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although the fishery on the Swedish side, perhaps, is somewhat greater it is 

 not much. Tliis does uot point to such an overwlielming fishery in the 

 Sound, as we might have expected. — Add to this, that we know for cer- 

 tain that the Baltic Sen and ifs tributaries, on the tvhole, are not at all rich 

 in eels. Accordiug to Lundberg the eel-trap fishery on the Swedish sliores 

 is not carried on farther than a little north of Oland and quite sporadically 

 at Stockholm; farther northward tlie eel becomes rarer. 



Lundberg (loc. cit.) gives mucli good information of the Swedish fishe- 

 ries, which are no doubt the greatest eel-fislieries in the Baltic. He has 

 further iuformed me bj' letter that, as far as it is known, there are 



in Scania: in Mahmhus Liin 2,500 eel-traps ("Hammer"), 



in Chvistianstad Liin 4,383 — (from 1883). 



In the 2500, consequently, the whole of the Sound along the Swedisli 

 shore and most of the southeru shore of Scania are included. 



In Blekinge are 6,803 eel-traps (from 1 899). 



In Oland (west and north side) are 2,444 — 



On the shore of Calmar Liin as far as Eastern 



Gotaland are 1,239 — 



From Eastern Gotaland to Arlw ar e 1,122 — 



Total. . . 18,491 eel-traps. 

 The produce was in 1899 in Malmohus Lau. . . 125,067 Kilogram 110,004 Kr. 

 — — — - 1899 in Blekinge 206,050 — 195,210 — 



On this shore, which is louger than the distance from Gedser to Cape 

 Skagen, we do not find so many traps then, as we have in Denmark, and the 

 yield per trap seems to be about the same as that of the Danish traps. 



In Finlaud, at many piaces, the eel is quite missing in rivers and 

 lakes. A special eel-fishery is uot found at all in Fiulaud. Eels are caught 

 only accidentally, together with other fish. 



In Russia the eel is hy uo means commou. Dr. O. Grimm, tlie In- 

 spector of Fisheries in Russia, in his book on the Russian fisheries, mentious 

 tlie eel among the useful fislies, but he gives no information at all about 

 its ecouomical value, as he has done al)out that of the im])ortanf fishes. On 

 the whole, they do not like the eel at all in Russia. Certainly, they do not 

 object to eating it, but they do not Hke to have it in the rivers, because it 

 destroys other fishes, which they value higher there. In all the rivers that 

 fall iuto the Arctic Ocean, into the Black Sea, and the Caspian Sea, the eel 

 is completely missing. The whole Danubedisti-ict in Europe has thus no 

 eels, unless they are transplauted into it, and most likely tiie}' will not breed 



