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It must certaiuly also be possible to develop the fishery at Samsø con- 

 siderably, particularly on the northern part of the western shores of the 

 island. There are here ahnost excUisively "Aalegaarde"; but rows of traps 

 outside the same will no doubt pay, where the depth of the water permits 

 the fishermen to place them. A few traps have been placed here already, 

 but ouly very lately. Also on the west side of tlie peninsula of Æheltoft 

 \ve might imagine it would pay better to employ "Aalestader" ; we find here 

 now only the old-fashioned "Aalegaarde". 



All these piaces are exposed to western tvinds, which are predomiuant 

 with us, and on the open shores the sea-wind is uecessary for this fishery; 

 therefore such piaces as Aarhnshugt and the whole shore along Djursland, 

 are mentioned as secondary. There is uo doubt however that, in good years 

 with eastern winds, many eels will be caught here; not a few, we know, 

 are caught already iu "Gaarde" along Djursland. 



As above mentioned, the number of traps which are found along the 

 eastern shore of Jutland, from Kanders Fjord northwards, is exceedingly 

 small, when the traps in the fjords are not included; and then the greater 

 part of the traps on the shores of the Kattegat fish yellow eels from the 

 north. It seems, consequently, as if the great migration of eels from our 

 Belts does not reach this shore. But, nevertheless, there are silver eels; and 

 yellow eels too are living in not quite small numbers on the shores of the 

 Cattegat, where, in certain years at any rate, Zostera is found on no small 

 areas (see the chart). Might it not be possible to carry on a greater eel- 

 trap fishery here, and might not, iu years when eastern winds are predo- 

 miuant, the eels from the Belts go through Læsø Chamiel, so that a good 

 eel-trap fishery might be carried on, both on the west side of the latter and 

 on the Læsø side? Well, who knows? Perhaps it has been tried already 

 without my knowledge. I should think, at any rate, that it would pay to 

 estabUsh a smaller fishery, on the east side of Læsø, for the eels that live 

 in the Zostera south of this island. 



Then there is Ca^je Slcagen, tliis headland which we should think the 

 eels must pass close by, if they go as far as into the German Sea. In 

 former days they caught silver eels here, in seines, amoug the sand-banks. 

 Of this there is an account by Søren Abildgaard iu his "Beskrivelse over 

 Kiøbstæden Skagen etc", printed in "Oekonomiske Magasin", p. 357, tome 

 V, 1761. He says that about Michaelmas time, they are fishing for eels, 

 with little eel-seines, along the shores of Cape Skagen. The outmost arm 

 is either drawn ))y a horse, on which a man is ridiug in the water, or it 



