VALUE OF THE IMPORTS OF Products OF THE FISHERIES INTO We give the statistics of this year, as it is the latest for which details have been furnished by the Board of Trade. None of the minor articles are now enumerated in the official trade returns: If we could trace the wealth of nations arising from their fisheries, it would be found to be beyond calculation. The following gives the foreign trade in fish of different countries : CHAPTER I. THE COD FISHERY IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES. The cod fishery of Scotland-The Grand Bank fishery, Newfoundland— Bultow fishing described-Preparing the fish—The Norway fishery-Lofoden fishery-Iceland-Consumption in the French colonies-Fishery at St. Pierre and Miquelon. ONE of the most important of the sea-fisheries, whether regard be had to the size of the fish or the number taken, is that for the cod. This fishery is carried on not only around the shores of the British Islands, but is prosecuted on a very extensive scale on the shores of Newfoundland and other coasts of the Atlantic, in Norway, Iceland, and other quarters. The cod (Gadus morrhua) abounds between 40° and 60° N. lat. It is essentially a sea-fish, and is never met with in fresh waters, preferring the depths of the sea, which it only quits to spawn on the coasts or the banks. The following return for the last ten years shows the average take of codfish in Scotland, at least as far as regards the quantity cured : |