i 436,373 



Whiting. 



Inside. Outside. 



198,860 

 18,820 

 51,540 

 86,840 

 44,880 

 68,220 

 41,280 

 47,280 

 18,720 

 14,800 

 12,220 

 22,460 

 28,560 

 93,800 

 41,140 

 25,880 

 64,480 

 29,020 

 40,590 

 50.480 

 56; 240 

 66,140 

 86.720 

 78,720 

 106,500 

 121,380 

 143,880 

 159,580 

 160,420 

 142,920 

 146,140 

 141,140 

 138,160 

 187,860 

 239.700 

 227; 400 



76.340 

 '160 

 0 



14,000 

 1,800 

 5,640 

 44,680 

 13,800 

 30,980 

 52,360 

 47,820 

 71,620 

 32,240 

 76,080 

 46.640 

 37,820 

 114,560 

 98,140 

 86.140 

 104,640 

 135,480 

 142,360 

 183,380 

 176,060 

 278,360 

 411,700 

 494,640 

 I 880,620 

 + 



988,'920 

 j 969,340 



876,700 

 11,023,960 

 11,004,000 

 1,157,180 

 ! 745,860 



Mackerel. 



Inside. Outside. 



23,002 

 34,515 

 548,217 

 242,220 

 275,543 

 43,393 

 1,771,924 

 161,297 

 165,357 

 80.487 

 43,227 

 85.154 

 58,'281 

 115,317 

 9,786 

 80,585 

 3,654 

 15.942 

 126; 335 

 8,042 

 27,772 

 33,311 

 84,696 

 65,996 

 59,632 

 52,263 

 106,746 

 200.819 

 86,664 

 183,783 

 181,520 

 140,493 

 389,020 

 395,744 

 502,371 

 162,311 



217,451 

 243.466 

 890^00 

 1,006,434 

 1,364,392 

 194,108 

 343,203 

 343,465 

 225,084 

 297,381 

 157,071 

 375,181 

 534,997 

 347,804 

 366; 723 

 495,936 

 402,838 

 241,253 

 252,589 

 239,726 

 266,720 

 225,780 

 329,614 

 278,855 

 228,848 

 290,580 

 548,157 

 493,574 

 + 



80,182 

 904,331 

 773,180 

 821,965 

 1,040,060 

 1,329,720 

 1,365,560 



Flat-fish. 



Inside. 



Out- 

 side. 



2,796 



710i 

 728 684 



16 

 13 



14,532110,968 

 4,470| 8,566 

 1,248 



3,024 

 12,180 

 8,772 

 6,924 

 4,012 

 5,522 

 1,786 

 2,708 

 3,344 

 6,850 

 1.824 

 4,812 

 3,750 

 1,012 

 1,060 

 756 

 0 



2,782 

 0 



724 

 1,314 

 4,430 

 l,340i 



9,13: 

 9,240 

 10,812 

 660 

 4,200 

 2,406 

 7,640 

 5,108. 

 40,856' 

 6,564 

 5,224 

 12,640 

 9,340 

 4,054 

 3,528 

 952 



3, 



10,156 

 2,564 

 5,306 

 3,986 

 8,934 

 4,516 

 + 



6,796 

 5,016 

 3,106 

 2,198: 13,074 

 4,454 12,922 

 6.608 10,168 

 7^64 32,844 



420 

 1,400 



* Records for May, 1876, not included. 



f From 1900 the figures include cod sold by various dealers. 



% Not available. 



The mackerel is a pelagic fish, and therefore in a different category, but 

 the figures show that it also has increased in a remarkable way. The 

 averages for the periods are : — 



1872-77. 

 1878-83. 

 1884-89. 



Average No. of 

 Mackerel. 

 194,482 

 384,574 

 47,261 



1890-95. . 

 1896-1901 

 1902-07. . 



Average No. of 

 Mackerel. 

 57,692 

 114,981 

 295,243 



The whiting is to a considerable extent a competitor of the cod, and no 

 fry of whiting were placed in the fjord, nor fry of mackerel, and the in- 



