426 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. [12] 



district of Kristianopel 185 "liommor," in which there were caught 

 about 18,600 pounds of eels, representing a sum of about 7,000 crowns 

 [$1,876]. In the districts of Thorshamn and Sturko, with the islands 

 belonging thereto, the number of "hommor" in 1878 was about 1,000. 

 No data could be obtained as regards the number of eels caught. The 

 number of "hommor" in the western part of this district, from Pukavik 

 as far as Nogersund, is estimated at about 600, and in 1879 about 93,000 

 pounds of eels were from this district sold to German fish -dealers, which, 

 at a low cdlculation, would represent the sum of at least 50,000 crowns 

 [$13,400]. The receipts from the eel-fisheries in the Christianstad dis- 

 trict in 1879 were 138,600 crowns [$37,154.80]. We have, however, no 

 data from some of the fishing stations in this district, and the receipts 

 from these eel-fisheries may, in fav^orable years, be put down at about 

 145,000 crowns [$38,860]. In the Malmo district the eel-fisheries are 

 comparatively insignificant. 



As will be seen from the statistics of the last two years, the eel-fish- 

 eries vary greacly in different years. 



Table I. 



-Siatistivs of the eel-fisheries loith ^'■hommor" hi the districts of Usterc/Otland and 

 Kalmar in 1880, (lathered hy V. Wahlberg. 



Table II. 



-Statistics of the eel-fisheries ^vith "hommor" on the coast of Scania during the 

 years 1879 and 1880. 



1879. 



Districts. 



lOhristianstad 

 .Malmo 



Number of 

 fisbermen. 



297 

 139 



Total 



436 



Number of 

 "hommor." 



4,438 

 1,662 



6,100 



Number of 



poundsof 



eels caught. 



372, 539 

 30, 894 



403, 433 



Gross re 

 ceipts. 



$37, 152 57 

 3, 379 48 



40, 532 05 



1880. 



During the year 1879 the eel-fisheries were unusually productive, 

 whilst in 1880, when stormy weather greatly interfered with them, they 

 ^\('re in most places even below the average. Mr. Areschoug, of EsperOd, 

 iia.s kindly furnished the accompanying (see plate) interesting graphic 



