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difficult to give a summary of these fisheries. A sharp division of the river fishery on 

 the one hand, and of the fisheries in the lower parts as well as in the mouth of the river 

 on the other, is hardly possible; according to the Prussian law of 30th May 1874 ^ the 

 following belong to the coastal fisheries: 



a. the fishery in the North Sea within the three mile limit, measured from low water mark 

 along the entire stretch of the coast of the land and neighbouring islands and banks; 



b. the fishery in the bays; and 



c. the fishery in the mouths of the rivers and lower parts of the rivers; the upper 

 limit of this part is determined for each province by special ordinance. 



The species of fish which fall within the coast fisheries, are very numerous: they 

 belong in part to the real North Sea fishes, in part to the migratory and only in part to 

 the brackish and freshwater fishes. The chief methods employed in the different regions 

 are, according to Lindeman (cf. "Beiträge" of 1888), as follows: 



a. East Frisian Flats, Dollart and Mouth of the Ems. Limit of the coast fishery 

 on the Ems is the line which runs transversely across the river at the junction of the Leda. 



Trap-nets ("Kül") fishery: for herring and smelt, anchovy, garfish, salmon, flounder, 



plaice, shrimps, eels and lampreys. 

 Stake-nets ("Argen") fishery: for eels, fiat-fish, herring. 

 Shove-net fishery: shrimps. 



Fishery with eel-traps ("Schütten and Fuken") : for eels. 

 Seine fishery (lower Ems): for salmon. 

 Sturgeon-net fishery (lower Ems): for sturgeon. 



b. Oldenburg sea coast. To this must be reckoned, in addition to the sloop 

 fishery (with lines) from Carolineusiel and Wangeroog, the shrimp ("Granat") fishery in 

 the surroundings of Jade Bay. These are carried on either with pots, fixed nets (hemp traps) 

 or with shove nets. 



c. Lower Weser and Mouth of the Weser. Limit of the coast fishery is the 

 mouth of the river Ochtuin, lying 56 km. above Bremerhaven. 



The apparatus is the same as that mentioned below for the lower Elbe and mouth of 

 the Elbe, with exception of the shad nets (pots) which are peculiar to the Weser. The 

 most important fisheries are for the eel, lamprey, smelt and shad. Stop-nets are specially 

 used for the smelt, lamprey and flat-fish. Herring are fished with purse-nets, used as 

 trawls, from Weser down to the mouth. In the summer months, drift-nets and set-nets 

 are employed for fiat-fish and trap-nets for eels. 



d. West Coast of Schleswig- Holstein, Lower Elbe and Mouth of the 

 Elbe. The coast fishery begins at the mouth of the Ilmenau (130 km. above Cuxhaven). 



Drift-net fishery ("Pümpel"-nets): for sturgeon. 

 Drift-nets, trap-nets and tuck-nets: for smelts. 

 Basket-nets (of willows), pots with net-work, trap-nets and hooks : for eels. 



' Under coast fisheries, in the sense of this law, are to be understood, those which are being carried 

 on in the parts of the North Sea and Baltic under the control of our Majesty, in the open bays of the sea, 

 the gulfs and in the largo rivers at their entrance to the sea. 



The iuland fishery, in the sense of this law, is those fisheries which are carried on in the remaining 

 waters, in the rivers as tar as the point where the coast fishery begins. 



The limits of the coast and inland fisheries are determined for each of the participating provinces 

 by special ordinance, after consideration by the provincial council. 



