BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 125 
“Sec. 5. No fishing apparatus may be used which will catch small 
salmon. Meshes in a salmon net, when wet, must have a circumfer- 
ence of at least 9 inches. No nets may be double. In every apparatus 
there must be openings so large that salmon not measuring more than 
9 inches in greatest circumference can not be detained therein. If the 
apparatus is provided with grates, the rails must be perpendicular with 
intervals of at least inches. 
“ Sec. 6. If the majority of the owners of the fishing right in any river 
wish the fishing to be carried on by all the owners jointly in order to 
protect the salmon better than according to the provisions of the pres- 
ent act, they must submit the case to the county board. If this board 
is of the opinion that no one’s rights will be infringed, it may enact 
rules for the mode of fishing and the division of the catch, which rules 
shall be binding upon all persons concerned. In such cases the main 
river and its tributaries are to be considered as one river. 
“ Sec. 7. If local circumstances make it necessary to have more definite 
regulations than are provided for in the present act, one or more county 
boards may make additional regulations ; but such regulations must in 
no way interfere with the principles of the present act warranting the 
free passage and protection of salmon. Such regulations, as well as 
those named in section 6, must have the sanction of the provincial gov- 
ernor, and be then valid as law for the next ten years after they are 
made. 
“ Sec. 8. Transgressions of this act are punishable by a fine of not more 
than one hundred crowns ($26.80), while all the unlawful catch and all 
unlawful apparatus may be confiscated.” 
The tables that follow show the amounts of salmon exported from 
Iceland, going chiefly or entirely to Denmark, the bulk of the export 
being salted and of not great value for exportation. There are no reg- 
ular smoke-houses in Iceland, so the little smoking of fish tliat is done 
is carried on in the kitchens in a primitive manner. Canned salmon 
and salmon packed in ice are also exported in small quantities. 
Table I. — Exportation of salted salmon from Iceland to Denmark. 
[The pounds in the following tables are all Danish. One Danish pound = 500 grams about 1.1 English 
pounds avoirdupois.] 
it 
Place from which 
exported. 
1630. 
1743. 
1784. 
1806. 
1816. 
1849. 
1855. 
1858. 
1859. 
1861. 
ffn sa.vi k * 
Lbs. 
Lbs. 
Lbs. 
Lbs. 
Lbs. 
Lbs. 
4, 800 
Lbs. 
5, 712 
Lbs. 
2, 368 
Lbs. 
6, 400 
Lbs. 
Akureyri 1 
Siglufjordur 1 
Sand&rkrdkur 1 
Blonduds 1 
2,384 
Skagastrond 1 
Reykjavik 2 
480 
480 
Eyrarbakki 2 
Akranes 2 
Bordeyri 3 
448 
672 
19, 080 
Stykkishdlmur 3 
Brakarpottur 3 
IsaQordur 3 . ...... . 
Total 4 ...... ... 
5 
3 
17 
28 
m 
~5,28o" 
~Ut2~ 
5, 872 
~400~ 
19, 0SQ 
