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of the cod were takeu iu Jul}' and September 1902. Few investigations were 

 made for the bottom-stages of the cod in the Kattegat in 1902; some hauls with 

 the young-fish trawl on the bottom were made in the northern Kattegat in Jime 

 and iu these not a few of the bottom-stages were taken. 



The distribution of the bottom-stages was also for the most part the same 

 in 1902 as in 1904. The most esseutial difference is this, that the hottom-stages 

 were niuch more numerously represented in 1903 tlian in 1004. 



Tab. C. List of measurements of cod (o — 20 cm.), 1903. 



In 1903 we fouud the pelagic cod young already in February, taking 

 2 small specimens to the S. E. of Sprogø, 25 fm., in a 10 minutes haul with the 

 young-fish^ trawl on the surface on the 26th. As the young-fish trawl was used 

 but httle in 1903, few pelagic cod young were takeu in that year, and mostly in 

 May and June (see Tab. 3 A). Nor did we Hsh mueh with this apparatus in the 

 autumn. Concerning the distribution of the bottom-stages of the cod in 1903, I 

 eau only say that there were mauy of these in the Little Belt and few iu the 



