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)>l<iicr urtr lu iiK'lirs. ur 4;i aiui ;')•> tinn's luorc lliaii tiieru uere jier Tømlc 

 Liuiil in Thisted-Brcdninii-; nav, tin re Jiavc rertainly in spj'ing been eveii many 

 mure per Tønde Land in tJiese two ex])ansi(jns o)' tlic Fjord, nut eouiit- 

 ing tlie lisli under tlie size limit, for tliere has tlirougli the whoh' summer 

 without any interruption been earried on a eonsideralile net-tishery, whicli 

 \va,s i-onstantly inereasin.ii' tuwanl^ tlie niuntli of September. It was oiily tln' 

 seines thai could clear out the lish, pai-lly on accuvnit of tlieii- powerful Hshing- 

 eapacity. partly nwiui;- ii> their great, iiumber in these proportionally small 

 seas. I have nol tried lo ealeulate Iiow nmny times the plaieeseines in tlie 

 oourse of Sejitember are dragged over every spotof the bottom of these smootii 

 seas. which are so partieularly fitted for seine-fishery. but it is often. ('an 

 anybody wouder thai llie iU-grouji is rare in tiicse parts? 



My view on this niatti'r is, briefly, that young lish of the I-group, and partly 

 also of the il-group, at various times of tlie yearenterinto these seas, partieularly 

 in the course of wiuter and spring; tliey grow up and must, after the inonth of 

 March, be eonsidered a Il-group. partly a Ill-group (as March is supposed to he the 

 birth-month of most plaice). Partieularly iii the course of the summer they grow 

 ijuickly, and a net-Hshei'y is immediately earried on in order to cateh theni. 

 A\'hcn tjic seine-lishery conimences iu September, all lish over the size limit 

 are lished up in a short time, and there will lie no tishery agaiu till a new 

 generation has itumigi'ated again and has growu up. — Ouly a smaller mim- 

 ber of H.sh run through these seas and Salling-Sund as far as Liv-Bredning; 

 here they grow somewhat ijuieker. and they know better to hide away and 

 disperse in the large expansion, so that a more intense llshery will not pay 

 hero on account of the smaller numbcr per 'l'ønde Land, before they grow 

 larger and more valuable. Partly from this reasou, aud partly because the.\' 

 grow more ipiickly. they become a little larger here than at Yeno and Kaas. 

 1)1 these aeun titen i/afiuf lierself rarries out au Hunnal transplaiitatioit uii a 

 larf/e scole. mmUrtr lo lliat irhirli man rarries on in Thisted-Bredmmi on a 

 iiiKch smaller srale : hiif kI hof h piares the slori: of fisli urer .v-'/j inrlies (over 

 the sixe limit) is lished up erenj ijear. 



Wheu diseussing this (|uestion with various men, 1 have often been asked. 

 wliother it is not remarkable indeed that the plaice does not of its own aeeord 

 go intn Thisted-Krcdiung, when the conditions theiv an' so well adapted for it. 

 The answej- lo tlii< (|ucstii>n is 1) that the plaiee on the whole seems to migrate 

 slowly, 2) that a l'ew specimcns alter all go in there, but that these are vcry 

 soou iislied u]), e. //. by Ihe eel-seines, 3) that there are great hindrances hir 

 sui-h a migration, buili nui-|li and west of Mors. pari ienhn-ly tin- narrtiw, long. 



