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a) The Lim Fjords banks, and especially those at Lemvig, have suffered 
not a little by the past severe winter, as all the oysters in less depths than about 
four feet have been killed by the frost. This appears clearly from the fact that 
I could not obtain a single living oyster from the depths mentioned, hut on the 
other hand a number of empty, still partly connected shells (the animals in which 
had thus died but a short time previously). At greater depths than four feet 
living oysters were found but no empty connected shells. 
This damage, to which the Lim Fjord banks are always exposed owing to 
the natural conditions, will on the other hand be again made good by nature 
itself, as often as a series of milder winters occur. It is naturally the business of 
the contractors to see to the preservation of the oysters exposed to frost by remov- 
ing them in time, 
by The banks could not in general be considered as having been too 
severely fished during the past winter, less so because the weather was to a 
considerable degree a hindrance to the prosecution of the fishery. Some banks 
were fished very little (at Lemvig for example), others so far as known not at all. 
c) The banks in and beyond Harrevig seem however to be an exception 
and to a great extent to have heen fished out, if I am able to rely upon the 
experiments made, though it has to be remembered here that the unfavourable 
weather as mentioned already was in high degree a hindrance to exact investiga- 
tion. It will probably be to the interest of the contractors to let these banks alone 
in the coming winter or to fish them to but a small extent. 
dy That the oysters at some places, as reported by the lessees, were 
covered by sand, I have not as yet been able to convince myself. The damage 
cannot however have been of great importance. I believe also that the over- 
sanding in the nature of things must proceed so slowly and gradually that the 
exposed oysters might in one way or another be saved or protected, if attention 
is paid to the matter. 
e) The lessees do not seem up to the present, so far as I have been 
able to detect, to have undertaken any work of importance either in the way of 
exact investigation of the Lim Fjord oyster banks or for their increase or develop- 
ment. The short time however, the weather and other excusable circumstances 
should not be forgotten in this connection. The lessees have obtained oyster 
dredges from Frederikshavn and are disposed to experiment with these in deeper 
water. How far this will be successful however seems to me somewhat doubtful. 
Just as I had unfavourable weather during the investigation of the banks, 
other unfavourable conditions appeared on my return which made the journey 
somewhat longer and more costly than it would otherwise have been. I may just 
mention here the non-arrival of thé S. S. »Cimbria« and the stoppage of the S. S. 
»Iri« at Aalborg in consequence of the epidemic, which circumstances obliged me 
to journey round by Aarhus. 
Included herewith is a statement of the expenses connected with the journey. 
Kjøbenhavn, 9th August 18535. 
Most respectfully 
Henrik Krøyer. 
