Victuals: Almost everyone, except the poor, fishes for Baltic herring to supply their own household needs. Those who can spare time from other things in spring and autumn catch fish to sell to other people. The herring starts spawning from roughly 18th May to 16th June and is caught in nets. It then moves in among the inlets where it is caught in seine nets until the Feast of St Peter on 29th June – this is called the Great Herring Fishing (the former is called the Spring Fishing and they have not tried it yet in Torneå). Then, from St Peter’s Day until after St Bartholomew’s, they fish once again with nets in the usual fishing places. Herring have roe and milt the whole summer here, however.