VII.-SHORT INTRODUCTION TO THE PROPER CARE AND MAN- 

 AGEMENT OF THE BALTIC FISHERY. 



By H. Widegren, iStocJcholm, 1874. 



THE FAUIS^A OF THE BALTIC. 



The fish living in the Baltic are either such as live and propagate ex- 

 clusively in salt water, e. g., the herring, the small herring, the codfish, 

 the flounder, and others, or such as must j^roperly be considered as fresh- 

 water fish, but which can live and jiropagate in the but slightly briny 

 water of the large and small bays and inlets of the Baltic. The fresh- 

 water fish which are also found on the coast of the Baltic and form the 

 principal objects of the fisheries, are the perch, the pike, the roach, the 

 bream and other carp-like fish, as well as the burbot. Besides these, 

 there are found in the Baltic several kinds of fish, which, like the salmon, 

 the grayling, the gwiniad, and the eel, must chiefly be considered as 

 migratory fish, staying sometimes in salt water, and at other times, 

 principally during the spawning season, in fresh water. 



In consequence of the character of the fish-fauna of the Baltic, the 

 fisheries carried on in its waters are not only sea-fisheries in the proper 

 sense of the word, but also such fisheries as are carried on in our Swedish 

 lakes, with which many of the inlets of the Baltic — especially those 

 which only through narrow and shallow sounds are connected with the 

 outer coast — show the greatest similarity in regard to those conditions 

 which have an influence on the fisheries. 



As we are going to give a short introduction to the care and manage- 

 ment of the Baltic fishery, we will first consider the fishery carried on 

 in the inner bays and inlets of the Baltic, and which, to distinguish it 

 from the herring and other sea fisheries, is by the fishermen called 

 "rock-fishery" or "coast-fishery.'' In this treatise we shall chiefly make 

 use of the latter name as more expressive of the idea, as this name 

 mentions the locality where this fishery is chiefly carried on, viz, the 

 coasts of bays and sounds. 



* Kort Viigleduiug for Ostersjo-Fiskets rlitta vard och bedrifvande af H. Widegren. 

 Stockholm, 1874. Translated by Herman Jacobson. 



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