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show prospect of success; it proved later however that in certain ways they were 
based on erroneous principles. Coste's ideas had great influence on Eschricht and 
on his proposals to the Danish Government. He proposed namely to improve the 
whole breed in the Lim Fjord by the introduction of new oysters, and suggested 
likewise that the experiment should specially be made of forming new banks by 
transplanting full-grown oysters. To induce private people to form such banks, he 
further proposed that the fjord should be let in small parcels (as in France), with 
exclusive rights to the lesssees to form such banks. They should further have 
some recompense if successful. This was the beginning of the whole matter. 
IJ. Collim: Om Østersfiskeriet i Limfjorden. Two lectures. (Tidsskrift for 
populære Fremst. af Naturvidenskaben. 4 R. 3. B. 1871). 
J. Collin: Kort Udsigt over Limfjordens Østersbanker (Tidsskrift for 
Fiskeri 1871). 
G. Winther: Aarhusbugten undersøgt med Hensyn til Anlæg af kunstige 
Østersbanker. 
G. Winther: Om vore Haves Naturforhold med Hensyn til kunstig Østers- 
avl og om de i den Henseende anstillede Forsøg. (Af Nordisk Tidsskrift for 
Fiskeri (Ny Række af Tidsskrift for Fiskeri). Anden og tredje Aargang. 1875 
og 1876). 
The author explains that he himself had never visited the oyster banks in 
the Lim Fjord and complains, loc. cit. p. 193: »how great a need there is of a 
systematic rational investigation, according to most recent methods and with con- 
stant regard for the hydrographical and faunistic questions of the present day, of 
these waters so extremely important for the oyster fishery«. 
» Aktstykker« (Documents) concerning the representation of the earlier con- 
tractors for the oyster fisheries in the Lim Fjord to the »Folketing« and relerred 
by the latter to the Minister of Finance, with regard to compensation from the 
treasury. 1879. 
J. Collin: Om Limfjordens tidligere og nuværende marine Fauna. 1884. 
In this general information is given on the fauna of the Lim Fjord. 
C. G. Joh. Petersen: Om de skalbærende Molluskers Udbredningsforhold 
i de danske Have indenfor Skagen. 1888. 
It is explained in this why the oysters can no longer live in our fjords 
and sounds round Funen, Zealand and in East Jutland. The hydrographical 
conditions have namely changed since the period of the »kitchen middens«, and 
several other shell-fish have also died out since then. 
H. Tonning: VWOstreæiculture. Copenhague. 1893. 
The author states in the preface: »Cet opuscule n'a pas la prétention 
d'étre un ouvrage scientifique. J'ai cependant l'espoir, qu'il contienne ca et lå 
quelques renseignements d'un intérét sérieux pour les progræs de Vostréiculture«. 
