Fluctuations in the Great Fisheries of Northern Europe: Viewed in the Light of Biological Research

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…