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\X 28—4—04 Skaw lightship in S,, 1'/, miles, 40 fm. (Tab. 1, Skager Rak). Young-fish 

 trawl — 12 fm., 25 minutes: 6 youiig of whiting, all small, many young of other gadoids (see 

 under cod). 



This find of whiting young in the Skager Rak stands quite alone amongst 

 the results of our pelagic fishery in April, yet we fislied a great deal duriug this 

 mouth in the Kattegat right uj) to near the boundary towards the Skager Rak, as 

 ean be seen from Tab. 1. 



At ?the end of Mai/ and beginning of June the whiting young had a 

 soraewhat wider distribution. We then fouud them both in the Skager Rak and 

 northernmost part of tlie Kattegat; 



D. 31—5—04. Frederikshavn in N. W., 8 miles, 15 fm. (Tab. 1, Kattegat). Young-fish 

 trawl — 12 fm., 30 minutes: 2 whiting, ca. 1 cm., as also many other young of fishes. 



When we went in to the Skager Rak on the foUowing day, Ist of June, 

 we found a large number of pelagic whiting young: 



D. 1—6—04. . Skaw lightship in S., c. 60 fm. (Tab. 1, Skager Rak). Young-fish trawl 

 — 40 fm., 40 minutes: 48 irhitiiui, the majority '/., — l'/o cm., as also many other young of fishes. 



Thereafter we went southwards with the »Sallingsund«, setting our course 

 for the east of Læsø. North of Læsø we took oue whiting young: 



I). 2—6—04. Nortli Reef in S., 6 miles, 22 fm. (Tab. 1, Kattegat). Young-fish trawl — 

 20 fm., 15 minutes: 1 irhiting, 1'/.. cm., as also many other young of fishes. 



With this we parted from the whiting young for some time. During the 

 whole of our cruise in the beginning of June through the southeru Kattegat, the 

 Sound, true Baltic, western Baltic and Little Belt we found no whiting young. 

 though OU the other hånd many pelagic cod young (see Tab. 1 for the waters 

 meutioned). 



Thns the distribution of the whiting young in April was limited to the Skager 

 Bak, in the beginning of June to the Skager Rak and the northernmost part of the 

 Kattegat. 



The next time we met with the whiting young was on the 20th of June 

 in the Great Belt: 



D. 20—6—04. Off Hverringe Skov, 4—7 fm. (Tab. 1, Great Belt). Young flsh trawl — 

 c. 2 fm., 10 minutes: 1 whiting young, 15 mm., no other tish young, ca. 10 Cyanca cap., two of 

 which were large. 



Some days later we again took a whiting young in the Great Belt, this 

 time still f urther to the south, on the boundary to the true Baltic: 



D. 28— 6--04. Spodsbjærg in N. W. to N., l'/o miles, 14 fm. (Tab. 1, Great Belt). Young- 

 flsh trawl 9 fm., 25 minutes: 1 whiting young, 3 cm. and some other fish young as well as 10 

 large and many smaller Cganea cap., ca. 20 Aurelia, a few Pleiirobrachia and Boliiia. 



Some hauls with the young-fish trawl on the bottom, both at these and 

 other stations, gave no whiting young. 



Thus, althoiigh the whiting young were only found in the northernmost parts 

 of the Danish waters in the beginning of June, we found them at the end of June in 

 the Great Belt, but near the boundary to the true Baltic. They ivere still pelagic. 



We found no whiting young in the western Baltic at the end of June (see 

 Tab. 1, western Baltic, 26 to 29—6). 



In July we went northwards with the »Sallingsunds through the Kattegat 

 and caught the whiting young almost everywhere, partly in intermediate hauls, 

 partly in bottom hauls, but only single specimens in each haul. As we neared 



