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some trouble, as the prawn costs 2—4 Kroner a quart; and as it is one of 
those few animals which remain within the boundaries of our country, so that 
we can give laws without international negotiations. The oyster is another 
of those animals which have shown that protection can restore the stock 
in the course of a short time, even though it has been considerably reduced. 
About this matter, however, i shall say no more, as it is in many respects 
different from other fishery-questions. 
It still remains to mention the fishes which have more or less to do 
with the fresh water, but which at times live on our shores in salt or 
brackish water, particularly, the salmon, the trout, the gwiniad, the pike, and 
the perch. OF these, the fishes that live in brackish water, are but of little 
consequence from a pecuniary point of view. If we wanted to do anything 
for them, we must first of all get them protected breeding-grounds, in the 
seas they resort to. The salmon, the trout, and the gwiniad, on the other 
hand, are more important. The first thing necessary, with respect to their 
life in salt water, is to get them free access to the breeding-grounds. We 
have here to do with even very valuable fishes, about which we know that 
they breed in our waters, im the fresh waters moreover, and only there. 
Here the breeding-grounds are all within our reach; and all fishing for 
them is carried on in fresh water, or within Danish territorial waters. 
(With respect to Bornholm things are different, however.) — Unfortunately the 
matter is made more complicated with regard to these fishes, by the necessity 
of a corresponding legislation for the fresh water and the salt water; but 
in other countries, in Norway for instance, they have succeeded, after all, in 
getting over this difficulty. — 
It has been maintained that the prawn has been protected for a long 
time already, for instance by prohibitions against seine-fishery in the spring, 
by closed waters, where all sorts of seine-fishery, ""Strygglib”, and "Aalekam” 
are absolutely forbidden; and yet, this has been of no use, as there are fewer 
prawns now than when the law came into force. From this it has been 
inferred that protection is of no use at all. Such an inference, of course, 
is, according to the above, quite groundless. The mistake, as far as I have 
been able to trace it, has its origin in the fact that the old Norwegian belief 
in the noxiousness of the ground-seines, and the advantage it would be to 
get rid of them, is still alive among our fishermen, and has resulted in the 
"fishery regulations”, which they have provided for the various small waters. 
In by far the greater part of these regulations absolute prohibition against 
seining ("closed waters”), or prohibition against seining at certain times, is 
of great importance. Now, sucb prohibitions may in themselves do much 
good, as they help to regulate the respective conditions for fishery with 
fixed and with loose apparatus, a matter which has always been, and will 
always be, eagerly discussed, as long as both sorts of apparatus are used 
in the same water; but then the fishing-season must be limited with a view 
to this matter, and we must not call such a regulation a protection of the fishes ; 
