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correctness of this view, if it is his opinion that the cod, as a grown-up 
fish, during certain periods of its life, should live normally, in the very 
body of the water in the open North Atlantic. 
As yet it is not many cod and haddocks Hjort has met with out here; 
and the few finds I have myself seen on board his vessel, gave me the 
idea that they were possibly stray individuals which, as it sometimes hap- 
pens with migratory birds, had reached places where they were not at home 
at all. The haddock that was caught in the Norwegian North Atlantic while 
I myself was looking at it, was certainly a very large fish; but it was lean, 
and did not look as if it felt quite well out there. I speak here purposely 
of cod and haddocks only; that the "Uer” (Sebastes), as Hjort has pointed 
out, is common, pelagically, in the Norwegian North Atlantie, is, I think, 
beyond any doubt. Perhaps I am mistaken in my view; time will show, 
I suppose. At any rate I quite agree with Hjort, when he says that the cod 
is a fish which undertakes long migrations, so long that the distances in 
our seas are but short in comparison with them. 


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