rilUKK-Sl'lNKD S TH Kl.r.lSACK. 



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wliicli tlic lu'iids of 1 lie lisli aiv- tiirinMl, niir of tli:' I wcj :i]i])r():irlics tlicin, tlii'V generally remain i|uitc still :\i 

 tislicriiirii keeps the Knat still li\ means t>( a slake. tirst lor a few inomcnts, apiiareiitl y uncouceiaied; Init 

 which is thi'iist into the Ixitfom, wiiile his e<}ni|)aiiion ' siidilenly a iish starts ii]i, easts itself to one side, and 

 scoops the fish ont of tlie watei- into tli<' lioat with a 1 joins some eomrade disturhed in the same manner, or 

 fine hand-net (Wis. 1(1.')). In this \va\ se\ ci-al hoat-loads takes its plaee in an army airead-y formed and advaiie- 

 niav be taken in a niii'ht. In l)eeend)er, 1SS7 a cor- in.u' in the immediate nei,i;iil>onrhood. an army which 

 respondent writes from tlu^ island-belt of ( )stei-,u-othland : like a lon,L;'. nio\in,u' wall i-oves alon^u' the bottom, at 

 "The violent storms of this antnmn have (lri\cn into first, as a rnle, in a cinde ronnd the light. Gradually 

 our creeks and i)a\s a nudtitiide of "pri/ifi" or -v//// the advancing wall increases in height, length, and 

 (Sticklebacks), fen' whicdi a lisherv has now been carried bi'eadth, while it circles hither and thither, as if to col- 

 on for some time. The Stit'klcbacks must have fed extra- lect more and more .stragglers, in cur\-es of greater or 

 ordinarih- w(dl this \('ar. fir thev are so fat that 2' ,. less extent, until at last, wdieii the army appears to be 

 o-ailons of oil ma\ easily be extracted tVom a barrel of sufHciently strong, it suddenly dashes up and assembles 

 fish. The owners of the strctclies of siiore w here the : beneath the light. Here the cru.sh that now follows is 

 Stickleba(d;s swim in shoals, esteem tliemsclves especial- ' tremendous, and the movements of the fish culminate 

 ly fortunate, for the Stickleba(d<-tisher\- takes the jialm in a strange confusion, exactly as though they intended 

 of all the fisheries among our islands. On the strip of with their immense inimbers to overpower and xampiish 



Fi^. lilt. IlirtVrciil kinds of tire-pans used in tisliiiii;- \>y Icrcldiirlit. 



shore belonging to a small crofter, for example, tlic \alue 

 of the i-atch has pro\ ed to be (jUO crowns (f;;."!), and 

 on the coast-line of a farm -2,000 crowns (tllO). The 



Fig. 165. SUcl<lebacl5-iiet. 



tiie lire. In spite of the hand-nets now plied, they 

 still rusli on, undaunted as before. When their num- 

 bers are so few that tlie fisherman does not think it 



shoals press on without a pause to their destinati<jn, so worth while to use the net there any longei-, he moves 

 that the fisherman may keep seining the whole day at ; to another spot between 50 and 200 yards off, or some- 

 the same place, and the catch in spite of this be quite ; times even nearei' his former station; and here the same 



occurrences ai'c repeated. 



The Stickleback bears different names in different 

 parts of Sweden. On account of its s])inous tin-rays it 

 is called jriijg, spigrj, and Magy, in Scania hornstagg, in 

 the eastern archipelago skof.y)igg\ Jionitagg, and hornfi'^k. 

 On account of its brielit and tin-like colour it is known 



as great in the last draught as it was in the first"." 

 In his annual report for 1869 Baron G. ('. Gedeh- 

 STitoM, the pisciculturist, describes the singular behavi- 

 our of the Sticklebacks during this fishei'v as follows: 

 "In autumn the Sticklebacks generally repair towards 

 evenin'j- to the shidlow water near the shores, whei'e thev 



keep still, resting on the bottom as though the spinous j in winter as tennfisk, feiinfisk med spjiif (Speared Tinfish) 



rays of the ventral fins now served as feet. In the I etc. In Gothland, according to Lisdstuo.m, it is coupled 



morning thev again return to somewhat deeper water. with the following species luider the name of haiiigi/l 



It is highly interesting to watch the efl'cct of the torch- or Jiunikgl. 

 light on them, wdiile they are at rest. When the light ! (EKSTRO^r, Smitt.) 



" See tlie Daijens Nyheler for the loth of Deceinlier, 1887. 



'' Qvod nomen "paullo urbanius" quaiu vulgarc Skitspii/g: Rktzius. 



' So called because it tlirives in small collections of water {lifiiii = bone, yyl = pool), Tn. 



