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name " Tjogsill," or score-herring, (in Norway "Sne&esild?) all herrings 

 of such a size as can be sold by the score are understood. 1 



The young of the coast-herring are called u Sillogon, V2 (herring-eyes,) 

 "Sillmdrj" or "Sillmyr?* (tender-herring,) and "Sillstagg," 4 ' 5 — in the 

 neighboring portion of Norway "Sildemaur," OT° ll Sildegnu } n6 — till they 

 are one year old, when they are called "Grassill? (grass-herring,) 

 "Sm&sill" (small-herring,) 7 and "Smdlodda" 8 (small "lodda,") till at the 

 age of two years they reach a. length of five to six inches, when they 

 begin to be caught in the large nets, and are known by the general 

 name of "Lottsill," 9 or "Hal/sill," (half-herring.) 10 The coast-herring is 

 said to be fatter and plumper than the sea-herring, from which, accord- 

 ing to some, it is known by the same characteristics which distinguish 

 the mature spring-herring from the sea-herring of the same size. 



THE SEA-HERRING ("hctfslottsill"). 



The kind of herring called " sea-herring," which during winter comes 

 in great numbers to the coast of Bohus-liin — more regularty, however, 

 on the southern coast and the southern portion of the central coast — is 

 distinguished by its comparatively large head, its more elongated shape, 

 and the great size ; all of which characteristics are, however, only dis- 

 tinctly discernible in the larger specimens, (called " storlodda? I. e., 

 11 great lodda,") which are found in small numbers among the medium- 

 sized, two-year-old herring, in respect to whose relation to the other 

 herring, however, opinions are divided. 11 



It is by some supposed to spawn at the beginning of autumn, (like 

 the " old" herring of former times,) because the larger specimens which 

 have been caught were usually empty, and would, consequently, when 

 it comes to the coast of Bohus-liin, be nearly half a year older than the 

 * coast-herring. At the meetings held by the committee of inquiry in 

 1833, the fishermen of the Bohus-liin coast unanimously declared that 

 the "sea-herring" ( u lottsill v ) " goes away from the coast" before it 

 gets mature ; 12 and some of them were, therefore, of opinion that it 



1 Easch, H. fy Bcrg,B. M. Betaeukning og Indstilling afgiven af den til Fiskeriernes 

 Unders^gelse i Christiania — og Langesundsfjorden ved Kongel. Resol. af 23 de Mai 

 1852, nedsatte Commission, p. 32. 



2 Ekstrom, Praktisk afhandling, p. 9. 



3 Nilsson, Handl. ror. Sillf., pp. 45, 70. 



Ekstrom, Praktisk afhandling, p. 10. 



*Nilsson, Handl. ror. Sillf., pp. 63, 70, 134. 



Ekstrom, Praktisk afhandling, p. 10. 



6 These and some of the following names are merely differences of dialect, and there 

 fore almost untranslatable. — Translator's note. 



6 Basch $• Berg, Betaenkning og Indstilling, p. 32. 



•>Mlsson, Handl. ror. Sillf., p. 46. 



s Nilsson, Handl. ror. Sillf., p. 137. 



sMlsson, Handl. ror., Sillf. pp. 70, 63, 66. 



i°Mlsson, Handl. ror. Sillf., p. 46. 



11 See what is Baid regarding the " Strdksill " — the " wandering-herring." 



12 Handl. ror. Sillf., p. 102 fr. 24, p. 112 fr. 15, p. 117 fr. 14, p. 129 fr. 33. Nihson, 

 Handl. ror. Sillf., p. 47. 



