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regularity and importance of that migration. From the way, 

 in which the eel-traps must be placed, and from the time, when 

 the fishing takes place, Lundberg has conduded that the migra- 

 ting adult eel is wandering along the Swedish east-coast out of 

 the Baltic. He believes that the purpose of this migration is 

 spawning. Already Kroyer^) presumed, that the wandering 

 of the eel along the coast of Danmark has the purpose of find- 

 ing water of greater depth and salinity. 



In several papers^) C. G. Joh. Petersen has more fully 

 discussed the question and shown, that the yellow-eel is getting 

 the silver dress, when the time for its migration out from the 

 fresh and brakish water approaches, that only the silver-eel 

 goes out of fresh waters as well as along the shores of Dan- 

 mark, and that the yellow-eel does not foUow it on this migra- 

 tion. In his last mentioned paper Dr Petersen has shown 

 that the most part of the migratory eel caught along the coasts 

 of Denmark must be eels, that are coming from the fresh wa- 

 ters of Denmark and that only a smaller part can be considered 

 as coming from the Baltic. According to the information he has 

 got this sea must be comparatively poor in eel. Also Dr Pe- 

 tersen believes that the eel does not spawn in the Baltic, but 

 somewhere in salter water. 



^) K r y e r : Danmarks Fiske. Vol. 3, p. 636. 



^) C. G. Joh. Petersen; Fiskenes biologiske Forhold i Holbpek Fjord 



1890— (91). Beretning til Indenrigsministeriet fra Den danske 



biologiske Station. I. Kjobenhavn 1891. 



— — The Common Eel {Anguilla vulgaris, Turton) gets a particular 



breeding-dress before its emigration to the sea. (From The 

 Danish Biological Station. V. 1894). Kjobenhavn 1896. 



— — Fortegnelse över Aalerusesteder i Danmark optaget i Aarene 



1899 og 1900. Med Bemserkninger om Ruseaalens Vandringer 



etc. (Beretning til Landbrugsministeriet fra Danske biologiske 



Station. X. 1900 og 1901.) Kjobenhavn 1901. 



G. S. B u 1 1 o had already 1891 shown that the »silver-eels» are 



the > vello w-eels» in »wedding-dress» (Mitth. deutsch. Seefischerei- Verein. 



Bd. XL N:o 7, p. 212—214. 



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