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the great fisheries on tlie southwestern shores of Zealand (Holsteinborg and 

 Bisserup) with c. 3800 traps, may also be based on our own eels, viz. on 

 tliose which grow up in the large zostera-district (green on the chart) north 

 of Laaland-Falster. It is the largest zostera-district in Denmark, the El 

 Dorado of the seiners, and, in faet, the dwelliug-place of a very large number 

 of eels. Finally, I think, not a few eels are coming also this way from 

 Bøgestrømmen; the mauy traps on the south side of Knudshoved seem to 

 point to this faet. That the eels are not caught in traps down in the very 

 zostera-district at Laalaud, will surprise nobody who knows about these 

 things. For the silver eels cannot be caught in great numbers till they have 

 run aloug the shore, and have been gathered together, as it were, in shoals, 

 which then by the curreut and the sea are driven in near land. The shores 

 at Knudshoved and Holsteinborg-Bisserup are just the first shores to which 

 the west wind drives these emigrating eels. The eels which are not caught 

 on these shores, go farther northwards, and give their coutingent to Korsør 

 and the tvvo peninsulas at the Kallundborgfjord. The chart shows us that 

 they meet only the south sides of these parts, never the north side. When 

 Refsnæs is jtassed, the eel has disappeared; where it goes is quite an unsolved 

 mystery. On Sejrø, they say, no eel can be caught — but perhaps at Sjæl- 

 lands Odde? As far as I know they have not tried it liere. 



I have mentioned that the west wind drives the eels in to the easteru 

 points of the Great Belt; but an east wind, which is much rarer, can, when 

 it comes, drive them tlie opposite way, i. e. to the northern part of Lange- 

 land. No doubt the eels which are caught here, come also in part from tlie 

 southeru .shore of Laaland and the Nakskovfjord, and the water down at 

 Nysted must deliver up its eels, I think, through the channels at Rødsand; 

 from this reasou the ratJier considerable fishery at Albuen. 



The conditions on the shores of Funen, can be explained in a similar 

 way. The large area of Zosfera lies here between Langeland, Ærø, and 

 Taasinge. Also here the seining for yellow eels is flourishing. Wlien the 

 eels emigrate from this place to the north, they go westward or eastward 

 round the Island of Funen, and are stranded on the first shores exposed to 

 the dashiug of the waves, consequently, either on the eastern or western 

 shores of Funen, especially at Dyreborg, Horne-Land, and Helnæs. This is 

 just what the chart shows. South of Funen tliere is a remarkable local 

 migration, as the southern waters from Faaborg are running eastwards through 

 Svendborg Sund. All the traps, therefore, fish from the west in this sound; 

 at Faaborg, on the other hånd, they are arranged to fish from both sides. 



