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nol lii'nwii aiiy largei' siiicr. Tliu cuiKlitiuiis dF Nissuiii-lU'eiliuug. Iiowover. 

 ai'c siicli tliat )»nt a. verv iiiconsiderable ])laic'e lislicrv is (•avrie<l on tliere; 

 they lish a little at tlie Canal«, and tliat is iiearly all, exccpt in spring 

 in ilic iiinuigratioii time ; tlir rcasim is tlial llie plaice are so small tliat 

 llicv cannot l>e sold. 



W'heu tlie plaice go eastward from Nissnm-l>redning, tliey pass tlirougli 

 ( )ddesund to Ijavhjerg-Bredning and \'enø-Bugt towards tlie south and Kaas- 

 Bredning towards the nortlieast. These piaces ulso swarm Avitli plaice at cer- 

 laiii times; liy l'ar the grealest innnbcr of lliose wliich are cauglit in llie F>ini- 

 IJoi'd are canglit in these waters, particularly in Venø-Bugt and Kaas-Bredning. 



The ]ilaicc is here generally nuuh larger (han in Nissum-Bredning, hut 

 smaller than in Liv-Bredning; I have ineutioned tliis already above (see Tahlel) 

 as also that the fishery here is based on the Il-group. Wlieii the plaice does 

 not reach the same size here in its third year (the Tl-group) as it doi's in its 

 third year in Liv-Bredning and. particularly, in Thisted liredning, tlie reason 

 cauudl be tliat it eniigrates as it grows larger (as it is the case iu Nissum-Bred- 

 ning); tlic reoaon is, as it has been jiroved this year by labelling the lish with 

 nuinbered bone buttons, fhn/ il does iiof f/roir so quicldy liere as il does iv Thi- 

 sled-Biedninii. (See Appeudix II.) I cannot know with certainty, if it would 

 indeed reach the same size as its brothers and sisters in Thisted Bredning, if 

 it got time for it before it was caught, Imt there ai-e indications to show that 

 it becomes mature at Venø with asomewliat smaller average length than 1(5 — 17 

 indies, so that it would scarcely, as a rule, become as large as in Thisted- 

 Bredning, even if it got old enougli. For want of a sutticient nuniber t)f lish 

 of the Ill-group, I cannot state the average size of this group at \'^enø, but so 

 much is certain, that the mature spawners I have seen there are to be fouud 

 among the larger tish there, ol' for instance ISy, indies, and the milters are 

 11 — 12 indies; almost all the smaller fish, on which the tishery is chielly 

 based. are not mature, cousequently not large or old enough to be .so. There 

 are certainly caught tish of 15 — Iti inches in this water; but as 1 have said, 

 they will scarcely reach the same average size as in Thisted -l>redning 

 (17 inches), even though they bcconie uld enough; in this res])cct, as well as 

 by (heir slowcr growth. Ilie\' are distinguished from the ]ilaicc in Thisted- 

 Bredning. Il will lie ])erceived that it is always the Ill-group that is scarce, 

 the grown-u]i mature lish. -— It lies near to ask now. why a |)laie(> which 

 is removed from \'eno-Bugt to Thisted-Bredning, grows (|uicker and be- 

 comes larger here, than it would have* done, if it had remained in \'enn 

 l'ugt (see Appendi.v II: ( )n labelling of plaii-e), and the lishcrmen's 



