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Figure 137. Recorded localities off Newfoundland where Capelin have been small enough to be taken in tow 

 nets (x) or large enough to be trawled on or near the bottom (•). From Rep. Newfoundland Fish. Res. Comm. 



fig. 8, and 15, fig. 10). A. Vedel Taning has informed us that young fry from the Ice- 

 landic area are sometimes carried as far southward as the Faeroes, or even farther. While 

 the fish of northern Norway and the White Sea region may disperse more generally 

 in the Barents Sea, recent studies have not supported an older view that the center of 

 population for the Capelin of the North Atlantic lies in the northern part of the Nor- 

 wegian Sea, whence Capelin fan out, as it were, to northern Scandinavia, Spitsbergen, 

 Jan Mayen, Iceland, Greenland, and the coast of North America. 



Some, perhaps a majority, of the Capelin that are hatched well up in the ex- 



