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tliu (liH'ert'iit frrywtli is dwiiit; I" tlic (lilTcrciil iiuiiilirr ni Msli jkt Tmiiir 

 Jjaud. 



From Veuø-Bugt as well us l'ruiu 'riiistod-lireduing lliey sent tu iiie in 

 tlif course of the year tlio labels (bone l)uttons) of aboiit one fiftb ol' the 

 wholc number ol' labels placed there, viz. 44 and 31 respectively; theiv were 

 in all placed 200 and 164 in tbe water, tlie lisii being labelled by Mr. Th. Mor- 

 tensen. M. Å. In thi" spring 1894 298 labelied plaice weve placed in Thisted- 

 Bredning, ^nld in tlje course ol' tlie year 77 labels eanie iu, oonse(|uently abont 

 one fourtli of tlieui all. This tiun' the lish were labelled by the cuidrolUnij 

 ofiicers, wo Avere particularly skilt'ul in this work as they had done so several 

 times betore — from this reasun ])robably the greater number of labels sent 

 in *). When only ^ - of the labels are sent iu tbe roason certainly is tha( the 

 lishermen scarcely sent! in all those -wluch they get, as they often do not see 

 the labels at all, whieli ai'e often torn off in the tisliing-apparatus, and more 

 particularly tliul tkc. lubelx yenerally /all of)' flir h^li a/ter the lapse of somc 

 nionths. Tliis year the fishermen had been requested not to keep the labelled 

 tish they might catch before the l.July. and the labelhng took place in April. 

 It will be seeu (Appendix II) tliat .luly and August show by far the greatcr 

 uumber of labels sent iu, though the tishery is not very considerable till Sep- 

 tember. This was the case also in 1894 and 1893. I must sup|)0se therc- 

 fore that most of the labels fall off before September. i'"isli with scars 

 from thf labels are seeu also pretty often in Thisted- Bredning. Thut 

 nevertheless so great a number of labels are sent iu seems to me to iudicate 

 that tiie tishery is carried ou very eagerly in these parts. If a labelling-experi- 

 ment was undertaken in the commencemeut of September, we should have a 

 better opjjortunity of seeing how intense the fishery is. for when we spread 

 tlie labelled tish over the whole fishing-ground, we may witli some reasou 

 suppose that, proportionalh', as niany of the unlabelled tish which are living 

 there will bi' caught as of those that are labelled. 



It has beeu shown abovf liuw we, by means of the statistics, can learn, 

 appro.ximately, how mani/ fish over the size limit there live, at the rei\i/ least, per 

 Tønde JmikI in the various expansions of tlie Fjord at Venø and at Kaas. 

 This method, however. coiild not be used iu Xissniii-Brediiinf/, as so very few 

 plaice are tished here, particularly iu the summer and autumn. I have 

 here used another method to get some knowledge of tho numbii- of lish which 

 lived here per Tønde Land. and i got the idea of using it, while carrying on 



••' In 1894 tliore i-iiino in nis.. .-. ', ..f th.' iiis Inbclli'.l |.I.Tici' whirli lin^l Leen |.l;i.i.,l 

 in Thisted Uri'ilniii'-'. 



