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These returns are, however, all incomplete, as they only 
state the fisheries of a (larger or smaller) portion of the 
lakes in the respective districts, and because the value of 
the fisheries in the lakes stated has been estimated in round 
numbers, which are generally rather low. The reports from 
the Government districts of Ostergotland and Jonkoping 
are the most complete ; these are the only ones from which 
a tolerably true idea of the real revenue of the fishery may 
be obtained. Within the former district 21,548 Ltt. were 
caught in 1881, and the value stated was 50,969 crowns. 
The statements are from the greater number, or at least 
from all the most important lakes in the district ; not from 
the Wetter however ; neither are the salmon or eel fisheries 
of Motala Strom (the river Motala) included. The" latter 
consisted in the year mentioned of 1113 Ltt., worth 
1 1,130 kr., in addition to which is the eel fishery of Motala 
“ Kungsfiske,” the average value of which in 1860-70 was 
estimated to 775 kr. 
The lake fisheries in the Government district of Jonko- 
ping — that of the Wetter excluded — yielded in 1881, 
according to the statements received, 72,730 kr., an amount 
which, however, is probably considerably too low. Returns 
regarding the crayfish fisheries, for instance, are to be had 
only from five lakes, and the amount stated is only cal- 
culated at 6100 kr., although crayfish are stated by trust- 
worthy persons to have been caught in the district to many 
times that amount. 
It is true that these two districts are among those which 
have the greatest number of lakes ; but when the united 
fisheries, calculated at a low rate, yield an annual revenue 
of 135,604 kr., that in our three largest lakes fish is 
caught to a value of 436,147 kr., all the remaining lake 
fisheries might be estimated at 2,428,249 kr., or the 
