[2^ J THE FISHERIES OF SWEDEN. 387 



kept floating near the surface by four wood or cork floats. At present 

 each hue, n^easuring- 30 fathoms, has only three hooks. Thte ^ooks 

 of tmned-iron w,re, are tolerably large (8 centimeters long and wUh a 

 span of about 4 centimeters), and are baited with herring whilh te 

 cut back of the anal aperture, and are fastened to the hook'sIth^tUs 

 point passes through the eyes and protrudes at the side. The salmon 

 ines are set with a sufliciently large distance between them to preven" 

 their becoming entangled when they are swayed to and fro by the cur 

 ZtJf^ glass float serves to keep the rope up in the water, and to 

 P event the current from carrying it too far trom its original position. 

 These lines are set at a depth of from 20 to 30 fathoms : the farther from 

 rhe coast the better. As long as the water is still warm iu autumn the 

 hooks have to be baited afresh every day. When the water gets coMer 

 the herring keep three or four days without turning sour. If the b-iit 

 IS not entirely fresh, the salmon will not bite. In the autumn fisheries 

 lour men go out in a boat with from 40 to 60 salmon-lines 



During the stormy and dark season of the year these fisheries are 

 both dangerous and uncertain, but pay well because the apparatus is 

 cheap,- as a line costs only from 3 to o crowns [80 cents to $1.34] The 

 success of these fisheries greatly depends upon the weather. The sal- 

 mon also seem in some years to leave one part of the Baltic and go to 

 another. On the south coast of Skane the method of catching salmon 



wert Irught ' '^^'^'''^ '"^'''^^' ^'^^"'^^"^^' ^^^'^"^-^ scarcely any 



In some places on the south coast, during spring, salmon are caught 



with seines. These fisheries begin.ibout the end of March or during tbe 



first week in April, and continue till the middle or end of May These 



TZ'rr'l'?"'"'"' '' !'' '"""'^ '' ^'^^ ^^^-«^' ^^^- ^^^« ^«^^rmen to 

 carij on the fisheries, and give them in payment half the fish cauo-ht 



home of the seines, however, are owned by the fishermen. With these' 



semes there were caught, especially in former times when there was no 



. eg-ulation as to the size of the meshes, a large number of smlu 



salmon, weighing between 2 and 3 pounds, sometimes even several boat 



Joads. bmce a regulation has been made that the meshes of the salmon 



semes must not be less than 2 inches, the small salmon are serine Z 



more protected. The length of these seines varies from 60 to 72 fath 



om«, and their depth is from 2 to 3 fathoms. They are drawn by two 



hree, or four men. Of late years the number of these seines harin' 



creased considerably, and this circumstance has doubtless contributed 



r . ? ^ ^^ ^^^ '^^"'^" ^'^^"^« ^" ^^^ ^«^«t ^f ^^J^^^»e yielded 



Z^IZT f^' """"' ^^'''^-^'J- ^^^ -"^^-- «^- ^«^--n en- 

 nets 1,088, and lines 3,038. 



th?rT^Vf^'^'' FiSHEEiES.-Besides the fisheries mentioned above, 

 there are fisheries on a limited scale for some other food-fish and marine 



