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be got for in the regions about the Atlantic Ocean. To this must be added the expense 

 of transplantation and advance to the venders of the young eels, but the result would 

 undoubtedly be able to bear all such expenses. 



There care scarcely be any doubt, that great gain could be made by transplanting 

 the eel fry on a large scale to the Baltic countries and other places in Europe, as we 

 should thereby enable many more eels than before to live and grow up to 

 eatable size, and there can also be no doubt, that many both fishermen and others 

 would take part in the venture, if arrangements were made to give them good oppor- 

 tunities for releasing the young eels. 



First of all suitable quantities of young eels should be transplanted to the lakes, 

 ponds and other fresh waters of the Baltic, and this must of course for the most part 

 be a matter for private enterprise. But in the second place it would be highly desirable, 

 if young eels in quantities were put out in the Baltic itself, and also in 

 the Danish waters, where it is not at all certain, that as many eels live as 

 there is room for. In this the states would naturally have to join. If transplantation 

 on such a grand scale could be realized, we could rely upon: (i)more eels growing up 

 in the fresh waters of the Baltic than before and thus an increase in the produce 

 of the eel fisheries in fresh water, (2) more silver eels than before migrating out 

 in autumn along the coasts of the Baltic and through the Danish waters, so that the 

 trap fisheries in the sea would also be increased. 



And lastly it should be pointed out that the people on the coasts of the Atlantic 

 Ocean would also have profit from such an undertaking, which if carried on to the right 

 extent would bring the fishermen in the regions, where the elver fisheries already 

 take place on a great scale à larger sale on better conditions. According to the nature 

 of the case there are and must be places, where far more young eels come from the 

 Ocean than there is room for in the water-areas, how perfectly the eel fisheries in 

 those areas are exploited. And in our times it ought not to be necessary, that one place 

 in Europe fishes so many hundred pounds of young eels, which cannot be eaten, but 

 must be given to the pigs to get them used, while other places, only a few day's journey 

 distant, pay 10 Kroner for less than one pound. 



The main conclusions, which the present investigations lead to as regards the Baltic 

 and on the whole for regions, which lie distant from the breeding places of the eel, are thus : 



(1) The fishery for the silver eels which migrate outwards in autumn should be 

 developed in as great a degree as is at all possible. 



If it can be done, we should, as at Commacchio in Italy catch the main quantity of 

 them ; for those that escape mean a loss in revenue ! 



(2) We ought to transplant on a large scale the young eels from the coasts of 

 the Atlantic Ocean and put them out both in the fresh water and even in the Baltic 

 and Danish waters in order by these means to increase the product of the eel fisheries. 



