8 



In (lie l)egiiiniug ol" June lS9n \ve were seining seveml times fnini the 

 iHamh , :i gnnboat wliit-li \v:is then placod at tlie disposal of the Station. 

 Tlie small plaice hetween c. 2 and ;5' „ indies were fonnd at several plaees in 

 Kaas-Bredning, increashuj in minilirr through Nis»uni-BrefJ))i»i) and farther on 

 to /hr mfrniirr of Thyhorøn nu/al. (h/ llie sliallmr sands licir /ir foiiiid at lcii(itli. 

 hfi /ladiitfi. Ihc fri/ of isti.'i in i/iTdt ijiKirdilips. nniseqiienthi Ihr fnj of lUe ijciiv. 

 'i'liis vas then )>ct\veen '% and 1 inch long. (Table I, column 2). 



Lateron, when we were onboard »The Maokercl« on the 18. June, wc 

 IViund again the Irv ol' 1895 (the 0-group) at tliis place, at the »('anal«; on 

 the 1(>. ye]">tember 1895 it was caught again from the »Hauch« in very gi'eat 

 (|nanlities. luitiier, on the 3. October, witli The Sea-eagle«, and the 4. De- 

 cember witJi liie saiiing cutter The Tern . By little and little it had c(.ini- 

 nienced emigrating on deepcr water, and in December 95 it had reached a length 

 of 1 '',- 3 indies; it was consecjnontly of about tlie same size as tlie fry ol' 

 1S94 in .lune 1895 (c. 2— 3'A, indies). (Table 1, columns .'i— 5.) 



As the fry of the yenr grew larger it coiniiienced, as I have said, to go 

 out lin deeper water, Sd that it could be caught in seines from the very 

 ships; it was not necessary any more to wade in the i|uite shallow water 

 in order to catch them. It also went deeper iuto the Fjord, so that it could 

 be found in September and October south of Jegind-Tap in Lavbjerg-Bredning 

 (Table I, columns (! — 7), nay even, thongh in smaller (]uantities, east of 

 .Jegindo in the very Kaas-Bredning. (Table I. colunuis 8 — 9.) 



These investigations into the life of the young plaice in its first year 

 of existeuce agree exactly with those published in Report V, pp. 43 — 47. and 

 I canuot see they can be explained in any other way thau by saying that 

 the plaice does not hrced in the Limfjord proprrli/ so callpd; hid its fender frij, 

 which in considerable quantities live along the bars of the German Sea, 

 and more particularly at Thybornn, is driven hy the cnrrenf. or yoes rolon- 

 /iirily, in IliroiKjli the yCanaJf. and l/icii farthcr iido tlir Fjord, growing at 

 the same time larger and lai'ger. From this rcason the smallest young 

 ]ilaicc can be found in Nissum-Bredning only, those which are a little lar- 

 ger at Jegind-Tap, in Kaas-Bredning, and (very few) in Sallingsund. This is 

 the way the groat majority of them goes. A glance at the measurements, 

 hible 1, shows directly this migration of the fry from west to east, as also 

 tliat it goes veiT .slowly, as the fry is generally over two years old when it 

 has ])assed Uirougli Sallingsund. The information containcd in this table, 

 Ihc measurements in iiuhe.s as well as the hcadings, will give the details 

 ol' tilis matter. It is ti iiitittcr of course that not cyery young plaici' which 



