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iiiinlif hr possililc in soas wlicrr llio linllnin is ■^iniMiMi .-mi] U|iijii Ihc wlmlc lil 

 lov sciniuji' in all jmrts. 



Just such n sea \ve have in Xi.*suin-J'.iTilnin.i,', and un thc :\. and C. ol' 

 < )ct<)bei' wc triod to cfumt tlie plaico tliere. As tlie fisli are small liere I must 

 use a seinc with vcry smali mcslies — tiearly like those ot' a eoramon unlawful 

 i'cl-liandsc'inc. I knew trom lormer occasifins hnw exoellently titted tor plaicc- 

 Hsliing this seine is. and every tisherman kno\\s that thcre is a vcry great 

 ditl'erencc in tjio Hsliing-power of the soines. Tliis seine was only 90 teet long 

 and liad 10(1 fathonis of lino un either ann (oii > tlie long arm« of course also a 

 spare line). By the same calculation as l>efore, the area whieh was tished 

 through in oacli haul may be estimated at '', Tønde Land. 



The tishiug commeneed within Thyhoron, and liy and by s piaces Avere 

 searched, (hstributed over the whole expausion of the Fjord from Thyborøn to 

 Oddesund. The Hrst station gave in 2 hauls 218 plaice. consequently: 



Station I 109 plaice in 1 hanl per '/i 'l'onde Land. 



_ II 28S — — — 



— III 20S — — — 



— IV 270 — — 



— V 334 — — — 

 _ VI IfiT — — — 



— VII 353 — — — 

 _ VIII 147 — — — 



All the stations are situated on a depth of about 3 — 3' o tathoms, and it 

 will lie seeu that theie is at any rate some meaning in the figures. On an 

 average we caught 233 plnice in each haul. or 932 per Tønde Land, and there 

 have surely been jnany more; liow mauy we do not know. Of all these c. 2000 

 tish 39 only reached the size limit: c 310 must be classed amoug the 0-group, 

 the remainder among the l-grou)), whieh thus contains by far the greatest 

 number. The O-group is generally found <in shallower piaces than those 

 where we were fishing, and the IF-group has immigi'ated iuto the more eastern 

 parts of the Fjord. Of thc I-group (taken separatel>) we found by these in- 

 ve.stigations c. 760 per Tønde Land. — As the area wliich in Nissum-Bredning 

 lies ^-ithin the 3-fathom curve. is about 19,000 Tønder Land, therc must in 

 those days have lived af the renj leas/ 19,000 . 760 plaice of the I-group in this 

 single expansion of the Fjord, i. e. 14,440,000, — o. 170 times as many as we 

 annually transplant iuto Thisted-Bredning, and more than we fish annually in 

 the whole Limfjord, the income from tho plaire-fishery here being calculated 



