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grating libels, i/mil-al in i'ciniiark, liant-al in Sweden. 

 The lionwior" are one-armed or two-armed, furnisiied 

 in the latter ease with a long arm and a short one, the 

 former (the leader or lduff-(ir»i) to guide the Eel into 

 the homnia itself {halt), the latter (the check-arm or 

 gin-arm) to head oft" the fish and prevent them from 

 passing the opening. At the outer end of the homma 

 an Eel-basket (kasse or fhui) is set, out of which the 

 Eel cannot creep back. The whole engine is firmly 

 anchored to the bottom with lai-ge stones, and the bas- 

 ket is secured in a sled-shaped wooden frame. When 

 the Eel, on its migration along the east coast of Swe- 

 den, comes from the north and north-east, along the 

 south coast from the east, and in the Sound from tlie 

 south, the Jiommor must be j)]aced with the opening on 

 that side of the leader from which the Eel approaches. .. 

 The same rule applies, of course, to the position of the 

 (il-riissja at the outer end of the Eel-weirs, where the 

 weir may be lengthened by setting more ryssjor outside. 

 The season lasts through the closing months of the 



\N FISHES. 



year, dark and stormy nights and land-winds Ijeing 

 most favourable to the fishery. Most of the Eels taken 

 on the east coast of Sweden are sold alive to Germans 

 who sail in their well-boats (fjvasar) along the coast, 

 buying up the supplv. 



The value of the Eel-fisheries in Scania and Ble- 

 kinge, according to Lundbeeg\ was in the years 



1882 £8,240, 



1883 £11,604, 



18-84 £15,691, 



1885 £l4,846, 



the price fetched in Scania l)eing about Is. Id., in Ble- 

 kinge about lO'/sd. |)er kilo. The statistics of the 

 Eel-fisheries in other parts of Sweden are extremely 

 defective; but we probably do not exaggerate in assu- 

 ming that the Eel aft'ords our country an average an- 

 imal income of between £1(5,500 and £22,000. In 

 Denmark the Eel-fishery is still more productive, and 

 its combined annual value in the two countries certainly 

 exceeds £55,000. 



Genus CONGER. 



No scales in the skin. One row of Jn/r-feefJi Jar(/er fhini the rest and traiisrersetij compressed at the base, but more or 

 less sharj^ened. at the tip in the loin/itiidiiial direction of the jatrs. Vomerine teeth set in a card containing sereral roivs. 



lop R.ljri pop '^''■^ ^^ 



Fii;-. 282. Bonos of tho head in a Conger {Conger niyer). 



alsp, alisphenoid; art, articular jiarl, of Ilie lower jaw; bsj}, basispheiioid; ceh, ceratohyoid; ceth, cartilaginous parts of the ethmoids; rf, dental 



part of the lower jaw; et, ethnioiil ; //•, frontal; km, hyomandibular; iop, interoperculum; mp, maxillary (maxillo-pahitine); op, operculum; 



poh, preorbital (iirst suborbital); pop, prcoperculum; psp, parasphenoid; pt, entopterygoid ; qu, quadrate; R. br. I— IX, first — ninth branchio- 



stegal rays; sob, hindmost suborbital bone; sop, suboperculum; spet, supraethmoidal (nasal); splio, postfrontal (sphenotic); 



squ, squamosal; till, uroliyoid. 



" A minute description of this li.shery may be found in Lundberg, 0»i aljislcet vied s. k. hommor vid svensha Ostersjoknsteii samt 

 Oresund, Landtbr. Akad. Handl. oeh Tidskr. 1881. 



' Meddelanilen rorande JSveriges Fistcerier, Part. II (1888). 



