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boat, oue owniug the boat and the apparatus, while the other is his 

 assistant aud receives ODe-lburth of the quantity of fish caught. On 

 the south and east coast of Skaue Zoarces viviparun and Ammodytes are 

 extensively used as bait in line-fishing. In the cod fisheries nets are 

 not used as much as lines. These lines are as long as flounder lines. 

 In the Sound they have generally 100 hooks eacli, and tufts 2 feet long 

 at intervals of 4^ or 5 feet, thus making the length of the entire line 

 from 75 to 80 fathoms. They have generally six floats and as many 

 sinkers (stones) attached to lines 3 feet long. The line is thus kept at 

 some distance from the bottom, which is an advantage. The flounder 

 lines have neither floats nor sinkers, but rest on the bottom of the sea. 

 The hooks are of brass. The codfish lines used on the east coast of 

 Skane are 80 fathoms long and have 120 hooks, but no floats. They are 

 generally set in the afternoon a few miles from the coast, and are hauled 

 in the following morning. The same kind of lines are also used in the 

 eel fisheries. 



On the east coast the flounder fisheries do not begin till June. The 

 best time for these fisheries, however, is in winter and spring, and for the 

 cod fisheries in autumn and winter. It is said that both the cod and 

 the diflerent kinds of flounders stop spawning in March and April, but on 

 the east coast of Skane the spawning season continues somewhat later. 



The salmon fisheries. — These fisheries belong exclusively to the 

 east and south coasts of Skane. In the Sound and on the west coast 

 there are no salmon fisheries, although salmon are occasionally caught 

 there with bottom-nets and codfish-nets. It therefore seems that the 

 salmon do not migrate from the Baltic to the Cattegat and vice versa. 

 Salmon are caught in the sea with seines, floating nets, and lines, each 

 of these apparatus being i)eculiar to some part of the coast. 



The floating-net fisheries begin early in si)ring, toward the end of 

 March or in April, and continue till the end of May or the beginning of 

 June. These nets are made of hemp, are about 20 fathoms long and 3 

 fathoms deep, the size of the meshes being 2.5 decimeters. They have 

 cork floats but no sinkers, because even without these they are suf- 

 ficiently heavy. Each boat has a crew of 3 men, and from 30 to 40 nets. 

 One of these nets costs 10 crowns [$2.()8]. 



The line fisheries begin in autumn after the herring fisheries have 

 come to a close, and are continued throughout the winter, as long as 

 the weather does not interfere with them. These lines (Fig. 18) are 

 constructed so that they can float near the surface, and are fastened 

 only at one end, while the other is free and is swayed by the current. 

 That portion which holds the apparatus in its place is called the rope, 

 and is fastened at the bottom by a large stone. Ater the stone has been 

 sunk, about a fathom of the rope is hauled up, and a glass float is 

 fastened to it. About 12 fathoms above this a second float is fastened, 

 and about 5 fathoms below this the line is attached to the roi^e. It is 



