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VIII. SHOOTING AND FISHING OF SWEDBN.
Salmon Fishing at Elfkarleby. Photo, f^^klm^o,
September till October or November, when the eel wanders along the
coast out of the Baltic. German fish-merchants keep special cauf-vessels
stationed along the coast and buy up eel for export to Germany.
Among other inland-lake fishes which are important for the fisheries, we
may mention the pike and perch, very common, the »tie perch, which occnn
to a more limited extent but fetches a high price, the burbot (Lota), and among
the Cyprinidae, the bream, the ide, the roach, etc. Among the species of the
Salmonidae, the trout, the gwyniad and the ven dace are of importance to the
fisheries, especially in the north, and even the charr and the grayling are fished.
Other fresh-water fishes are of inferior importance to the fisheries.
Fish Culture.
Sweden is, as far as we know, the only country in Europe where
attempts have been made to promote the spawning of the common
inland lake fish by means of special contrivances with the intention of
improving fishing. As early as 1761, the Mayor of Linköping, K. F.
Lund, published in the »Proceedings of the Royal Academy of Sciences»
an essay called »On the Planting of Fish in Inland Lakes», in which h®
gave account of a method for hatching out perch and other inland lake fisl^
(not salmon) in caufs lined with twigs. His attempts were afterward^
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