HERRING-FISHERIES ON THE COAST OF SWEDEN. 137 



or destroyed in the sea, 1 or perished in the depth of the ocean, or in an 

 unsuitable climate, 2 though there have not been wanting suppositions 

 regarding spawning-places which it was said to visit afterward. Thus 

 Professor Mlsson, in his report of November 11, 1826, seemed inclined 

 to suppose that the herring, in consequence of the injudicious treatment 

 which it experienced among us, turned toward Jutland and Loeso; 3 and 

 AxelBoeclc thiuks there was a connection between the Bohus-lilii and the 

 Scotch-Dutch fisheries. 4 Oscar Andersen mentions a supposition of 0. 

 N. Lobcrg, according to which "the northern great herring would be of 

 the same kind as the old Bohus-Liin herring,'' and would therefore, at a 

 later period, "have turned toward the north." 3 Among the professional 

 men, the opinion seems at first to have been common that the herring, 

 at least in the beginning, had gone to the southeastern part of the North 

 Sea; 6 and afterward the opinion seems to have gained ground that 

 there was some intimate connection between the Norwegian spring 

 herring- fisheries and the Bohus-lan autumn herring-fisheries. 7 



As regards the causes of the re-appearance of the old herring on the 

 coast of Bohus-Lan in 1747, after a long absence, there has scarcely been 

 any dispute, although the solution of this problem would be of great 

 importance. 8 Professor Nilsson and his followers suppose, according to 

 the views expressed in Handliugar rorande SillfisJcet, that those herring 

 which had remained over from the last great fisheries on the coast of 

 Bohus-lan staid undisturbed near the coast, " which, through war and 

 pestilence, had become depopulated," and increased gradually, unnoticed, 

 so that when they were " suddenly" discovered, they produced an ex- 

 tremely rich fishery, lasting sixty years. 9 Those who suppose that the 

 large kind of herring are possessed of an innate desire for roaming 

 about, see of course in this the ouly cause of its coming to the coast 

 and leaving it again. 10 Among the fishermen on the coast of Bohus-lan 

 the opinion seems to have been very common, at the beginning of the 

 former fishery -period, that the herring were attracted by the large num- 

 ber of marine articulates, which, as is well known, they prefer to any 



1 NUsson, Haudl. ror. Sillf., p. 66. 



^Sundevall, Haudl. ror. Sillf., p. 156. 



3 Handl. ror. Sillf., p. 16. 



4 Beretuing oin Fiskeri-Udstillingen i Aalesuuu, 1664, p. 34. — Oiu Silden og Sildefiske- 

 rierne, p. 129. 



5 Andersen, O., Bobuslens Fiskerier. Frederiksbald, 1869, pp. 10, 11. 



ti Lundbeck, O., Antekuingar rorande Bobuslauska Fiskerierna, i synnerbet sillfisket. 

 CDtlieb., 1632, p. 35. 



7 Haudl. ror. Sillf., p. 85, p. 101 fr. 22, p. 141.— Nya Haudl. ror. Sillf., p. XXVIII. 



8 Boeck, Out Silden og Sildefiskerierue, p. 83. 



^Nilsson Fornyad underdanig berattelse om fiskerierna i Bobus Liln. Stockholm, 1828, 

 b p. 28, anm. 



l0 Dubb tbougbt a periodicity iu meteorological aud bydrograpbic events was tbe cause. 

 — K. Vet. Akad:s Haudl. f. 1817, p. 46. 



