VI.—WHAT SHOULD BE DONE BY THE GOVERNMENT WITH 
REGARD TO THE GREAT BOHUS-LAN HERRING FISHERIES. 
A MEMORIAL ADDRESSED TO THE COUNCIL OF STATE AND THE HEAD | 
OF THE ROYAL CIVIL DEPARTMENT. 
By AXEL VILHELM LJUNGMAN. 
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My JbMG OR ONS! oad SGooboR Do00 Con Buna pH aoe conmOuED EEDEUBEGa” SaeEaseuose: 3 
See VAL kin vol. Can CLOUSHPIACES soc ore re s:0i5 isi =p nel ane wie ciara a sais wise sine ctenies 4 
APLLEMOVAN Cran eCLOUSTOCKS, OCC onic janseleceriecoccmnlcinse ass cae oes Sesiseseens 4 
5. Introduction of a different system of weights and measures.......---..---- 5 
6; Preparation of the herring for the market... 2.00.02. 22.252 22s thes Sock wees 6 
7. Regular postal service between the fishing stations and principal cities. ..-. 8 
8. More telegraph stations along the coast... .-.--...--:....220 eeecee eter eoee 8 
Daebetter allroad COUNeChlON saQ.-.cis so -reciie a dicice os tices soe neo aicieeianee 10 
AM eC SOCIAENeO MA ULONS Mm eteetsinr aiatetsinjerciciecicin sistent isle ni oe pacle Soe ess rience 17 
APPENDIX J.—Attempts to fish with drag-nets* ........---. IBRUN MERU 21 
(1.) The importance of such attempts for science and trade.......--.-..----- 21 
(2.), The proper way to carry out such attempts .. ........---.2---25 2-2 -e ee 22 
(3.) The introduction of drag-nets in the herring fisheries in the Skagerack.. 23 
(4.) The use of drag-nets during a possible future great herring period ...----. 24 
' APPENDIX II.—Sanitary regulations during the herring fisheries..........-...- 26 
THE DUTY OF THE GOVERNMENT WITH REGARD TO THE 
GREAT BOHUS-LAN HERRING FISHERIES.t 
{A memorial addressed to the Department of the Interior by Axel Vilhelm Ljungman. ] 
As the course of the so-called “landing” of the herring near the coast 
of Bobus-lin agrees in every particular with the experience of former 
herring periods, and our knowledge of the development of the great 
Bohus-liin fisheries during former centuries, we are justified in looking 
forward with a tolerable degree of certainty to the growth of these 
fisheries and their continuance for thirty or forty years; and as both 
*The drag-net so frequently referred to in the following pages is probably the form 
of gill-net so extensively used in Holland, Germany, and Scotland.—EDITOR. 
tOm offentliga dtgdrder med hdnsyn till det | rika bohusldnska sillfisket. | En vérdsam pro- 
memoria | till | statsradet och chefen for Kongl. civil-departementet. | Af | Axel Vilh. Ljung 
man. | Gottenburg, 1882. Translated from the Swedish by HERMAN JACOBSON. 
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