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the water till the end of October. Every fourteenth day the nets are 

 taken ashore and dried, while the poles and grapnels are left in the 

 water. 



Fisheries for Gyclopterus limpus.~Th& male of these tish is by many 

 considered a great delicacy, while the female is not esteemed so highly. 

 These tish are caught in February, March, and April. They are sakl to 

 spawn in the Sound in June and July. In the Sound this tish fre- 

 quently reaches the length of 2^ feet. 



Fislieries for Ammodytes.—The^e fish are caught both in the Sound 

 and in the Baltic, and seem to have been more numerous in former 

 times than now. They are caught in July and August with fine, snjall 

 seines. They are eaten fried or dried, and have a good flavor. The 

 (juantity caught, however, is small, and these fisheries are of very slight 

 importance. 



Lobster fisheries.— Lobsters are found in small numbers on the coast 

 of Skane. They are caught with fish-pots, and in the 120 to 128 fish- 

 l)ots used in these fisheries 400 lobsters were caught in 1881. 



Fisheries for other crustaceans.— 1^ ear the Kullen promontory a num- 

 berof Cancer paguriis are caught everyyear, generally during the period 

 from October to February. The boats used in these fisheries have a 

 crew of three men each, and the apparatus used is generally old floun- 

 der-nets. These crustaceans sell near the Kullen promontory at from 

 25 to 33 ore [6 to 8 cents] apiece. 



Of greater importance are the fisheries for Falcemon squilla. These 

 small crustaceans are not only used as bait, but form likewise a very 

 excellent article of food. They usually remain among the alga;, and 

 are found principally in the southern part of the Sound, in the wide algcc 

 bottoms near Saltholm, on the Danish coast, and near Malmo, Limhamn 

 and Holeviken, on the Swedish side of the Sound. The fishing season' 

 lasts from the end of April till the middle of September. These crus- 

 taceans wander along the coast; from May to August from south to 

 north, and from August till the end of the fisheries from north to south- 

 They are mainly taken in fish-pots, which vary in size, the rings vary- 

 ing from 1 to 4 feet in diameter. The apparatus consists of the fish-pot 

 proper with two short arms, and a loose "land-arm" in the middle, 24 

 or 25 yards long, which is pushed by means of iron poles, four to e'acli 

 fish pot. This apparatus is set in rows from the land, the opening 

 turned towards the shore. Near Limhamn each boat has from 18 to ^0 

 such fish-pots, costing from 20 to 25 crowns [$5.3G to $6.70] apiece and 

 ^l\l^T, ^^^''"^'' ^^^^ ^«^<^ can earn from 500 to GOO crowns [$134 to 

 4.100.80]. It IS only of late years that these fisheries have been carried on 

 to any considerable extent. In former times only here and there a fisher- 

 man owned a few fish-pots, and kept very secret what he caught with 

 tliem. Gradually, however, people began to find out that the income 

 irom these fisheries is important, and for the last 16 years they have 

 Den. carried on very generally on the coast of Skane, and with su.;h 



