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such, rapidly moving living things would present.
The sight was worth a special journey to behold.
The comfortable existence of such a huge city of
voracious gulls shows how abundantly these Arctic
seas must be supplied with fish. Our fishing lines
were thrown out at every station, and never failed
to keep the anglers hard at work in hauling up
struggling codfish.
About fifty millions of codfish are annually taken
by the Norwegians for exportation, besides those
used for home consumption, and the vast numbers
that are caught by foreigners. The Russians take
a great many. During a short stay at Boulogne I
saw five vessels, each with a crew of about twenty
men, return from the Arctic cod-fishery. Quite a
fleet of such vessels sails annually from Dunquerque
and other ports on the French coast, returning,
after about six months’ absence, loaded with salt
codfish. I went on board of some of these French
Arctic fishing boats, and found on the bulwarks
the guides or pulleys for jerking the lines, and
learned that, like the Norwegians and Lapps, they
hook the fish in the manner already described. All
these millions of fish are thus caught singly. The
herring fishery (with nets, of course) is of similar
magnitude, but is declining.
We were told that the inhabitants settled in
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