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Appendices to Thirteenth Annual Report. 



NOTE VI. 



NATURAL HISTORY, NOTES IN NORWAY. By Mr W. E. 

 Archer, F.R.S.E., Inspector of Salmon Fisheries of Scotland. 

 In the following table will be found a continuation of the statistics 

 regarding my fishery at Sand in Norway described in Notes II. and IX. 

 respectively of the Board's Eleventh and Twelfth Annual Reports. The 

 statistics of the river fishings, as previously explained, are taken from my 

 own records ; those of the sea fishings are kindly furnished by Herr A. 

 Landmark, Inspector of Salmon Fishings of Norway. 



Year. 



Yield of 

 Sand's 

 River. 



Average 

 of 4 

 Years. 



Yield of 

 Bagnets. 



Average 



of 4 

 Years. 



Number 

 of Bag- 

 nets. 



Average 

 Yield 

 per Net. 



Average 

 Yield 

 per Net. 



Remarks. 



1880 

 1881 



1882 

 1883 



lbs. 

 3,410 



6,402 



6,635 



6,701 



lbs. 

 5,787 



lbs. 

 20,620 



28,010 



13,103 



21,934 



lbs. 

 20,917 



97 

 85 

 72 

 76 



lbs. 

 212 



329 



182 



288 



lbs. 



253 



1 Fixed engines 

 [ in river and 

 f sea, fishing 6 

 1 days a week. 

 1 Fixed engines 

 i in river and 

 [ sea, fishing 4 

 J days a week. 

 1 



1884 



3,212 





23,729 





82 



289 





1885 



6,170 





48,859 





107 



455 







1886 



4,478 





39,371 





108 



364 







1887 



5,626 



4,871 



35,483 



36,860 



149 



238 



336 



1 



1 Angling in 

 river. Bag- 



j- nets in sea, 

 fishing 4 

 days a week. 



1888 

 1889 

 1890 



4,231 

 2,697 

 3,638 





52,353 

 48,336 

 35,492 





180 

 172 

 165 



290 

 281 

 215 





1891 



5,873 



4,110 



94,292 



57,618 



209 



451 



309 





1892 



3,146 





80,643 





246 



328 







1893 



3,778 





60,909 





279 



1 



218 





J 



In view of the information given in my report to the Board for 1894 

 regarding the method and cost of fishing by means of bag-nets in Scotland, 

 it would seem desirable for the purposes of comparison, to refer to the 

 conditions under which such nets are fished in Norway. In the still and 

 almost tideless waters of the Norwegian fjords there is not the same wear 

 and tear of material as in Scotland, and it is not customary to have one 

 net on shore for every net in use, one net being considered sufficient. 

 The precipitous nature of the shores necessitates very short leaders being 

 used ; and the cost of working the nets is inappreciable, as they are fished, 

 for the most part by the peasant proprietors off their own lands and form 

 part of the daily work of the farm. Further, these nets are only used 

 for about twelve weeks in the year. The conditions under which they are 

 used vary in different localities • and as the district to which these statistics 

 refer is a large one, I have thought it advisable to refer to the Norwegian 

 authorities for official information on the subject rather than to give the 

 cost of fishing at the few stations which come within my own knowledge. 

 In reply to the inquiries made, the Inspector of Salmon Fisheries of 

 Norway states that the cost of working and maintaining such nets among 

 the islands off the coast may be estimated at fifty to seventy kroner (£2 

 15s. 6d. to £3 17s. 9d.) per annum, and in the inner fjords at forty to 

 sixty kroner (£2, 3s.«4d. to £3, 6s. 8d.) per annum. 



