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Table 94.
VIII. SHOOTING AND FISHING OF SWEDBN.
Imports and exports of fish. In Quintals à 1*97 cwts.
Average for
the years
Fresh fish.
Imp.
Exp.
Herring, salted.1
Imp.
Exp.
Anchovy, sardine,
tunny.
Imp.
Exp.
Other.
Imp. Exp.
1866/70......................1,032 277 244,070 1,784 18 12 32,778 1,074 ,
1871/75......................1,274 851 285,836 7,090 89 210 37,545 2,328 1
1876/80......................2,324 5,140 222,629 18,950 778 1,014 42,983 2,743
1881/86......................6,453 50,079 260,225 45,756 3,380 898 35.116 5^2
1886/90......................8,719 437,993 265,027 105,912 6,901 890 38,833 5,938
1891/95......................14,162 835.916 307,289 328,583 14,321 966 39,240 6,433
1896/00......................21.198 314,911 396,687 123,834 21,289 458 43,460 4,956
In 1900....................33,870 44,778 403,930 44,738 22,619 57 55,044 4,629
Herring is nowadays to a large extent sold fresh, partly for export, especially
to the German smokeries from Bohuslän, Halland, and Skåne, and partly for
home use. In years when the herring fishery is good, large quantities of herring
from Bohuslän which are not found worth to be salted are used in preparing
guano and herring oil. The best herring is salted and principally exported. This
business has, however, by far not been so profitable as it might in case of a
better arranged market.
Small herring (var. membras) is, when fresh, a delicious fish, and even
when salted it constitutes an every-day article of food among the population in
Central and Northern Sweden. Small herring is also used when smoked (bloater).
The real anchovy (Stolephorus encrasicholus) only rarely occurs in Swedish
waters, but the other species of herring, the sprat (Clupea sprattus), occurs both
along the west and the east coast, and is prepared, in Bohuslän, in the salted
and spiced form which, in tins labelled »ansjovis», has found a very extensive nse
both at home and abroad.
Among the cod family (Gadidae) the following species are objects
for considerable fishing: the cod proper, the haddock, the whiting, or
merling, the ling, and the hake. The cod occurs all around the coast
all the way up towards Norrland, although in decreasing number, but
is not so very extensively fished in our country as in Norway, although
codfishing along the west and south coast all the way up to Gotland
does not lack importance. The other species above mentioned only
belong to the west coast.
Among the flounders, the plaice (Pleuronectes platessa) is the most
important, together with the turbot (Bothus maximus), the sole (Solea
vulgaris), and the common flounder (Pleuronectes flesus), which occurs
even in the Baltic as far up as the Gulf of Bothnia. The shallower
parts of the Kattegatt are the principal fishing-places for the said species,
while the halibut (Hippoglossus vulgaris) belongs to deeper water in
the Bohus Bay. The inhabitants of Skåne carry on a lucrative plaice
fishing in the Kattegatt with cauffishing boats, so-called »kvassar>,
for sale chiefly on Copenhagen. From southern Bohuslän a lucrative
fishery of this kind is now carried on in Kattegatt. For this fishery
1 Inclusive herring — pickled, dried and smoked — and also small herring, etc.
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