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there are many eels; for if there can be sonie few traps, as in poiut of faet 

 tliere are, there might just as well be placed many, if they would only pay; 

 there is room enough. No, to be sure, such huge numbers of eels do not 

 come from the Baltic Sea, that our own stock is as nothing compared to 

 them — as it is often told in works ou fishery. Nevertheless, there comes 

 a considerable quantity, but by far the greater part must be supposed to 

 go round Falsterbo, and falls to the shores of Scania and the distance Elsi- 

 nore — Nivaa, where one of our more impoi'tant fisheries is situated. 



If this be correct, it li es near to ask, where theu the eels in our 

 other seas come from. The chart gives the answer. It is considered to 

 be generally known that the silver eels (the migratory eels) are only the 

 yellow oues (the seine-eels) in grown-up state and in breeding-dress, and 

 it may also be supposed, perhaps, to be a well known faet that a greater 

 or smaller number of silver eels every year emigrates from every lake or 

 bog in which eels are living, if the way out is not barred. A great number 

 of silver eels, ' cousequently, comes from our fresh waters, but most of them, 

 eertainly, are fished in the same fresh waters, by mills, by locks, in stream- 

 lets, etc, and only a small part of them reaches the salt water. 



But also in our salt or braekish little waters a multitude of eels become 

 silver eels every autumn. An old fishery, based on this, is carried on in 

 Kulhusrendeu at Lynæs, and down at Frederikssund. Nobody will assert, 

 that these silver eels come from the Baltic; at any rate, I dåre say, nobody 

 who has seen the eels, will assert it, for they are so small tliat an eel of 1 

 Ib. is a rarity among them, and the average size at Frederikssund is scarcely 

 1/4 — V.3 1'^- "^h^y ^re nearly all of them males, therefore the small size. 

 The place they come from, is the Roskildefjord where, likewise, the stock of 

 eels (the yellow ones), chiefly consists of males, and where all the eels are 

 very small. — ■ Also in the Odensefjord there has of late years grown up a 

 silver eel fishery with some 150 traps, and in the western part of the Lim- 

 fjord there is now a great fishery (c. 1600) for eels that emigrate westwards 

 through the Tyborøn canal; 20 years ago there was not one eel- trap liere. 

 In the eastern part of the Limfjord (from Løgstør eastwards) there has, on 

 the other hånd, for many years been a silver eel fishery; the eels go east- 

 wards here, cousequently to the Kattegat. The fishery in the Issefjord has 

 c. 400 traps, that of the whole Limfjord c. 2600 traps, uo small fisheries 

 then, though there is here eertainly only the stock of the fjord. 



When we thus see fisheries with c. 2600 traps l)ased only ou the growth 

 of our own eels in the Limfjord, the thought suggests itself that, for instanee. 



