416 REPOKT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. [2] 



The "liomma" must be considered as a large fish-pot, with one or 

 generally, two arms on the sides, one being considerably shorter than 

 the other. They are always set, beginning at the coast, either one by 

 itself or several in a row, the longer arm of each succeeding "homma" 

 extending alongside or back of the one in front of it. 



THE EXTENT OP THE FISHERY. 



I now proceed to give an idea of the extent of this fishery. The 

 northernmost point, as far as I know, where eel-fisheries with " hommor" 

 are carried on, is the neighborhood of Grissleham, and the coast south 

 of that place towards Arholma and Tjocko, where this fishery is said to 

 have commenced about the year 1840. We do not meet with any 

 "hommor" eel-fisheries till we reach the southern part of the coast near 

 Stockholm, from Elfsnabben to Landsort. On the coast of Soderman- 

 land and the northern'part of the coast of Ostergotland no "hommor" 

 eel-fisheries are carried on. These fisheries, however, commence again 

 in the southern part of the coast of Ostergotland, beginning in the 

 neighboihood of Arko, and are carried on along the entire coast of the 

 Kalmar district as far south as the city of Kalmar. I am not prepared 

 to say at the present time how far south of Kalmar, towards the bound- 

 ary of Blekiiige, these fisheries extend. On the coast of Blekinge 

 these fisheries are carried on from Christianopel, and fartlier south 

 towards the districts of Thorhamn and Sturko. From the latter i)lace 

 they decline, and are only carried on along the outer coast-line as far 

 south as Carlshamn and the inner part of the Hano Bay, where from 

 time immemorial very considerable eel-fisheries have been carried on, 

 along the coast of the Mjellby district, from Nogersund and Horvik as 

 far as Pukavik. The migratory eel, however, do not visit the southern 

 part of Listerland, but are found in large numbers on the eastern coast of 

 Scania, from Ahus and Yngsjo, as far as Stenshufvud, where eel -fisheries 

 are carried on along the entire coast, and farther south, past Sandham- 

 maren and as far as Kaseberga. Between the last- mentioned place and 

 Abbekas the migratory eel does not come near the coast. ISTearAbbekas, 

 however, there are considerable "hommor" eel-fisheries, but after that 

 we do not find any till west of Trelleborg, principally in the KJimpiuge 

 Bay, and as far as Cajie Falsterbo. On the other side of this cape, and 

 towards the sound, no " hommor" eel-fisheries are met with on the 

 Swedish side of the sound until we reach Eaii, immediately south of 

 Helsingborg and farther north towards the fishing station of Yiken, 

 where these fisheries come to an end. On the Danish side of the sound, 

 however, "hommor" eeMsheries are found both west of Saltholm, on 

 the outer (eastern) side of Amager and farther up the sound near Hum- 

 lebeck and Helsingor.* On the Danish side these fisheries cease north 

 of Helsingor. Formerly there were eel-fisheries near Aalsgard, im- 



* See G. Wiutlier's admirable treatise, '^ Bidrag til Ktmdskab om Fiakeriet ved Torbwk''' 

 in '' Nordisk Tidsskrijt j'or Fiskeri," vol. i, p. 316. 



