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108 PRESENTATION OF THE AREA
Shipping routes developed by GL based on AIS statistics
11.10.2 Traffi c fl ow at Kriegers Flak
The shipping around the wind farm KF II could be
described as Þ ve main shipping lanes with a total frequency
of around 65000 ship passages.
The main ß ow of trafÞ c through the southern Baltic
has two distinct shipping lanes. One directed towards
the Belts and German ports west of Rügen and another
directed towards Öresund. The lane towards the Belts
passes south of Kriegers Flak and the planned German
wind farm whilst the lane towards Öresund passing the
Swedish south coast.
Apart from these two lanes, there are three others
mainly used by ferries between Trelleborg and
Travemünde/Rostock, Trelleborg and Sassnitz/Swinoujscie
and Öresund and Sassnitz/Swinoujscie.
11.11 The Fishing Industry
Commercial Þ shing at Kriegers Flak is mainly carried
out by Swedes but also by Danish and German professional
Þ shermen. The largest catches are caught in the
area just north of the planned wind farm. With statistics
from the National Board of Fisheries as a base,
the average yield within the proposed area of Kriegers
Flak is estimated to about Þ ve kg/ha/year. The low
yield, partly depends on that trawling is very difÞ cult
due to an often rocky seabed.
11.11.1 General about the professional
fi shermen of Skåne
The Þ shing ß eet on the south coast (Blekinge and
Skåne) amounted to 472 vessels in 2002. Of these, 418
or 89 % were below 12 metres in length. The smallscale
coastal Þ shing is clearly dominating, looking at
the number of ships of the south coast ß eet. The bigger
tonnage in concentrated to Simrishamn, Sölvesborg
and Karlskrona. During the 1990’s the gross tonnage
of the ß eet diminished with just over 40 %. The bigger
tonnage on the south coast diminished from 20 % to 12
% during the same time. The typical south coast Þ shing
boat is a 20 year old net-Þ shing boat with a length
of less than 12 metres.
The Þ shing companies in Skåne are, since the beginning
of the 90’s, more and more dependant on cod
Þ shing, which, for six out of ten businesses, represents
85 % of their income. For the south coast Þ shermen,
the average value per catch was about SEK 288 000
(2001). A large part of this is used to cover capital and
running costs. According to information from a report
by the National Board of Fisheries regarding household
income of the local Þ shing community (1997), the av-