34 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



valued at $177,930. During that year 5,257 cwt. of salt-cod were 

 exported from Gottenburg to England. The fisheries on the coast of 

 Bohusliin, including mackerel-fisheries, employed 351 boats, manned by 

 1,378 persons. The income from this fishery in 1871 amounted to 

 $97,790. 



The lobster-fishery in Bohusliin was valued in 1871 at $22,180, and 

 the oyster-fishery at $4,010. 



The editor of the Scandinavian Piscicultural Journal adds to the above 

 article the following items of information : In Sweden, the following 

 officers are appointed to manage the fisheries : ■ 



A superintendent of the lake, river, and Baltic fisheries, with two assist- 

 ants, and one teacher of pisciculture. This superintendent is, at present, 

 Br. Ejalmer Widegren, and his assistants are Br. C. Bystrom and Mr. 

 V. Wehlburg; while the teacher's place is filled by Baron C. G. Ceder- 

 strom. Besides these government officials there are special superin- 

 tendents over certain sections of water in some of the provinces, whose 

 chief duty it is to see to the proper observance of the fishing-laws. 

 Some of these superintendents receive a small addition to the salary paid 

 them by the provinces, from the central government, while others are 

 paid entirely by the provinces, by fishing-companies, or by large-landed 

 proprietors. The superintendence of the open sea fisheries (Kattegat 

 and North Sea) is- intrusted to an official, who is responsible to the Bo- 

 huslan authorities. The present incumbent is Mr. G. von Yhlen. 



The duties of the first-mentioned superintendent,* as defined by a let- 

 ter from his majesty, the king, dated February 12, 1864, and by a royal 

 proclamation, dated November, 1867, are as follows: 1, to inspect the 

 fisheries in the different parts of the country ; 2, to propose suitable 

 fishing-laws wherever needed, and to assist the local authorites in up- 

 holding these laws; 3, to collect and compile statistics of the fisheries; 

 4, to superintend the government Normal Institution of Pisciculture, 

 and all similar establishments throughout the country ; and, 5, to give 

 the necessary instructions to the other superintendents. 



* Dr. Widegren. 



