The Fisheries Exhibition Literature Volume 1

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: yearly revenue of the whole of our lake fisheries calculated at .3,000,000 kr. As this sum, however?3,000,000 crowns?to a great extent is based only on estimates, it might be interesting to throw light on the real worth of these fisheries by means of the following calculations, made from some lakes in different parts of Sweden, from which statements in some degree reliable are to be had: ? Extent. Swedish Snuare Miles.GrossCaiculated by means of the foregoing. The Annual Gross IncomeOf the Fish- ing Waters of the whole Kingdom 994-6 square miles (without the 4 great Lakes) would be Income of the Fishery in 1881.OfiSwed. Square Mile of 'Fishing Water would be Kr. I.2O2Kr.Kr. 3,266,525Lake Womb (district ofMalmohns)0108411, o88The Nomm (district of Jonkbping)0-12966,75052,08315,343,652TheGlan (district of Ostergotland)0-64908,66473,3503,932,920Lake Roxen, 0-8491I4, IOO16,6064,892,128Lake Oje (district of Kopparberg)'I3452.0OO14,8704,380,702The Hornafva together with the) Stomafva and Uddja (district of Norrbotten) )51742 024205.09S 000985290,181 1,119,775The Boren (district of 6sterg6tland)3,8o'The average annual gross income of all the freshwater fisheries of Sweden, the three great lakes excepted, is therefore, according to these seven calculations, 4,746,553 kr. Calculated according to the five of these lakes which lie in Gotaland (the twelve southern Government districts) the average gross income of one Swedish square mile of fishing water there is 22,360 kr. In these districts there arc54,753 square miles of freshwater, the fisheries of which ought accordingly to yield an annual income of 1,224,277 kr. In Svealand (the seven central districts) there are 54,336 square miles of fresh water. Calculating according to the returns from lake Oje, situated in this part, ...