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fishery legislation.
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tant experiments with regard to pond fish-culture and lake fisheries, together
with the investigations in connection with these subjects, have been carried
out chiefly at the experimental fishing and biological station at Aneboda,
in the northern part of Kronoberg Län, and partly at Eriksdal, in Malmöhus
Län, and the lakes rented around these places by the named association. The
fish-culture establishment which was founded in 1894 by a company at
Ängelsberg in Västmanland, and the chief end of which was the hatching and further
culture in ponds of two members of the salmon family from America, the
brook-trout (Salmo fontinalis) and the rainbow-trout (Salmo irideus), has lately been
enlarged, the company having erected a system of ponds on ground leased from
the State and forming part of the Kloten Crown Park in Örebro Län. The same
kind of pond culture has been going on for some years at Källefall in
Skaraborg Län, and a company is engaged in similar work at Kälarne, in Jämtland.
It is remarkable that the stocking with the above-mentioned brook-charr of lakes
so far north as in the neighbourhood of Åre has had very good results. In 1890
there was founded, at the expense of the State, a Fish Culture and Fresh Water
Biological Establishment at Finspång in Östergötland, with a number of small ponds,
as an experimental station for pond fish-culture and fresh water biological
investigations. As the supply of water proved to be uncertain, the establishment
— in accordance with a resolution of the Riksdag — has been closed and
another, larger State establishment, for the culture of salmon, charr, and gwyniad
from Lake Vättern, is to be erected at Motala.
Repeated attempts at oyster culture have been made in the coast-archipelago
off Bohuslän, the last being in accordance with a new method elaborated by the
director of the Swedish Hydrographic-biological Commission. Unlike former
attempts, this new effort seems to promise success. The same Commission
has also begun experiments with lobster culture, for which the west coast of
Sweden offers many possibilities. There is reason to hope that these attempts
will succeed, and that they will result in lobster culture on a large scale being
earned out on behalf of the State.
Fishery Legislation.
In regard to the ownership of fishing-waters, there were provisions
even in onr oldest laws and in the Code of 1734, too. but laws tor the
protection of fishing were not made until låte in Sweden, namely the "Common
Fishery Law" of 1766. The Fishery Law now in force is of October 17,
1900. The provisions in regard to right of ownership have, however, now
been deleted from this law and arranged as a special "Law concerning the
Right to Fishing Waters", of June 27, 1896.
Nowadays, the State owns only few fisheries. The majority belong to private
persons, according to the common rule that the owner of the shore also owns
the water and the fishing; but in the villages that have not undergone
repartition (cf. p. 31), this right is only applicable to the villages themselves, while the
individual owners in the village have equal fishing rights within the territory of
the village. The shore ownership enjoyed by the various villages extends, in
lakes, streams, and the bays and fiords of the archipelago, to the boundary-lines.
On the open sea-coast and in the largest inland lakes, the shore-ownership extends
only 180 meters outward from the shore, measured from a depth of 2 meters;
beyond this, the fishing is free to all Swedish subjects. Furthermore, there is.
the important provision that in rivers and sounds, one third of the width of th&
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