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ing to note, that with the commencement of the skrei fishery in 1914, marks again 
begin to be sent in, taken from fish captured on the skrei banks, consisting partly 
- of specimens marked there in the spring, and partly of those marked in Finmar- 
ken during the early summer of 1913. At the time of writing (early March) it is 
still early in the skrei season, and not many marks can be expected to arrive as yet; 
the following have, however, come in:. 
A. Marked at Lofoten and recaptured there: 
1. Freed at Henningsver, East Lofoten, 17th March 1913, recaptured at Sor- 
vaagen, West Lofoten, 12th February 1914. 
2. Freed at Moskenes Ist April 1913, recaptured at Sorvaagen (almost at the 
same place) 24th Feb. 1913. Grown from 80—82 cm. 
B. Marked in Finmarken and recaptured during the skrei fishery. 
3. Freed at Baadsfjord, East Finmark, 26th May 1913, recaptured at Sorvaa- 
gen, West Lofoten, 19th Feb. 1914. Grown from 87-911}, cm. 
4. Freed at Kiberg, mouth of the Varangerfjord, East Finmark, 22nd May 
1913, recaptured at Mortsund, Lofoten, 20th Feb. 1914. Grown from 90—93 cm. 
5. Freed at Baadsfjord, East Finmark, 26th May 1913, recaptured at Breman- 
ger, S. of Stat., 26th Feb. 1914. Grown from 107—113 cm. 
The chart, Fig. 134, shows the shortest distances which the three last fish can 
have travelled since leaving Finmarken. Those which made their way to Lofoten 
must have covered a distance of at least 1000—1100 km.; in the case of the one 
captured on the West Coast S. of Stat, at least 1700 km. Bremanger, near Stat, 
is the most southerly point at which skrei fishing is carried on to any great extent. 
It must thus be considered as proved, that the Finmark fish can migrate to all 
the larger skrei banks. As to the numbers in which they seek the different banks, 
the numbers in which the skrei from the various banks migrate to Finmarken, and 
the quantities of the young spawned on the former which grow up in the different 
regions along the great range of coast, all these questions must be dealt with by future 
extensive investigations. By means of marking experiments, the study of growth by 
measurement and scale studies, and of the drift of the young, it is possible for biological 
research to elucidate these problems; it will, however, take years of exhaustive work. 
If we now turn to the samples collected this year, I must unfortunately at once 
confess that the amount of time available has not been sufficient to permit of age 
determinations being carried out, this being, especially in the case of the cod, a 
very lengthy task. Much information may, however, be obtained from a comparison 
of the composition in point of size of the samples, and we will therefore proceed 
to examine some of them in this respect. 
*) Up to the 21 of March the following numbers of marks from the year 1913 have come in: 
8 from fish liberated in Lofoten during the skrei fishery 1913 and recaptured] in March 1914. 
5 from fish marked in Finmarken in May—June 1913 and recaptured in Lofoten in March 
1914. 
2 from fish marked in Finmarken in May 1913 and recaptured at Sondmor and Bremanger 
in March 1914. 
