About us
Our fishing
Our fishing runs from April to December, with some variation of ice laying and ice breaking. Whitefish and perch are fished in early spring and are followed by sturgeon fishing May – June. Salmon fishing is strictly regulated and normally starts in mid-June. During the height of summer, the availability of fish is less and then increases at the end of August. The spawning season in September – October is of great importance, the demand for sikrom is high. After the whitefish spawn, fishing for perch and whitefish continues until the ice settles.
History
Obbola has a thousand-year history as one of the oldest villages in Umeå parish. Society which is located on Obbolaön in the mouth of the Ume River and has had fishing, seal hunting and mink farms as sources of income for centuries. The old part of the salting plant, which is today our processing facilities, was used in the 1940s and 1950s as a salting plant for herring. During these decades, there were many fishermen in the community and the catches were large. The herring was landed at the salting plant's quay, cleaned (gill = remove the gills and intestines from the herring) and salted into large wooden barrels for later preservation in tin cans. The salting plant created jobs and the work was mainly done by women from the village.
We run the Salteriet
Fredrik Jonsson
Fisherman / Sales / Shop
- 070-5738091
- fredrik@gamlasalteriet.se