APPENDIX K: KYLE 



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vaad is carried on in the southern Kattegat by the fishermen from Malmöhus. For 1895, 

 the value of the plaice caught there was 50,508 Kr. ; for 1896, 71,551 Kr. ; and for 1902, 

 56,336 Kr. If we take 55,000 Kr. as the average since 1895, we should have to add 

 ca. 200,000 kg. annually to the quantities stated below. 



The returns for Halland are given in kilograms, those for Bohuslän in numbers. 

 These have been converted the one into the other on the same systetn that has been 

 employed for the Danish statistics. 



The rapid increase in the "Kvasar"-fishing is somewhat remarkable. In 1893, there 

 was only one boat of that type, since then, the progress has been as follows: 1894, 6; 

 1896, 14; 1897, 19; 1898, 21; 1899, 23; 1900, 25; 1901, 27; 1902, 27. There are also 

 about a dozen of these boats fishing in the southern Kattegat from Malmöhus. 



Table III. Plaice fishery of the Kattegat: quantity and value of the Swedish fishery i 



Bohuslän 



Asperö 



Kvasar- 

 fishing 



Halland 2 



Total 



Quantity 



Value 



Average 



price 



per kg. 



iSgo 



1891 



1892 



1893. 



1894, 



1895 

 1896 

 1897 

 1898 

 1899 

 1900 

 1901 

 1902 



numbers 



? 

 40,000 

 35,000 

 30,000 



30,000 



41,000 

 72,500 

 62,500 

 60,480 

 58,000 

 65,000 

 58,000 

 58,000 



numbers 



13,000 



153,860 



362,000 



727,300 



902,700 



889,240 



1,071,920 



1,407,500 



1,530,610 



1,610,532 



kg. 



23,390 



21,185 



82,600 



115,300 



115,230 



-\- 1,4.00 sc. 



136,800 



75,600 



123,700 



125,470 



179,700 



95,700 



94,660 



179,000 



35,700 



95,300 



144,000 



189,400 



272,800 

 345,500 



437,400 

 434,100 

 546,900 

 574,300 

 591,100 

 700,400 



9,a»s 

 11,183 

 25,220 

 32,260 



51,058 



63,945 



84,517 



106,762 



100,355 

 124,538 

 147,565 

 178,775 

 213,055 



kr. 



0'3I 

 0-26 



0-27 



0-23 

 0-24 

 0-24 

 0'23 



0-23 



026 



0-30 

 0-30 



The table shows the actual details of the progress made by the kvasar- fishing 

 of Bohuslän. In 1892, it did not exist, in 1902, over half a million kg. of plaice were 

 landed by its means. The quantities are relatively small in comparison with the Danish 

 figures, but they are of importance in that they show a flourishing and increasingly 

 important fishery. 



The average price of the plaice in Sweden has been very much the same as in Den- 

 mark, since 1895. In that year, the quantities landed by the kvasar fishermen began to 

 affect the market probably and made the prices fall. Here, as in Denmark, it is evident 

 that the increase of the average price in later years is due to an increased demand for 

 the plaice and not to any decrease in the quantity. 



1 The Kattegat plaice fishery from Malmöhus in the south of Sweden is not included here. 

 Its value since 1895 has varied between 50,000 and ca. 70,000 kroner. This would mean an addition 

 of ca. 200,000 kg. annually to the total quantities. 



2 Sole, dab and turbot are also included with the plaice in the HaUand statistics, but are 

 relatively unimportant in amount. 



