EMELIE SD 141 fishing vessel.

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The North by the Sea – Life at the Coast, is the theme for these Norden issues of Sweden.

The Swedish Post gives the following by these issues:

Coastline the ocean and boats are recurring themes on Swedish stamps and eagerly anticipated by both collectors and consumers. Often, the stamps have had a tourism theme, but this time we selected year-round industries along the west coast.

Communities here survive partly on small-scale fishing that is not harmful to the environment and uses methods developed by the fishermen themselves since the 1980s. One of these fishermen is Alf Gustafsson from Fjällbacka, who is pictured on a stamp in the minisheet on the deck of his boat pulling in the day’s catch of Norway lobster. Gustafsson works full-time with sustainable fishing and uses methods that are beneficial for both the lobster population and the ocean bed says Barbro Sjöberg project manager at Sweden Post Stamps.

The other stamp depicts mussels from a mussel farm. The mussels are farmed on bands of special plastic to which the young mussels attach themselves. In the middle of the mussel cluster to the left on the stamp you can see one of these bands.

The minisheet’s margin around the stamps demonstrates how to take advantage of the power of the waves along the coast of Lysekill, west coast Sweden. The world \’s largest wave power park is being built with hundreds of 8 – 10 meter high caissons that are anchored to the bottom of the sea to transport energy from the buoys you can see bobbing up and down on the waves.

The fishing vessel depict is the EMILIE with fish number SD 141. From the net I got the following on this fishing vessel.
Built by the yard of Salfa Båt A/S in Trondheim, Norway for the skipper Alf Gustafsson in 1990.
Tonnage 4.9 grt., dim. 8.60 x 4.90m.
One 62.5 kW diesel engine.
Crew 1.
Homeport Fjallbacka,

Most days of the year skipper Alf Gustafsson left the port before 06.00 a.m. and steers it toward the lobster banks.
He works with ecologically sustainable fishing, which is less harmful to both the Norway lobster and the sea bed that the more industrial trawl-fishing.
He carefully winch down his lobster cages to the sensitive mud bottom at a depth between 40 and 80 meters, where the Norway lobsters thrive. The cages are baited with herring and positioned at twelve-meter intervals on a 400 meter line. I have 18 lines going at the same time he says.

In one year Alf Gustafsson pulls in between four and six tons of Norway lobster. The daily catch is unloaded in Fjallbacka and directly transported to the large fish market in Gothenburg, where it is auction.

The supply of Norway lobster has been the last 25 years not be declined. The key factor is the salt in the water. The lobster only thrive in water with 0.3 percent salinity, i.e. water from the Atlantic that comes in from the west, further down the coast toward Skane, the salinity is to low, and there is also the boundary for commercial lobster fishing.

Sweden 2010 12Kr. sg?, scott?