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There being, asifar as author and lranslalor are aware, no exact English ecjuivalent for the Norwegian word, the term "sltrsi" will be used tllroughout the work to denote such cod as have attained maturity, and are thus able to join the shoals of spawning fish, which can be taltcn with hoolc ancl line. l *the rlorlherrlrrlost range of coast, LhaL of Finmarlten, where tIlc fish taken are for Lhc most part small (i.e. belonging to the younger year classes), the fluctuations of the fishery are particularly abrupt.Thus the slatistics report a yield of 23.6 millions in 1880, while only three years later, we find the very poor total of 3.5 millions.During the lasl few years, from 1911-1913, the yield of the cod fishery has been unusually good. Norwegian herring fishery.The herring fishery exhibits perhaps even greater variation, both as regards tlle mature, spawning fish, the "spring herring", and the younger, immature "fat herring".The spring herring fishery, which is carried on from the Skageralc in the south to Cape Stat in the north, has, since the introduction of the statistics, exhibited enormous fluctuations.In 1866, the yield amounted L o over a million hectolitres, sinking, however, so rapidly during the succeeding years, that the total catch in 1874 was 24,000 hl., in 1875 only 208 hl.In 1883, the yield was still as low as 100,000 hl., rising however, in 1884 to 262,000.The years from 1891-93 show an annual yield of over ' i' 00,OOO hl., from 1894-96 less than 400,000.In 1909 a rapid increase set in, and by 1913 the statistics note a yield of no less than ll/, million hl., the highest figure ever recorded for this branch of the fishery.The yield of the fat herring fishery (the younger, immature fish,) exhibits similar fluctuations, amounting in some years (1892, 1896, 1909) to over a million hectolitres, in others (1904 and 1905) to less than 100,000 hl.By 1907, however, it had risen again to over half a million hectolitres, and in 1909 exceeded a million.