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Västkustfisket. Dess organisationer och ekonomi (organization and
economy) (Göteborg, 1960).
Concluding Remarks on Literature and Sources
The references above to literature and sources are examples from a wide
range of both primary and secondary material. A more complete register
is available in printed form as a result of the work done within the
research project ‘Sydsvenska kustmiljöer’ in the Department of
Ethnology and Economic History, University of Lund: T.
Hedlund-Nyström, Svenskt havsfiske. En bibliografi, (Swedish Salt
Water Fishery. A Bibliography) I, II (Lund, 1982). The collection is
national, but all titles are labelled with a county mark—O for the county
of Göteborg and Bohuslän. The bibliography includes material up to
c1980.
Finally, one modern study is worth mentioning because of its
topic—Swedish whaling. K. Awebro, En lång väg till Arktis - forskning
kring svensk valfångst, a paper presented at a seminar ‘Nye studier i
Svalbards historie’ on June 17 1994, the University of Trondheim,
Centre for Environment and Development. Unit - SMU. Rapport nr 2/95.
Proposals for further research
There is not a comprehensive ‘History of Swedish Fisheries’ nor even a
history of the fisheries on the west coast of Sweden. The eighteenth
century herring fishery has had its interpreters, but still there is a lot to
do. How was the catching organized? What was the real character of the
units in work? How were the labour force in the salting houses and
train-oil factories recruited and paid? Who were the merchants who
organized and financed production and trade? Where did the money
come from?
For more modern periods there are wide fields for research.
Important themes are: studies of catches, boats and equipments over
time, effects of regulations of fishing waters and size of catches, access
to capital, governmental control, regulation and support of the fishing
industry, the causes and consequences of west coast fishermen going into
the Baltic, the market for fish—domestic and international, Preserving
the products—the modern factories and canneries, studies of consumer
habits, etc.
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