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Barents Sea presents many cases of large cod frequently being found in the northern 
part of this water, thus for instance off the coast of Spitzbergen, Bear Island, and up 
towards the edge of the ice. Prof. G. O. Sars has, in his record of the “Norske Nord- 
havs” expedition, described how he encountered on the 15th August 1878 a very rich 
fishery for large cod near the Norwegian Islands (N. W. point of Spitzbergen, near 
Vig. 71. Migrations of cod from Finmarken to the Murman Coast, 1913, 
80° lat.), the fish “differing in no way from the bank cod taken on our coasts. Although 
they were of very fair size, some even unusually large, and scarcely inferior to the lar- 
gest Lofoten skrei, no roe or milt was found in any of them”. As all the cod were large, 
no small fish being found, Sars concluded that they did not belong to Spitzbergen, 
but must have come from the south, and belonged to the same stock as those spawning 
for instance near Lofoten. This fishery was carried on especially at the close of the 70’s 
and in the early 80’s, but then ceased. In the course of a cruise which I made in 1901 
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