lias oiico gdt witliia tlie (';iiial it^ liovuid lo stav in tlic l''iuril; I siippose 

 \i is iin])()ssihi(' tliat not fomc ol' tliem must l>o carried out ajjaiii ljy tlie 

 outward fiuTcnt. Tliis will bo tlic iiioiv (liffi<'ii1t. liowovor, (lio iai-tlicr thcy 

 liavc got into tla^ Fjord. — 



Many will object. pei-ha])s, that wlicii liie jilaicc in tlie Liniljord, as 

 al)Ove stated, t-an ilcvelo)) ripe s)ia\\u, and 1 niay add also ri|ie milt, il must 

 also 1h' alile to |pnipaL:,at<' llicrc. To lliis 1 eau answcr oiil\-: Well, |ii>rlia|is it 

 is alilr. nndiT ccrlain rii-cumstanccs, to do so, Imi tlir resul/ aj llic /irojia/iti/ioii 

 (i. e. I II c fifl) /'*■ itii.ysliiii. Till \\f sec tliis result, 1 nuisl rmpliatioally maintain 

 tliat tlie propagation is ol' no inomont witli rosjieet t<i Ih«' prcscrvation of tlio 

 stock. — To tilis i|Ucsfion 1 shall return later ou. 



Tliero are liowever. as it inay lie set'ii l'roni table 1. also largur plaice 

 in Nissuni-Bredning. tlian tliese littlc younii' ones. ('olumii 2 shows tliat wc 

 iu June 'Mk hrsidi^s tlic t) and the I-group, took tisli Irom c. 4 '.I inclics in 

 léugtli. I^argvr s]i((iiiuns tlian tliesc arc rare in Nissum-Bredning. Tlicy ari' 

 consequently uearly all of tliem under tlic size limit. At times certaiuly, somc- 

 wliat lai'ger lisli may come in Ironi tlie sea. but that is another tliing; it is 

 said partieularly lo oecur in the early spring. It is ehietiy tlie largest speci- 

 mens ol' the Il-group, between e. tj and 9'' 4 inclies, wliioh are transplanted into 

 the expausions of the Fjord uorth and east of Mors. but they are generally eaught 

 in the Germau Sea, just oif the Canal , and \ve know that they reachalength of 

 c. 12 — 14 indies in the eonrse of summer and autumn (eomii. Appeudix II) 

 in Thisted-Bredning, while they do not grow .so much if they are transplanted 

 for iustance into Venø-Bugt. We see in columns 3 — 5 that the stock withiii 

 the »Canal« later in the year consists only of a 0-groiip and a I-group, both of 

 whieh have grown considerably, but of a jn'oper Il-group there is then no trace. As 

 there is actually no lishery here in the summer, this H-group must have K'ft 

 the plaec. Some, perhaps, have gene out to sea, though this is scareoly the 

 rule, as these tisli do not willingly enter too low waters, whieh they must 

 do in order to ]iass the shallow banks and go thi'ough the narrow and 

 wiuding »("anal . ■■'): it is ueeessary thereloi-e to sujipose that a very great 

 numbei- of tliem hav(> goiie eastward farther into the Fjord, wherc towards 

 autumn (partly already in summer) a size-grou]i occurs from (7) 8 to 12 

 U3) indies, on the lai-ge.st-sized half of whieli (10 [9-/.,) — 1«^) the great 

 tishery iu Venø-Bugt and Kaas-Bvedning is lia.sed. (Table I. eolunnis '.), 1 1 12). 



* Wlu'ii tlu- young lisli aro .«(> im-liiied lu untcr llic <Caii:il , tlie rcnijon is just tli:it they 

 Wiiiit (o live 011 tlie shallow saml banks alun;; the .shores i>f .lutland: they iru then 

 with the cnnent easily into the -Canal:. r.,ater invest igations have shown, howevev. 



thai rathei n^iiliialili- niinibeis, in leitaiii >ears, emiL'rati' at'ain to Iho Gernian t^ea. 



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