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VIII. SHOOTING AND FISHING OF SWEDBN.
vary somewhat in different parts of the country, but, as a rule, the following
closed times are at the present in force: — for elk, the whole year except from
1st to 15th September; for stag, from 1st December till 16th August following;
for fallow deer and roe from 1st of January to 1st of September; for hare,
wood-grouse, black-game, hazel-grouse, low-land and mountain ptarmigan, in
the läns of Norrbotten and Vesterbotten, from 16th March to 21st August, in
other parts of the Kingdom, from 15th February to 16th August; {or partridge
from 11th November till 11th September following; for woodcock, from 1st February
till 11th May; for swan, duck (genus: Anas) and snipes, from 1st January till
21st July; for poachard (genus Fuligula), in fresh water, from 16th March till
21st July, on the sea-coasts from 24th April till 1st August; for eider, on the
east coast, from 24th April till 1st August, on the west coast, from 1st February
till 1st September, besides which several special regulations apply to this bird.
Bear. Painting by Bruno Liljefors.
Useful game is thus protected by law, not only during
breeding-time, but also till the young have become sufficiently large both to be
useful for food and capable of escaping from the pursuit of the hunter.
Nevertheless it must be admitted that the supply of useful game is
not as plentiful as the care that legislation devotes to it would
give reason to suppose. The causes for this are doubtless to be sought
partly in climatic influences, which frequently have a bad effect on
the development of the year’s breed, partly in an immoderate shooting
on grounds cut up by the continually progressing partition of land,
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