The following list shows the income on the prawn-fishery since 1891: 
In 1891 they fished for 2,965 Kroner. 
1892 ED 8 41K0.3 fol 
1893 ie: Se og ORE 
1894 WE Mussonger 
1895 vel SDN SYS 
1896 SE TGI] ur TEL 
1897 cd ENGE Er 
1898 åd op ooneee 
- 1899 ER SS EG IL 
1900 tk 31300 HE 
kerne ere SOS 
When we now know that it was not the … fishermen near the 
Limfjord who discovered the prawn-fishery in 1892—93, and when we 
learn that the number of fishing-apparatus (traps and nets) rose from 116 
pieces in 1891 to more than 2000 in 1896 and 1897, and have seen also 
how much the traps filled in the fjord, and how many fishermen there 
were who carried on this fishery, then we cannot doubt that the decrease 
in 1897 and 1898 was owing to over-fishing. The result was that the 
foreign fishermen stayed away, and the local engaged in other fisheries, or 
made atfempts only at fishing for prawns. In this way we got an effective 
protection of the stock im the whole fjord, and, finally, the good summers also 
caused the stock quickly to increase again, in some measure, in 1901. But, 
no doubt, this will not last long. — Now, the question which the legislative 
power will have to consider, is' this: shall we suffer this whole matter to 
take its own course, suffer the prawn to be over-fished when it begins to 
come up again, and then for some years let it sink down again to giving 
some 10—20,000 Kroner in annual income; or will it be better to try, by 
suitable forbearance, in the good years, considerably to improve the bad 
years? Å total destruction of the prawn, if it is not protected, is quite out 
of the question; the point is only to get the greatest annual profit on the 
productiveness of the fjord. 
It will never be possible, without experiments, to prove directly how 
we are to treat the stock of prawns in the best way. Should the opinion 
prevail that this matter is not yet so clearly elucidated that a legal time 
within which the prawn is to be protected, may he fixed for the whole 
country, then experiments can be made on a small scale, just on behalf of 
the prawn; it is sufficiently stationary to render this possible. I suppose 
that such experiments can be made, for instance, in the Limfjord or Isse- 
fjord. In the course of a few years they would give us certainty, not only 
as to the question whether protection is of any use, but also as to which 
method of protection is the most suitable. The thing is certainly worth 
