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for, whether the prawns are fished up with seines or with traps, or with 
both, the result will be the same, viz. decrease. — Nay, if we want to protect 
the fish, and to promote the fishery, we had better aim 1) at getting all 
migratory fishes free access into our little waters and there fish them, 2) at 
making it easier for the salmon and trout to reach the breeding-grounds 
and stay there in peace, 3) at prohibitions against the landing of fish under 
the size-limit, 4) at protection during a certain time, or "closed waters”, for 
the prawns in the summer, 5) at transplantation of the fry of flat-fishes into 
suitable waters, etc.; i. e. we must lend a helping hand to the immigration. 
I am glad to see that the size limit for eels, in many regulations, has 
been extended from 12 to 14 inches. At certain places, however, it is 
evident that this is not sufficient. It is a good thing also that salmon and 
trout are now protected in salt water for a certain time, at various places; 
but, unfortunately, the protection is generally too late in the year, in De- 
cember and January instead of October and November. In Hobro and 
Mariager fjords, however, they are protected from 15. October to 15. Jan- 
uary, which evidently is a very good arrangement. 
By the regulations a way has been opened, at various places, to regulate 
the fishery in accordance with its wants. Perhaps it would be the right 
thing to do, by direct negotiations between the Biological Station and the 
fishermen at the particular places, to try to give the regulations such a form 
that the fishery was turned to profit in the best way possible. The know- 
ledge the Station now has got about these waters, would then in a more 
direct way be made useful to the fishermen, than now when they must 
acquire it through the printed reports, which, besides, cannot be written 
with an eye to the particular interests of every little district. — 
The main result of the biological fishery-investigations is, after all, quite 
encouraging. The fishes are not so easily extirpated, as some people have 
been inclined to believe. The fisheries can stand, and they have already 
been obliged to stand, a great deal of less good, not to say bad, legislation, 
and yet they are not quite destroyed. The principal ways by which the 
improvements may be made, are known to a certain extent. Whether people 
will follow them, before or later, is only a question of money. The fisher- 
men, however, have already at many places got their eyes opened to this, 
and demand, at their meetings, severer punishments for infringements of 
the law, and sharpened regulations for the protection of several species of 
fishes. Let us hope now that it will not last too many years before we get 
the greater profit on our fisheries, which we may expect from a suitable 
legislation and the local regulations that result from the same. Sharpened 
regulations with respect to protection, where they are necessary, supported, 
at suitable places, by the transplantation of fry, and the abrogation of useless 
restrictions on the fisherman's trade, will be the means of such a legislation. 
