C^] TEE FISHERIES OF SWEDEN. 971 



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The herring fisheries ou the Baltic coast of Slxane generally besin 

 early n, s„r,„g, and the time of course yaries acoonlfug to hofber 

 spru,g ,s early or late. The beginning is made bv setting hott, nets 

 near the coast in March or April. At that season of the^ear ti^ 



00 cold for the men to stay ont at sea in open boats during he nigh 

 and theiioatmg.net iisheries therefore do not begin till the end of it n 

 or during the first half of May, and at some fishing stations not tin he 

 beg,nn,ngof June. Float.ng-netflsheries are then rarrieZ aU th "uX 

 the summer tdl September, wheu they come to an end, and bottom, ets 

 are agam used near the coast for catching spawning herrin"ihs: 

 a. -menfoned fisheries are continued till the autumn f torm.s br ng^hem 



21 "*^'^*"«.'''e'>- The spa wuiug.herring fisheries, especially in spriu- 

 are not very important, and the best fishing season is geuerJly i' s urn' 

 mer(durmg July and August). In August the fisheries arel^^. '^X 

 hmdered by the " blooming of the water," as the fishermen cal large 

 masses of alga, (of the family A'ostockace<c) filling the water i^e feh 



open s na'cef Z"'"" ^'^^^'^^ "^ ""''"' »''"-'- '» «''''" the 



opeu spaces. Herring spawning in spring are caught principally at the 



fishing stations near Blekinge, and they become more scarce he far ler 



e Z:r:L tT'r '" ""^ '^^"'"'""^'^' "' "^^ ashermen s :™ 



sn.1!^-,^ . f ''" ■""■""S """^ so'^e^l'at smaller than those which 

 spawn n autumn, but are otherwise exactly like them. The Sound be 

 lug which spawn in spring, and which Winther considers as a race of 

 Sw^bsb fiT '' '" ""* ^''"°''' "'^ S^"^-"y -="' l^erring The 

 iieriiug which si«iwn in spring in these waters, and in no portion of the 

 Swedish side of the Sound do the spring herring form the obi^ct of any 

 very important fisheries.." It is true that some s^al. herrbig ar 'clghl 

 all the year round, principally to supply bait for liue-fishfng but the 



?heTiLi:fr'" r?r " ""^ '°"-" """ "■« ^^^^^^^ ''» not'Lgt ' 



themul dle or end ot August or the be gmningrf^eptember^d last 



absolutely reliahlp r w .u ! ' ^^'^^^^- J^t"« statement, however, is not 

 uboiuieiy reliable. G. Winther states that on the Danish side of thA <r.,L^ +i 



«,. fc uomng. It 18 a common oocuirence with otber Bsh than Lorrinc tl,-.f 



the herrmg ,h,s pecl.arity shoold give rise to the opinion that these ,-o„o//,h ,„ 

 :n?S oJoO millr ■ H ""' '""°« ^''•^"" '"' -'^ '" '"■". " ^- ntatti' ; 



