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other hand, is for the most part at an end by the beginning of March, so that a 
comparison may here more easily be made. 
The cod fisheries. 1 have already in Chap. III referred to the marking experi- 
ments carried out in 1915. It appeared from these, as also from my measurements 
and determinations of age, that the Finmark fish in 1913 consisted mainly of skrei, 
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Fig. 133. Composition in point of age of spring herring for the years 1907—1914; 
average of all samples examined in each year. For 1914 only samples 
from February included. 
which had spawned on the skrei banks to the south, and had migrated thence to 
the Barents Sea in the course of the spring (end of April—beginning of May 1913). 
A considerable number of these fish, 1955 in all, were marked in May and June (vide 
pp. 106—108). The fish recaptured during the following summer had all exhibited 
a tendency to move eastwards, to the eastern limit of Norwegian waters and farther 
along the Murman coast (Figs 70 and 71). During the autumn and winter of 1913 
