f^"J THE FISHERIES OF SWEDEN. o-o 



salting-vessels, had to be thrown away. Other writers state th.t the 

 flshenes were poor during that period, and that abont the yZ 4,1 he 

 herrmg left the Baltic and went to the North Sea. JJoth Sarto ul • ud 

 Allen, however, doubt the reliability of these last-n-endoned sta" :;^t" 

 and Sartor,„s sajs dis.inetl.v that the best authorities do not sZk o 

 any u.terrupt.on of the herring fisheries or mention anything regard 

 ing a decrease of the herring. '' '^'-«"'™- 



By a special agreement between Denmark and I.ubeck the Tr.„w» 



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end. Th,s crcumstanec, that the herring should have disappeared at 

 the same fme when the Hanse fisheries came to a elosef seeL; so 

 strange that serious doubts have arisen in n,y mind as to wketheTthe 



r p :t:tTh '^"""v ^^^ ''''""■^- ^^ ■^"o™"- - --^nin w ': 



vl '^, t o , "' "' ''*■'' senevMi- been supposed. As late as the 



1 e filt '"' ^""''"^ ''■'"" '"" '"'""' "f '"« Lubeck prefect for ToST) 

 he flsheries were very good, and nothing is said regarding a dechne 

 owards the end of that period. But about that time fhe Han e Tow"s 



.xear I06O they had lost their foothold in most places in Scandinavia 



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seasons but l.ttle business was done, and the nun.ber of ,tr na,'™ 



facttrtt r "7 ^"''1'" "^^" ''■^^^- ^^ »'- '"-''^^ atten'u t X 



a acted he Hn° """^ "'" ''''"'"''' ^"" ""^ 8^'>«™' '™'«'. -Wch 

 .attracted the Hanse merchants to Skane, and probably trade was the 



greater attraction of the two, which explains the fact that theyt, uiL ed 



to vs, the coast of Skane even when the flsheries were poor t wtu 



easdy be understood, however, that when the Hanse meXnts Jho 



controlled eo.,siderable capital for fitting out boats for thc^M.cr c-^ Teft 



tnes arse and poor coast population; while it is highly imi>robable 



cumstanoe that the herr.ng left the coast, but to various other causes 

 prmc,,al.y to the fact that, owing to the want of ca;i d Ind 3"' 

 the fl^her,es were no longer carried on in the same .sp rit o enternrise 

 iS was the ease when the Hanse merchants n.anaged ^flairs WheT the 



and tie fl^r'" T'" '"""™""'' "'""^ '"-l-"- "esan to spring up 

 and the flshenes lost much of their former importance 



