HERRING-FISHERIES ON THE COAST OF SWEDEN. 151 



on here with so-called spring, or two-men's, nets, but also with station- 

 ary nets. Herring here sell from 25 cents to 28 cents a score, but when 

 they are very plentiful they only bring 12J cents. The two-men's nets 

 have, daring the last year, generally caught from $56 to $112 worth of 

 the fish, and one of them is said to have yielded its owner the sum of 



•JjOOJ. 



The one and two years' old young coast-herring are caught in smaller 

 numbers in the beginning of the autumn on the southern coast and on 

 some portions of the central coast, and are occasionally found among 

 the small herring when these are taken. During the winter and the 

 beginning of spring, some are likewise found among the so-called sea- 

 herring. The so-called May herring, which is caught toward the end of 

 the spring and the beginning of summer, is often mixed with similar 

 small-herring. From the end of April till the end of summer, more sea- 

 herring are caught during the small-herring fisheries north of Orost. 

 Quite young herring, which are sometimes found in enormous quantities, 

 are caught as bait for the eel-boxes l near Hisingen and some other 

 places on the coast with " dog-nets," (nets with very narrow meshes.) 



Fishing for sea-herring, coming from the sea to the coast in large num- 

 bers, begins near Kladesholm between the New-Year and the 13th ot 

 January, and almost at the same time near Marstrand and Herinano. 

 On the southern coast, it begins somewhat later; on the Fjellbacka coast, 

 about the middle of January; and, near Strom stad, toward the end of 

 the same month, and is everywhere very productive. On the southern 

 coast, the fisheries continue, with short interruptions, till the middle 

 of March; and, on the northern coast near Fjellbacka, till near the end of 

 February ; but, near Stromstad, they continue one month longer. Near 

 Tjornekalf and on the southern coast, the great herring nets are taken 

 to pieces about Easter, as the fisheries during the latter half of March 

 are not very productive; but there have been years when fishing with the 

 large nets has been continued till the beginning of May. The sea-her- 

 ring caught during winter are generally of an excellent quality and bring 

 a good price, so that the fishermen earn a very good living. The largest 

 income from any single net was $2,520. 



Herring, spawning in the autumn, have not, as far as my knowledge 

 extends, been caught anywhere during this year on the coast of Bohusliin. 



Fishing for the herring proper is mostly carried on with nets of dif- 

 ferent description, and in some places with stationary nets. Other kinds 

 of nets are rarely used, although occasionally good hauls are made with 

 them by poor fishermen. 



The sea-herring when tolerably small is occasionally made into ancho- 

 vies 2 by less conscientious traders, although this has not happened this 

 year on the coast of Bohusliin. It scarcely pays to salt the spring-her- 



1 This is also done in Norway. Basch and Berg, Memorial and Petition, p. 37. Sars, 

 G. 0., Report for 1872, p. 35. 

 *Ml880n t Scandinav. Fauna, IV, p. 522. 



