VII -PRELIMINARY REPORT FOR 1873-74 ON THE HERRING 

 AND THE HERRING-FISHERIES ON THE WEST COAST OF 

 SWEDEN. 



By Axel Vilhelm Ljungman.' 



To the committee appointed to investigate the herring -fisheries an the west 



coast of Siceden : 



Having been informed, on the 3d Jane, last year, by the secretary of 

 the Eoyal Academy of Sciences, that, by a letter of His Majesty the 

 King, dated March the 28th, I had, at the suggestion of the Eoyal 

 Academy, been intrusted with the continued prosecution of the investi- 

 gations regarding the herring and the herring-fisheries on the west coast 

 of Sweden, I went to Stockholm in accordance with the wish of the 

 committee, as expressed by their letter of the 13th of June, and remained 

 there till the end of the month to gather all the necessary information 

 and make every necessary preparation. 



In the course of the summer, I visited the most important fishing- 

 stations on the coast of Bohus-lan to secure information and to make 

 the necessary arrangements for investigating the fisheries which com- 

 mence in the autumn. I left for Stockholm on the 23d of September 

 to consult with the members of the committee, and to make myself 

 acquainted with the literature of the subject in the library of the Eoyal 

 Academy of Sciences. In consequence of sickness, I was compelled to 

 remain in Stockholm till near the end of October, so that I was pre- 

 vented from making any observations at the beginning of the fisheries. 

 During the months of November and December, I visited all the more 

 important fishing-stations on the central and northern coast, 2 where the 

 fishing for small herring was carried on. 



As soon as I received information, about the beginning of the year, 

 that herring were coming in in great quantities, I went immediately to 



vestkust anstallda undersokuingaraa. Af Axel Villi. Ljungrnan. (Tryckt sasom hands- 

 krift.) Upsala, Ed. Berliug, 1874. [8vo,2 p. 1.74, pp. 1 1.] Translated from the Swedish 

 by H. Jacobson. Original " printed as manuscript " by the author, [i. e., not for gen- 

 eral circulation,] Upsala, 1874. 



2 By the southern coast, I understand the coast from Salofjord toTistlarne, (Reports on 

 Herring-Fisheries, p. 86 fr. 8 ;) by the central coast, the coast from Salofjord to Soteskar, 

 (counted to the northern coast by the old fishermen ; see Act Concerning Blubber-Refin- 

 eries, pp. 120, 134;) and by the northern coast, the coast from Soteskar to the boundary 

 of Norway. A somewhat different division of the coast has been made by Dubb, (Re- 

 ports of the Royal Academy of Sciences for 1817, p. 34.) 



