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fresh-water fisheries.
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latter lake is in Jämtland. The salmon occurring in these lakes do not
go down to the sea, and, if we except the fish foiri(1 in Vänern, the are really
only large salmon-trout. In the rivers, the salmon are caught in nets and
seines, and in various kinds of salmon-traps. The salmon-fishery has
fallen off considerably during the last few decades. The most productive
river salmon-fishery is that in the Ångermanälven, Indalsälven, Dalälven
(the lower part), Mörrumsån, Lagan, Ätran, and Götaälv, and in the
Torneå älv, where the fishery is carried on in common by Swedish and
Finnish fishermen. Of låte years the fishery has gradually removed to
the coast, principally in the neighbourhood of the mouths of the rivers,
hut also out to sea. From Blekinge and Skåne, for example, a fairly
lucrative salmon-fishery has been carried on by means of drift-nets and
salmon-lines (Sw. uppflötade revar) in the neighbourhood of Bornholm,
■and even nearer to the German coast. Fishing by means of salmon-lines,
however, is nowadays never practised, and, except in Hanöbukten,
drift-net fishing, too, is carried on on a considerably smaller scale than before.
Photo. Fr. g. Klemming, Stockholm.
Salmon Fishing at Älvkarleby.
Of far greater economic importance for the country than the salmon are
the so-called coarse fish (Sw. fjällfisk, gråfisk), i. e., pike, perch, bass, bream,
ide, roach, etc., which, as a rule, form the greater part of the fish caught in
the Swedish lakes. In the northern part of the country, in the mountain lakes
and in a number of deep lakes resembling mountain lakes, such as, for example,
Lake Vättern, there exist a number of salmonidæ, the charr, trout, gwyniad
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