Norway 1892-1907
A. Heaton Cooper, The Norwegian Fjords Painted and Described, A. & C. Black, London, 1907, p. 16.
The fjords being great arms of the sea, most kinds of sea-fish are caught therein, sometimes in very large quantities, herring being often in such densely-packed masses that quite a number of fishermen use large wooden shovels to transfer them to their boats, returning repeatedly to the harvest until the mass has dispersed.
