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phenomenon was noted by H. Thamdrup (1935) and O. Linke (1939) for the 

 North Sea littoral. 



The following method was used in our investigation of the importance of the 

 Murman littoral fauna as food. On a section of the littoral suitable by its con- 

 figuration and at high tide, the exit into the sea was completely closed by 

 seines. When the tide went down all the fish caught were counted, weighed 

 and the contents of their stomachs were analysed. These observations showed 

 that a fish is hungry when it enters the littoral and that it feeds there vigorously. 

 A large number of young cod, haddock, coalfish, flounder, goby and vivi- 

 parous blenny swims into the littoral. No less than 100 kg offish concentrated 



200-300 g/m 1 

 200-150 si™* 

 150-100 g/m 2 



'^3</00 



-\>10000 Sim 2 F={ <200 g/m 2 

 ГГГП 10 00-10 000 g/m 2 Г^~Л 

 ШП200-1000 g/m 2 



Fig. 44. Quantitative distribution of main components of fauna of 

 the littoral of one of the gubas of western Murman (g/m 2 ). A Mytilus 

 edulis; В Macoma baltica (Zenkevitch, Zatzepin and Filatova, 1948). 



