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various kinds of entertainment, the 
greatest attraction being that of the 
moving pictures. The fishermen love 
to watch what passes on the white cloth 
from foreign lands and 
-messages 
strange people, generally very unlike 
the familiar surroundings of a Nor¬ 
wegian fisherman. In most of the ports 
there is also some kind of a hall or 
prayer-house where religious or other 
meetings are held and eagerly attended. 
Lectures on social and scientific subjects 
are most popular, and no speaker could 
have a more pleasing reward for his 
efforts than to feel the keen thirst for 
knowledge and enlightenment with 
which the fishermen hang on his every 
word. 
To gain an idea of the material 
profit derived from the winter fisheries 
we shall have to turn to the records 
regularly kept by the fishery police for 
the past seventy years. It appears that 
the average catch for the whole fishing 
season has been 15,000,000 cod weighing 
about six pounds each without head and 
entrails. The number of fishermen to 
share this catch has been about 20,000, 
which gives a share of seven or eight 
hundred fish per man. In 1914 this 
would mean in money about 500 kroner. 
Of course both the number of fish caught 
and the number of men taking part will 
fluctuate from year to year, and yet the 
difference is less pronounced than in 
many other parts of the world-—fishing 
being proverbially the most variable of 
all the natural opportunities accorded 
mankind. The lowest share on record is 373 fish; the largest, 1,184. 
The actual manner of dividing the output is very democratic, the 
skipper receiving only a half share extra. The practice of engaging 
hired hands is of comparatively little importance, almost all the fishing 
being done on shares. 
The output of the fisheries may seem small to those who live in 
commercialized communities where everything is reckoned in dollars 
The Youngest Member of the Crew 
Ready to Go to Sea 
