V -IMPROVEMENT IN THE SALMON FISHERIES OF SWEDEN. 



Extract from the Eeport of the Royal Swedish Intendant of Fisheries. 1868. 



lu 1855, tlie state of the fisheries ia iSTorway was taken into consider- 

 ation, and establishments for lish-breeding were introduced. At the 

 same time i^rotecting laws were enacted, which, in 1863 and 1865, were 

 further amended, in accordance with the experience acquired. The 

 most important rivers and kikes were subdivided into fishery districts, 

 and supervisors were appointed to insure the observation of the laws, 

 one-half of their salaries being- paid by the government, the other by 

 the owners of the fisheries. By these means the same practical advan- 

 tages have been obtained as in England. As early as 1865 the inspector 

 of fisheries was able to present testimonials from Dramself, Langenself, 

 aud Mandalself in proof that the protecting laws and the fish-breeding 

 establishments thus introdnced had steadily increased the yield of the 

 fisheries during the last five years; in 1868, testimonials of twelve more 

 rivers and lakes were added. With every year the satisfaction with 

 these regulations becomes greater and greater in Korway. If we com- 

 pare the results obtained in France, where they endeavored to improve 

 the fresh-water fisheries solely by artificial breeding, we find them quite 

 different. From 1853 to 1865 great sums of money were expended; the 

 central fish-breeding institution of the state at Hiiningen, Avhich in 

 1862 had already cost 600,000 francs, had distributed nearly thirty 

 millions of young salmonidie every year, and still the fresh-water fish- 

 eries were found in the same bad condition as before. It is maintained 

 by some that by the establishment at Hiiningen the stock of fish had 

 not augmented in the Seine, the Loire, the Garonne, and the Ehine by 

 more than a very few trout aud other Salmonidcc. Consequently finding 

 that breeding alone would not produce the desired improvement in fresh- 

 water fisheries, it was decided to be necessary, even in 1805, to enact 

 protecting laws in order to get a firmer basis and better results for the 

 work done. 



From this brief statement it is evident that, from fish-breeding estab- 

 lishments only and solely, a considerable increase of fish is uot to be 

 expected, aud, at the same time, that fish-breeding, in connection with 

 suitable protection and rational management, will produce equally favor- 

 able results as is the case with other industrial enterprises. 



It will also be seen how important a position protection and proper 

 system occupy in the several transactions, in co-operation j^roduciugthe 

 above-nientioned favorable results. IJence the conclusion is justified 



