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370 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. [b] 



,1 1^ +^ +iiP iipirest net. For our circumstauct-s 



:ot'::f stn^tue »ii-n« are used exclusively, both a. floating uet. 



''l^eS rc'ra to the flsUiu« boats eaeU coast has its pecttUaf type 

 i,ven witu = ^ t peculiar to that province. The 



S:^L'rbolIh- 'three forms. The Sound boat is principally 

 ^sedtn the fishing on the Cattegat and the Sound ; the Bot^holm boat 

 which .-ralually begins to come into use on the east coast^ot bkane and 

 ^ems SesU^ed to t^ke the place ot the third form; the Blekmge bc,a 

 whteh, holever, is still iu general use on the south and east coast ot 



^''It m-esen^ the Sound boats are generally covered, with the exceptiou 

 ofihe To kov and MoUe boats, which even when ot^cons.derables.ze 

 are open, because they are also used for carry.ng '"-^er &c^ J^ : 

 smaller boats, however, are all open, as is the case w>tU all the fish, 

 boauled on the east coast of Skane. Most of the Sound boats a e 

 !tTesent built at Vikeu, north of Helsiugborg. The.r S-eral dtmea- 

 sions are as follows : Length fronr stem to stern, 30 leet lengbo^^^ 

 19 5 feet • breadth back of the mast, 12 or 13 teet ; depth of hold, 1.5 

 fe^t hei ht of the mast, 32 feet. Generally they have only one mas , 

 with a boom and j.b. They also have a top-sail, fastened to a pole at- 



tached to the top of the mast. , 



A comn.on open Bornholm boat, such as is used on the east coast 01 

 Sktie measures 20 feet from stem to stern, by 3 feet in breadth back 

 rf he'^t and has a hold 1 feet deep. Their sails are as a general 

 r lie, like those of the Blekinge boats. These boats are budt in Born- 



liolm 



Tte Blekinge boats vary in size, the largest ones being of the same 

 sizars the Bo"rnho,m boat^ They have only one mast and o"e «l.^ 

 sail, which can be hoisted and let down very rapidly. They are good 

 sailers, but there is always some danger of their being upset 



It will be hard to say which of these three forms is the ^e^t, as e^ch 

 has its peculiar advantages and disadvantages. It applies to boats a^ 

 well as 'to fishing apparatus, that even a poor boat, .n he hands of a 

 person who understands bow to use it to the best adN antage, can do 

 bet er service than a more perfect one whose advantages are not fuUy 

 understood. On the east coast the open boats will doubtless graduaUY 

 be replaced by covered boats, which are an absolute necessity for the 

 salmon fisheries in winter. . , „xi„„5 m 



The total number of boats belonging to the Skane fishing stations m 



