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FRESH-WATER FISHING.
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seines according to Danish usage and petroleum motors in the cauf-fishing
boats are more and more coming into vogue. The inhabitants of
Bohuslän go on open sea-fishing or so-called bank-fishing in the North Sea,
the Jutland bank, and off the southwest coast of Norway, as well as
north of the Shetland Islands and, exceptionally, up to Iceland. In
this kind of fishing, they now principally use cutters of English model,
but partly also the oldfashioned »bank-sloops» of 30—40 tons burden,
and with a crew of 8—10 men. The fishing is done from the anchored
vessel with great long-lines, so-called »storbackor», baited for ling, cod,
halibut, etc. One or usually more trips are made during spring and
summer, during the latter part of which the occupation is mackerel
fishing in the North Sea and the Bohus Bay.
Lobsters and oysters are only caught on the west coast, where
oysters occur about as far south as Marstrand and northward from
this place.
The two very important species of fish, salmon and eel, belonging
both to salt and fresh water, are treated under: »Fresh-Water Fishing».
Fresh-Water Fishing.
Sweden is very rich in larger and smaller lakes, and, in this respect,
in relation to its area, takes the second place among European countries.
Sweden also has about 40 salmon-rivers with a total length of 9,000
kilometers, of which a length of 3,700 kilometers is accessible for the
salmon. The largest salmon-rivers are: the Torne elf, Kalix elf, Lule
elf, Ume elf, Angermanelfven, Indalself, Ljungan, Ljusnan, Dalelfven,
and Klarelfven with its continuation the Gröta elf; the following are
smaller salmon-rivers: the Halland rivers, Viskan, Ätran, Nissan, and
Lagan, and on the east coast, Mörrumså and Emå. Salmon not going
to sea also occurs in the great lakes as Venern, Vettern, Siljan, and
Storsjön in Jemtland. In the rivers salmon is caught in nets and seines,
and, salmon going up from the sea, in salmon-traps of many different
kinds. The largest salmon-fisheries are those at Elfkarleby in the river
Dalelfven, at Mörrum in the river of the same name, and in the river
Lagan. Of låte one has endeavoured more and more to fish the salmon
along the coast near the mouths of the rivers. Furthermore, in spring
and låte autumn considerable salmon fishing is carried on with salmon
drift-nets in the Southern Baltic all the way down towards the German
coast and some years around Gotland by fishermen from Skåne, Blekinge,
and Gotland.
Fishing for eel is very lucrative, especially in the rivers when it
is migrating down to the sea, and still much more along the coast in
suitable places. Especially on the southeast and south coast there is
rich eel-fishing close to land with a kind of fykes called »hommor» from
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