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land, nearly the entire population is engaged in fishing, and 
principally lives upon fresh or cured fish ; near the Scaw the 
inhabitants chiefly maintain themselves by catching flounders. 
Further south, on the east coast, where the soil is more fertile, 
few persons are thus occupied, and these only when fish are 
abunilant. This may be said of part of the bay of Randers, where 
a great many salmon are sometimes met with. In like manner 
herrings are found plentifully in the firth of the " Slie," in 
Sleswig, and sprats in the bay of Kiel. It is surprising that the 
several wide bavs and inlets in Denmark are seldom visited by 
herrings, while the " Slie," with a narrow passage, is rich in this 
fish. The right of fishing in the " Slie " belongs in part to the 
inhabitants of " Cappel " and in part to the proprietors of entailed 
estates along the said firth or bay. The herrings caught here 
are smoked in Cappel, and thence sent to different parts of the 
country. The sprats caught in the bay of Kiel are also smoked, 
and exported in considerable quantities. 
On the Danish islands the principal fisheries are on the 
borders of the Great and Little Belts, where many eels and 
herrings are caught, and on the east coast of Sealand, from Copen- 
hagen to the north of the island. On this latter coast several 
villages are situated, where the population maintain themselves 
entirely by fishing, and principally supply Copenhagen, Elsi- 
nore, and other places with fish, such as cod, mackerel, sprats, 
soles, <Scc. On the island of Bornholm considerable salmon and 
herring fisheries exist. 
Oysters and dolphins are found in certain districts. The 
dolphin, which, in the spring, enters the Kattegat and Baltic 
from the North Sea, is caught only in two places in any number, 
viz., near Middelfart, on the island of Funen, and " Joegerspriis," 
on Sealand ; in the latter place there is a special guild, esta- 
blished in 1693, and called the " Dolphin-hunters' Guild," which 
consists of thirty members ; at this place about 1000 dolphins 
are annually caught. The oyster-banks are not of great import- 
ance ; the principal ones are those near Frederikshavn, and on 
the west coast of Sleswig, from Fano to Pelworn ; the oysters 
from the latter banks are exported via Flensburg to St. Petersburg, 
Copenhagen, or Germany, under the name of Flensburg oysters. 
About 200,000 are annually taken by Frederikshavn, and more 
than 3,000,000 on the west coast of Sleswig ; these banks are 
government property, and are leased to private individuals for 
about 2500Z. annually. Of late years oyster-banks have been 
discovered in the " Liimfjord," in Jutland, and it cannot be 
doubted but that others must exist in Denmark. 
A few seals are shot near the Danish coasts. 
From the mismanagement of the fisheries, there is little or no 
