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salt-water fishing.
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arose a considerable autumn herring-fishery with drift-nets, which, during August—
October, was carried on off Halland and the southern part of the län
above-mentioned. Fishermen from Skåne too have taken part in this fishery, carrying
on their operations in the Kattegat. Like those from Blekinge, these
fishermen catch the herring in the Sound and in the south of the Baltic during the
summer and autumn by means of drift-nets. The same kind of fishing is also
carried on during summer around the island of Gottland. In the bays and fiords
of the archipelago, along the coast from Blekinge northward, herring and small
(Baltic) herring are fished with seines principally during spawning time in
spring and the early part of summer; in some places in Central Sweden, also
during winter under the ice with very large seines, so-called winters seines. Besides,
there is used a special kind of set herring-nets, which along the Norrland coast
are tied very deep and are turned inward in the shape of a hook and are called
"hook-nets" or "deep-nets". Fykes, too, are used for fishing small (Baltic) herring
in certain parts off the Norrland coast.
Herring is nowadays to a large extent sold fresh, partly for export, especially
to the German curing houses, from Bohuslän, Halland, and Skåne, and partly for
home use. In years when the herring-fishery was good, large quantities of herring
from Bohuslän which were not found worth salting, were used in preparing guano
and herring oil. The best herring was salted and, for the most part, exported.
Small (Baltic) herring (var. mcmbras) is, when fresh, a delicious fish, and
also when salted it constitutes an every-day article of food among the
population of Central and Northern Sweden. Small herring is also eaten smoked
(bloater).
The real anchovy (Stolephorus encrasicholus) occurs only rarely 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
sale both at home and abroad.
Among the cod family (Gadidae), the following- species are extensively
fished: the cod proper (Gadus morrhua), the haddock (G. aeglefinus), the
whiting, or merling (G. merlangus), the ling (Molva vulgaris), and the
hake (Merluccius vulgaris). The cod occurs all around the coast all the
way up towards Norrland, although in decreasing numbers, but is not so
very extensively fished in Sweden as in Norway, although cod-fishing
along the west coast and also in the Baltic, all the way up to Gottland
does not lack importance. The other species mentioned above belong
to the West Coast only. The ling plays an important part in the
Bohuslän fisheries, and it is the fish that is caught in greatest numbers in the
Bohuslän deep-sea- or bank-fishery, which is pursued in distant waters
—■ near the Shetlands and in other parts of the North Sea. Nowadays,
the fishery in question is carried on for the most part with large cutters
bought in England, but large motor-boats are also employed. The
long-line (Sw. "långrev; backa") is used in this fishery. The old-fashioned
"bank-sloops" have quite disappeared. Besides the ling are also caught
the cod proper, the torsk (Brosmius brosme), etc. One or, as a rule,
several trips are made during the spring and summer.
Later on in the season, many Bohuslän fishermen go with the same
class of boats on the mackerel fishery, with mackerel-lines (Sw. dörj), in
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