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sprats and ' small herrings ' — large numbers of which are prepared and 
exported as 'Norwegian anchovies' — yielded 70,443 hectolitres, worth 
£11,000, the lowest quantity for several years, but the highest average 
price. An important fishery is that for mackerel. The number caught 
in 1889 was the greatest for a number of years, viz., 8,038,000 fish, 
valued at nearly £40,000. The average price was, however, much under 
that of previous years. The salmon-trout and sea-trout gave a higher 
yield than for many years — 603,922 kilogrammes, valued at £36,182, or 
an average price of Is. 2d. per kilogramme ; there was an increase of 
nearly 10,000 kilogrammes, and of above £1000, as compared with 1888. 
The lobster fishery was the lowest for many years, and little more than 
two-thirds of what it was in 1886. The number of lobsters caught was 
794,547 — a decrease of 60,556 from the previous year. The value was 
also less, but owing to the higher prices current, the fall was not so'^great 
as in the quantity. The value of the lobsters landed was £22,343, or 
£666 less than in 1888. The whole of the oysters landed in Norway in 
1889 were valued at the nominal sum of £231. The other coast fisheries 
(for lythe, ling, torsk, &c.) were of the value of £146,184. The value 
of the fisheries, other than coast fisheries, was £162,004. The most 
valuable of these are the seal fishery carried on at Jan Meyen, Iceland, 
and Greenland, and the whale fishery at Finmark. Sharks, which are 
fished chiefly for the sake of their livers, and polar bears and reindeers 
swell the total ; although it is perhaps anomalous for the two latter 
animals to be included under fisheries. Very full tables are published 
of the fish exported, the value of which last year was £2,532,000. The 
split and salted cod exported were of the value of £1,743,788, and the 
cured herring, £648,955. The value of cod oil exported was £318,166; 
of fresh salmon, £55,777 ; and of lobstf.Ts, nearly £30,000. 
The preparation and export of cod roe, as is seen from the figures 
referring to it above, form an important branch of the fishery industry 
in Norway. The Norwegian fishery journal * gives an account of the 
origin of the industry. While cod roes were used by the coast popula- 
tion as an article of food, and for bait by line fishermen, many centuries 
ago, they were not prepared for export until the seventeenth century. 
The price has varied much ; in 1763 it was one rigsdaler per tonde; later 
it reached 40 to 50 krdners ; last year only 13 to 14 kroners. It is 
proposed to prepare cod roes as meal for domestic use. 
X.— DENMARK. 
Captain C. F. Drechsel, the chief of the Danish Fishery department, 
has published a very interesting treatise on a Survey of the Danish Sea 
Fisheries in the Nortlt Sea and within the Skaw.-f Captain Drechsel 
deals in detail with the whole range of his subject, describing the char- 
acter of each fishery, the methods of capture, and the boats and implements 
employed. He has enriched his work with a series of maps coloured so 
as to show clearly the local fishing-grounds, and the distribution of t-ach 
fish, and with a large number of illustrations giving exact details of 
the construction of the boats, and exhibiting the Avay in which the 
different kinds of fishing-tackle are used. Dr C. G. Petersen, who has 
charge of the scientific work, gives a description of the natural conditions 
of the waters within the Skaw, and a list of all the fishes known to occur 
* Norsk FisTceritidende, 3 Hefte, 1890. 
t ' Oversigt over vore saltvaiidsfiskerier Nords^en og farvandene indenfor Skagen. 
Med Kort og Planer aamt et tillaeg af Dr Phil. C. G. Joh. Petersen.' Copenhagen, 
1890. 
