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v. shooting and fishing.
watercourse (in certain cases one sixth) in the deepest place, shall be left free
from fishing appliances, unless special privileges to close the water-course have
been granted. The same is applicable to dam-buildings. This open central
channel in the water-course is called "the King’s artery" (kungsådra).
With respect to the fishing economy, only general provisions are made in
the Fishing Law, while detailed regulations are left to the local governments in
the different läns, which have the right to issue special bye-laws for separate
watercourses, including the lakes, or for the whole of a larger or smaller portion of
the län, after the hearing of the fishery-owners concerned and the fishery
officials. The decision of the authorities can be appealed from to the Government.
The "Law regulating Fishing Rights held in common" (Sw. Lag om
ge-mensamhetsfiske) which was passed by the Riksdag, 1013, aims at facilitating
uniform and organized management and utilization of fisheries which are held in
sole possession (Sw. oskiftad; cf. above and p. 31), or which belong to two or
more persons.
Fishery Administration
has been gradually developed. During the eighteenth century, the care of the
fisheries devolved on the Board of Trade. Towards the end of the century, there
was appointed, during the great herring-period in Bohuslän, a "superintendent of
the herring-fisheries", but when this period came to a close, the post was left
unfilled, and the fisheries were long without an official of any sort. About 1850,
the authorities in Bohuslän appointed a superintendent of sea-fisheries of the
province. At about the same time, the Academy of Agriculture appointed an
itinerant teacher in fish-culture, etc., and in 1864 a fishery intendant with
two assistants, who were paid by the State. In 1890, when the administrative
duties of the Royal Academy of Agriculture were transferred to a special
department, the Royal Board of Agriculture, one of its members was appointed, under
the title of Fishery Inspector, to take over the principal duties of the fisheiy
superintendent and to be chairman in debates on fishery matters in the Board.
The assistants became officials subordinate to the Board.
It was not before 1903 that the superintendence of the sea-fisheries of
Göteborg och Bohus Län was transferred from the Board of Trade to the Royal
Board of Agriculture. A thorough re-organization of the administration of the
fisheries took place in 1904, when, instead of the two fishery assistants and the
teacher in fish-culture, it was determined to appoint six fishery intendants, each
with his own district to supervize, a fishery assistant, a fishery engineer, and
two fishery stipendiaries. At the close of 1912, the posts of the fishery
intendents were all filled by permanent officials. In 1885 a State fishery- or
commercial fish agency was established in London, which, in 1888, was
transferred to Berlin, and, in 1912, transformed into an agricultural expert’s office,
one of the duties of which is to promote the interests in Germany of the Swedish
fish export. Fishery instructors or fishery superintendents are found in the
service of most of the Swedish Agricultural Societies and in that of the
Gottland County Council, who are paid by these corporations aided by a contribution
from the State grant for the support of the fishing industry.
Several other measures have been taken by the State during the last few
years for the promotion of the fisheries of Sweden. The loan-fund for the
promotion of the fisheries, towards which the Riksdag contributed 100 000 kronor
in 1892, has since that date increased to 2 767 250 kronor outstanding means
at the close of 1912, 2 100 900 kronor being to the account of Göteborg och
Bohus Län, and 666 390 kronor to that of the remaining läns. Since the
year 1907 inclusive, a sum of 750 000 kronor annually has been disbursed in
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