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anchovy aud the spring herriug) vvhich use the Zuiderzee as a 

 spawuing-place — but 1 dou't speak of them at preseut. 1 raean 

 those fishes which spawu iu the Northsea, the young of which 

 do uot stiiy, however, at the spawning-places, but euter the Zui- 

 derzee there to reiuaiu for a short time aud to feed on the abun- 

 dant nourishment they find in that shallow and brackish bay. In 

 the Zuiderzee this is especially the case with the plaice, perhaps also 

 with the sole, though the latter fish only sekloui penetrates within 

 the Southern part of the Zuiderzee (south of the Enkhuizen — Stavoren 

 line). Now the Northsea-coast fishery aud the Zuiderzee-fishery are 

 not quite independent of one another, in so far as fishermen from Urk 

 and Volendam fish in both seas aud are aecustomed to change tem- 

 porarily the one for the other, when they think the latter pro- 

 mises them a better living. But in the Northsea they depend for 

 a good deal on one of the fishes which passes part of its youth 

 in the Zuiderzee: viz. the plaice. I often was told by fishermen 

 of the south coast of the Zuiderzee and also by other people, who, 

 though no fishermen, believed themselves to be well iuformed in 

 fishery matters, thart the Northsea was the principal fishing ground 

 for the üshermen of Urk and Volendam, that they could gain a 

 living there and that it was not right that they should spoil the 

 fishery of the Zuiderzee with their »kwak-" and „wonderkuil" 

 nets. I often refuted this assertion by pointing out , that the 

 Northsea-fishing was no longer so luerative as formerly , that 

 it is no longer so easy to have a good catch there, and therefore 

 that it was quite reasonable, that they should avail themselves of the 

 liberty — so dear to them as to the fishermeu of the southcoast — 

 to fish where they believed the benefit largest. The fishing with 

 »kwak-" and »wonderkuil" nets has got quite a new aspect 

 from the fact I ascertained: as far as the flatfishes are concerned 

 they do not spoil the fishing of those of the southcoast so 

 much as their own fishing in the Northsea! ïhose who fish for 

 plaices in the Northsea complain of the bad results of the fishing 

 in that sea ; they must therefore make up the deficiency iu the Zui- 

 derzee, and after having used there the »kwakkuil" in summer and the 



