♦AlifU tlii' Biiilujrical Station in IS'.T) arrixeil at Nvki)l.iinij,' (on tlic isif 

 of Mors. Jutlaii(l) it wus one of its princii)ai tasks to stmly llu' bJology of 

 the plaice in tlio iJniljnrd. - It must \>v reraembereil tiiat tliis lisli is a new- 

 riinitT in tlie Fjord, as it was not found tiiere beforc tlu' l'reaking tliri)U.<;l) 

 of tlie Gernian -Sea in tiie begiuning of this oenturv. though I shall just 

 niontioii tbat a few .specimens have certainly livod in the eastern ])art be- 

 fore tbat time. just a.« in our davs. Tlie westei-n part of tlie Limfjord, bow- 

 ever, is by far tbe rieliest in plaieo West of Logstor tlie piaice fisiiery 

 may be calculated at c. 300,UO(J Kroner a year (comp. the pubho .statistics), 

 wliile tliey scarcely Rsh for more than a few hundred Kroner east of Log- 

 stor. To understand tbis it is suttieient to mention tbat tbe waters east of 

 IjOgstoi- are nineli .smaller in area tluin those to tbe west of tbis plaee (see 

 Ajjpenilixl) and tbat nnly a projioitionally small juirt of tbem. <iii ai'count of tbe 

 depth of the water and the couditions of the boltoni. are suitaljle for the jilaiie. 

 I eould therefore at ouce limit my investigatious to flir Limfjord irrsl of 

 Lof/sfor. Here, Iiowever, tlie plaice is not eipially distributed everywhere, na}' 

 it is almost quite missing in the two large waters south of Hval|tsund, Sl:irc- 

 Tjord and Louns-Bredninfi trifh Hjnrbæk-Fjord. althougb the couditions of tbe 

 bottoni in Louns-Bredning cannot be called uufavonrable to theni. On tbe 

 otlier band they are found, in greater or smaller (|uanlitie.s, in the other larger 

 waters Xissitm-Brediiing, Lavhjcifi-Biednimi. Vciiø-Biif/l (i. e. scove«), Kans Bred- 

 »iiif/. the irafers east and ive»/ of Mors, as also in ThistedBredninn and, finallj-, in 

 Llr-Brednhifi* ). They are missing, however, in smaller parts of these waters, 



i.'', tlie wliolc largo f.\|>iinsic>ii of tlio Fjurd In-twi-fU .Sniliiiij;, .Mor.-, aii'l lliinincilaiicl. 



