I. Sweden 



Ihe Swedish fisheries of the Baltic have already been dealt with by Try bo m and 

 Woiiebsek (see 4). In the following, only the west coast fisheries in the Kattegat, Skager 

 Rak and North Sea will be considered. This includes the entire fisheries of the provinces 

 of Bohus and Halland, and the Kattegat fisheries of Malmöhus. As the Swedish statistics 

 are on a social rather than a commercial or scientific basis, the information to be gained 

 from them is somewhat limited. 



The Swedish fisheries may conveniently be considered under three divisions : the ubank« Fisheries of the 

 or deep-sea fishery, herring and mackerel fishery, and the flat-fish fishery. Each has its 

 distinct mode and region of fishing and even type of boat. 



The deep-sea fishing is carried oh usually from March to September by the boats of B"'' Fishery 

 Bohuslän. Some of them remain in the Kattegat and Skager Kak, fishing on the banks 

 near the Skaw, others go further off to the Jutland Reef and the banks off Stavanger and 

 Bergen in Norway, and others again to the north of Shetland and even to Iceland. The 

 main products of this fishery are the cod and ling, and long-lines are the fishing-instru- 

 ments used. Each boat has from 40—44 lines ("backom), each line being 360 fathoms 

 long with 60 hooks. Within recent years, the old type of boat, the bank-sloop, of from 

 40 to 70 tons burden, has given way almost entirely to EngHsh fishing cutters. During 

 this deep-sea fishing and also in the winter fishery in the Kattegat and Skager Rak, haddock 

 and whiting are taken on the lines, but not in any great quantity. 



In the herring and mackerel fishery, nets are employed in four different ways, either Herring 



, « • / 1 \ ^^^ Mackerel 



as seines (nvadarn) to enclose a narrow stretch oi water, or as purse-seines (nsnorpevadaru) Fishery 

 after the American fashion or as fixed gill-nets («sättgarn») i. e. driftnets moored to the 

 bottom, or as «driftnets» (itdrifgarnn). So far as the herring is concerned, the second method 



Works of reference: 



1. TiiYiioM, 1\; laktüigclsor vid sillfiskeriot iBohnsliiii, 1880—81-82, from «Nordisk Tidsskrilt for Fiskeri«. 



2. — ; Fisket i Halland; (1883) 1885 ot seq. 



3. — ; Atgärder for i'iskerinäringcir. Landtbruksstyrelsens borättelse iör âr 1902. 



4. — and Wolleb^k ; Uobersicht über die Seefischerei Schwedens ; Publications do Circonstance, 



I'd A, International Bureau. 



5. Malm, AH.; Beriittelse ofver Göteborgs och Bohus läns hafsfisken: 1886 et seq. 

 ti. LiiNDiiEitG, ß. ; Meddelanden rörande Svoriges Fiskcrier, I — 11, 1883 — 1888. 



7. - ; Fishery and Fishery-Industries of Sweden: Catalogue, Bergen 1898 Exhibition. 



8. — ; Svcn.sk Fiskori-Tidskrift 1802— 1902, by E. Lonnbekg, 1903 ct. seq. 



9. — ; Atgärdor for Fiskeriniiringen : Laiidtbruksstyrelsens beriittelse for ar 1901. 



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