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According to the statistics, then, we ilo uot get more than at most 

 6 — 800,000 Kr. a year from the eel-trap fishery, wliich gives a yearly average 

 iucome on eacli trap, throughout the whole country, of c. 30 Kroner , a 

 sum which seems to me, however, neither improbably high nor improbably 

 low, and which perhaps is not so very far from the correct one. — ■ 



Resumé: lu our Fjords the eel-trap fishery is based ouly on the eels 

 which have grown up there. lu the Belts the fishery is based chiefly on 

 eels grown up in Danish and Sleswick-Holsteiu fjords and coves. The Sound, 

 on the other hånd, gets its eels chiefly from the Baltic Sea. The Baltic, 

 however, is not by far so rich in eels, at is has generally been thought, and 

 as we might suppose from its size. — In order to develop the technics of 

 the eel-trap fishery, a co-operation between fishermen from various parts 

 would be desirable. 



Tilis fishery can, in Denmark, be carried on with greater energy than 

 it is now, and it will probably be possible to extend it to parts of the 

 country ichere, at jyresent, it is not carried on at all. 



Note to the amiexed chart. The green colour on the chart shows, in rough outlines, 

 where the Zosfera grows. In the Aalborgbugt the occurrence of Zostera is only sHghtly 

 indicated, as closer investigations from recent years do not exist. The distribution here, 

 as well as in several other piaces of the Cattegat, seems to vary not a Uttle from one 

 year to another. 



The red crosses on the shores ontside Denmark indicate the situation of greater 

 eel-trap fisheries. 



