654 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



tain amount of fish and money. Tbe officers of the government and 

 clergymen received a stipulated supply of fish yearly. 



The following list shows the number caught, of which an account was 

 taken in 1804, at the Salzburg fishery-office ; these being partly used 



in the court- kitchen and partly sold or given away. 



Pounds avoirdupois. 



Saibling, (Salmo salvelinus) ... 5, 166| 



Eutte, (Lota vulgaris) 240§ 



Forelle, (Truttafario) 3, 909§ 



Asch, ( Thymallus vulgaris) ... 123£ 



Lake-trout, ( Trutta lacustris) 480$ 



Hucho, (Salmo liucho) 310 



Perch, (Pereafluviatilis) S^tV 



Waller, (Silurus glanis) 197£ 



Hecht, (Esox lucius) - 4, 8S5 



Carp, ( Cyprinus carpio and var) 2, 038^ 



Kenke, ( Coregonus Wartmanni,) (fresh) 5, 850 



Eenke, (Coregonus Wartmanni,) (salted) 2, 4G5 



Schleihe, ( Tinea vulgaris) 431 T 9 £ 



Weissfisch, (Alburnus lueidus) 40 



Schratzer, (Acerina Sehraitzer) 70| 



Brachsen, (Abram is brama) 



Alte, (Squalius eephalus) 198^ 



Gruudel, ( Gobio fluviatilis) 



Koppen, (Cottus Gobio) 218f 



Pfrille, (Phoxiuus Uevis) 62 £ 



Table crawfish 16, 452£ 



Soup-crawfish G5| 



From the archbishops, the fishing-privileges were transferred to the 

 crown; and of late years they have been leased to some extent to 

 private individuals. 



Exceptions are only made with regard to a few small bodies of water, 

 which convents or chapters have possessed as special grants from time 

 immemorial, or which fishermen have held on hereditary leases, and 

 which now, in consequence of the buying-up of all old privileges or 

 servitude-rights resting upon the lands, are held by the fisherman in 

 free possession. 



The archbishops had preserved the fisheries as their property through 

 numerous fishing-laws, as in the case of that of 1507, made by Archbishop 

 Leonhard Kreutschach ; of 1590, by Wolf Dietrich ; of 1767, by Sigis- 

 mund von Schrattenbach. For the lakes, there were special laws, which 

 have never been officially rescinded, but which have gradually fallen 

 into disuse. The Salzburg Historical Society has published some of 

 them in its reports, vols. V and VI, among others the law relating to 

 the Waller Lake, made by the Archbishop Cardinal Mattbaus Lang, 

 (1519~'40;) another one of 1567: the revised fishing-code relating to the 



