Agriculture and hunting

Almost all Dalethian surface is used to feed the population. Wastelands are seldom. Even almost uninhabitable lands are used for hunting and herding. Lakes, rivers and the sea are used for fishing. Daleth has an economy that is still based on agriculture.

All rivers and lakes provide fish. Fishing is allowed only with permission from the landowner. Rivers that border lands are sometimes seen as free fish water, but this is only so if the fisherman is on a boat in the river. Fishing from the bank of the river is only allowed with permission from the landowner. Landowners are keen to give permission for fishing in a river on the border, greedy to get more fish out of it than the landowner from the neighbouring lands.
In many cases, the fishers have to give a twelfth of the catch to the landowner. Most landowners give the larger part of their share to charity.
On the banks of Kristalmeer, there is a large production and trade in reed and reed products.

Fishing on the sea is free, but a ship entering a harbour might count on some import tax, which means a part of the catch is for the community. Some cities, like Uzda and Vîmeir have their own fleet of ships for fishing; these ships fish for the community and do not have to pay import tax for their own harbour.
Shells are used throughout Daleth and shell fishing is, along the beach, a good business.

Hunting goes by the same laws as fishing: it is only allowed with permission from the landowner, and a part of the catch is for the landowner. Hunting is done almost everywhere.
There are two kinds of hunting: hunting for fur and food, and the hunt on dangerous animals. Most countries list a number of animals that are dangerous and are allowed to hunt without permission. The hunt on dragons is free throughout Daleth - but nobody has seen a real dragon in the last centuries. Many countries also list the number of animals available and will not allow hunting if the number of animals is low, some nature loving individuals want the dragon to be on that list too.

The woods, forests, bushes, groves, glades and such provide wood. Dead wood (branches, twigs, but also leaves) is free to collect for the poor, so are the fruits of the forest (berries, nuts, mushrooms) in the community forests. But many landowners have a special patch of forest for private use, these patches are known as "formin". There are also special forests for the production of wood.
Small patches of wood and solitary trees and bushes outside the woods are called Bizhen. They can be used free by the tenant-farmers.

Roadsides are a wonderful spot to gather all kinds of herbs. This is free in the borders of the imperial roads. Because many travellers pass these roads, there are good changes that foreign and exotic herbs are found, grown from seeds spilled by traders or originating from the excrements of the horses and other animals.

The fields are forbidden to walk in when the plants grow; some paths might be free to be used by pedestrians. These paths are known as boottracks, because an old boot (sometimes a carved wooden boot) on a pole marks the entrance of such a path . What grows on the lands belongs to the farmers and indirect to the landowners. Animals in the fields can not be hunt without permission from both farmer and landowner.
The importance from the fields is made clear in the imperial laws: it is prohibited to destroy irrigation or drainage infrastructure and fences, and in many countries the destruction of the crops or the harvest is a lethal action.

Places where it is difficult to farm are used for herding a variety of animals. This includes large parts of the Cinfer shire, Salamandran, De Taycha and the mountains.