32 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



smaller provinces of the kingdom, 489 persons are employed in them, 

 and that the value of the implements is $9,430. 



In the other provinces, with the exception of Sk&ne and Blekinge, the 

 lake and coast fisheries are carried on by a much larger number of per- 

 sons. The money value of gwiniad, Coregonus albula, and char caught in 

 lake Wettern, amounts annually to $27,775. On the Calmar coast, the 

 fisheries are carried on by 182 persons as their exclusive source of in- 

 come, while 689 having some other employment in addition, are also 

 engaged in them. The value of the inrplements used is $29,385. The fish 

 caught in the lakes and on the coast are either sold fresh in the neigh- 

 borhood, or are used in the households of the fishermen. As these peo- 

 ple keep no account of their labors, it has been found impossible to 

 obtain any exact data regarding the money value of these fisheries. In 

 order to reach some approximate result, the number of men employed 

 and the value of the implements used have bee*u ascertained j and from 

 these figures a tolerably correct estimate may be made regarding their 

 great value. 



2. The salmon fisheries. — These are carried on in the streams of the 

 northern provinces, from £he end of May till the beginning of Septem- 

 ber ; and in the western streams, ( Wiska, Atra, Nissa, Laga, and Quis- 

 trum,) from the beginning of April till the middle of July ; and on the 

 coasts of Blekinge and Skane, (in the south of Sweden,) during the 

 winter months as long as the ice does not interfere. The streams rich- 

 est in salmon, are tkeTornea, Lulea, Umea, Ljusne, and Angerman, in 

 the province of Norrland. !Next come the western streams, mentioned 

 above, whose salmon are more highly valued than those from the east 

 coast, and which are fully as good as the Scotch salmon. The most ex- 

 tensive salmon fisheries in Sweden are those of Elfkartlby, in Gestrik- 

 land, and of M-orrum, in Blekinge ; the former yielding an average an- 

 nual income of $11,110 ; and the latter, of $8,300. 



At present, the salmon is mostly sold fresh in the country, or, packed 

 in ice, is exported from Gottenburg and Stockholm to England and 

 Germany, and especially to Berlin. The larger portion of the salmon 

 caught on the south coast of Sweden, during winter, is smoked and sent 

 to Germany and Denmark. According to the most recent statistics, the 

 annual yield of salmon from twenty-seven Swedish streams is valued at 

 $170,035. The salmon-fisheries on the coast of Skiine and Blekinge 

 yield an average annual income of $33,330. 



3. The herring fisheries in the Baltic and along the Coasts. — These 

 fisheries, which are by far the most important in Sweden, are carried 

 along the whole coast from Kullen on the sound, to the farthest point of 

 the Gulf of Bothnia, exclusively with open boats, each manned by two 

 or three persons. The fishermen use both stationary and floating nets ; 

 and the best fishing is at different seasons along the northern and 

 southern coasts. On the southern coast, the herring-fishery is carried 

 on by a population living together in large fishing villages, and depend- 



