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Finally, the chart seems to show, and it becomes still more evident 

 when we study the very fishing-grouuds, tliat the nnmher of traps is very 

 small at certain piaces, particularly where the fishery on longer lines of 

 coast belongs to one person, because only the very best ^ouuds are used. 

 I am here thinkiug, for instauce, of the soutli side of Asnæs, belongiug to 

 the county of Lerchenborg, partly also of tlie shores of the county of We- 

 dellsljorg. Also the shore south of Korsør seems to be proportioulaly poorly 

 supplied with traps. AVlieu we comjiare these shores to those of Faaborg, 

 Bissenq), and Reersø, with their great uumbers of traps, whose stakes are 

 standing together so densely that they remind you of the trees in a forest, and 

 where nevertheless the fishery leaves a good profit to every man, we should 

 thiuk that the fishery on the other shores- might be made to yield more than 

 they do. At Faaborg the grounds together with the right of fishing were sold 

 in former days by the county of Brahesminde, and it is now distributed on 

 many liands. At Reersø the fishery is also carried on by many people, both 

 peasants and fishermen. At Bisservp there are certainly long lines of coast 

 belonging to one man (Holsteinborg, Basnæs), but here the fishery is seem- 

 iugly carried on in a rational manner. — 



As to the extensimi of the fishing-grounds, I shall here mention that, 

 in the course of these ten years, a large district, the mhole of the western 

 Limfjord west of Løgstør, has been discovered. Since the breaking through 

 of the Thyborøn Caual, the eel here goes westwards out of the fjord, and 

 c. 1600 traps are employed in this fishery. 



Also the fishery in the Odensefjord has grown up of late years (c. 

 140 traps). 



A fishery at Frederikshavn harbour has proved to pay well. It was 

 mainly discovered by the Biologicai Station while the latter was situated 

 here, but it seems to develop slowly. 



Other fisheries, the liistory of wliich I do not know, have surely also 

 grown up in the various waters of late years, but I must consider it beyond 

 doubt that further fishiug may be carried on with profit botli north of 

 Funen, on the western shore of Æbelø, and on the west side of Sjællands 

 Odde; for though it is in the nature of things that the northern shores as 

 a rule are unfit for eel-trap fishery, because the eels go from the south to 

 the north in our seas, a glauce at the chart will show that these two points 

 are so situated that western winds must drive the eels in on the shores 

 there. At Sejrø the eel-trap fishery is said to have been tried, but with no 

 good result. 



