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Marking experiments in Finmarken in 1913. 
It was thus evident, that the marking experiments carried out in Finmarken in 
1913 were in reality to be regarded as a continuation of the investigations as to the mi- 
gration of the skrei, since the Finmark fish marked in this year were, as a matter of fact, 
spent skrei. We will therefore proceed to consider the results of these experiments. During 
the period from 12th May to 27th June, there were marked, as mentioned above, in 
all 1,955 cod, taken along a range of the Finmark coast from Honningsvaag to Kiberg 
(Varangerfjord), most of them being marked between Berlevaag and Baadsfjord, in the 
eastern part of the water. The total number retaken was 121, or about 6.2 %. In the 
two figures, 70 and 71, will be found a number of examples of the migrations of the mar- 
ked fish from Finmarken. The main direction is eastward along the coast of Finmarken 
(Fig. 70) and farther along the Murman coast (Fig. 71). It is thus finally proved, that 
Fig. 70. Marking experiments, Finmarken 1913. 
the spent skrei seek first the coast of Finmarken and then the Murman coast, and that the 
fishery in both these places has for its object the same stock which spawns on the Norwegian 
skrei banks. The rapid movement of these fish must be regarded as at any rate a partial 
explanation of the fact that the percentage of recaptures here was so much lower than 
that of the Lofoten fish. 
These results had long been anticipated. Thus the Russian expedition under KnI- 
POWITSCH carried out, in 1898 and 1900, fishing experiments north of the Murman coast, 
and discovered that a movement took place eastwards along this range. In 1902, K. 
Dax made some fishing experiments from the “Skolpen” off the coast of Finmarken, 
and was likewise able to note an increase in the size of the cod evidently due to the im- 
migration of skrei from the west. As we shall see later on, many similar instances are known. 
Other instances of migration noted. 
All this however, by no means proves that all the skrei follow this route. I have 
already in an earlier work*) made mention of the fact that the fishing industry of the 
*) Fiskeri og Hvalfangst. 
