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the Skager Rak, the numbers rose considerably. In tlie Kattegat nortli of Læsø 

 aud in the Skager Rak there was an extremely large number of whiting young. 

 They were living partly in intermediate layers'-' over deep water partly at the coasts 

 on algal or Zostera covered ground, as the l'ollowing stations show: 



D. 26—7—04. Måseskiir in E. to N. =/^ N., 10 miles, c. 70 fm. (Tab. 1, Skager Rak). 

 Youngfisb trawl — 10 fm., 10 minutes; ca. 50 tchitingyoung, 1 — 6 cm., of other species only 

 1 haddock young. Young-fish trawl — ca 40 fm., 10 minutes: 6 irhitmgyomig, l'/2~3-'/2 cm., no 

 other fish. Young-fi.sli trawl on blocks on bottom 30 minutes: 6 u-hiting-young, l'/j — 3'/j cm., a 

 few other fish young and many other adult fishes. 



D. 27 — 7 — 04. N. W. from HirshoLm, ca. l'/^ fm. Young-fish trawl on bottom, 5 mi- 

 nutes: some whiting-young , young of Sjnnachia, Gastcrosteus etc. with other adult fishes. 



D. 27 — 7 — 04. Deget in West, 5 — 8fm. (Kattegat, north of Frederikshavn, algæ. Young- 

 fish trawl on bottom, 10 minutes: 94 trhitbig youiig, S'/j — 10 cm., some other young and adult fishes. 



We certainly did not obtain so many whiting young at every station as 

 at those mentioned; but tliey were seldom abseut from our catches to the north 

 of Læso, wherever we used the young-fish trawl either in intermediafe laj'ers over 

 deep water or on the bottom at the coasts. 



Botli the pelagic young and the boitom-stages** of the whiting were thus 

 in the Kattegat at the end of July. 



On July 20th we again left the northern Kattegat and went soutlnvard. 

 As on the cruise northwards we caught the whiting j'ouiig in single speeimens 

 but almost every where, where we fished with the young-fish trawl (see Tab. 1, 

 Kattegat, 28 to 30 — 7). We continued through the Great Belt down to the western 

 Baltic at Ærø. Here we obtained no whiting young, but some larger whiting, 

 18—24 cm. 



At the end of August when we made a short cruise to the western part 

 of the western Baltic we found the whiting young in Fehmarn Belt: 



D. 26 — 8 — 04. Olenlmrg Huk (Fehmarn) in W., :3 miles, 14 fm , algæ. Young-fish trawl 

 on bottom, 10 minutes: 1 u-hiting ymmg, 9 cm., no other fish, 4 small Cyanen caji., ca. 10 cm. in 

 diameter. 



D. 26—8—04. Staber Huk (Fehmarn) in W. to S., 9 miles. 14 m. (Tab. 1, western Baltic). 

 Young-fieh trawl on bottom, 8 minutes: 2 ichitiiig young, 12 and 21 cm., some other fish young 

 and older fish. Young-fish trawl — 10 fm., 10 minutes: no whiting young, some young of 

 other species. 



Al ilte end of August we thus found the wliiting young in the western part 

 of the ivestern Baltic, hut only in the hottom-hatds. 



From the 30th of August to the 3rd of September we fished a great deal 

 in the Great Belt with various apparatus at 10 — 11 fm., but without taking a 

 single whiting young or adult. A haul with the Danish trawl (Peterseu's pattern) 

 in 6 —7 fm., algal ground, S. from Slipshavn (Great Belt) on the 3rd of September 

 gave however 1 whiting of 8 cm. 



In the beginning of September therefore we did not fnd the ivhiting young 



* When we were saihng from the Swedish coast to the Skaw on July 27th in perfectly 

 calm weather, we could see from the »Sallingsund« the whiting young playing about under the 

 Cyanea capihita. 



** In the Lim Fjord we took some whiting young, in all 19 speeimens of 5 — 9 cm., at 

 the end of July. On the other band we found uo cod young there. 



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