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be taken in the littoral region in quite siiallow water, and this was naturally also the 

 case in August and September. 



The first bottom stages of the coalfish appeared already in May as is shown by a 

 haul with the eel hand-net on May 21st 1904 in Vestmanhavn (depth 12—0 meters); in 

 addition to 93 coalfish of the I-group (length 12—19 cm.) this gave 6 specimens of the 

 year's fry varying in length from scarcely 3 to scarcely 5 cm. The results of a few other 

 hauls with the eel hand-seine may be given here to show the occurrence of the earliest 

 bottom stages of the coalfish (0-gr.). 



1. Thorshavn, 24. July 1905 



2 hauls from 4^2 — meters | j^^j^^ ' _ ' 9.00°} 

 144 Gadus vir ens: 



No. 3 15 12 18 24 53 81 54 14 3 

 Vestmanhavn, 19. August 1903 



3 hauls from ca. 9V2 to meters. 



2109 Gadus virens (3 — 15 cm.) 



34 Gadus callarias (4 — 7 cm.) 

 Funding Fjord, 25. August 1903 



1 haul from Vk — meters 



2127 Gadus virens (mostly 4 — 7 cm.) 



9 Gadus callarias (4 — 6 cm.) 

 Vaag Fjord, 3.' September 1903 



1 haul from Vk—0 meters 



754 Gadus virens: 

 cm. 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 

 No. 7 22 53 64 141 214 101 38 64 43 7 



17 Gadus callarias: 



cm. 9 8 7 6 5 



No. 1 6 7 2 1 



Numerous other hauls might be given, but these few may be sufficient to show in 

 what great numbers the young coalfish appear at the Faeroes in quite shallow water in the 

 littoral region (cf. haul No. 3 above where the depth was only Vk meters). Nowhere 

 else within the regions investigated by us have we found the fry of the 

 coalfish in such great. quantities as at the Fseroes. Here also there is a con- 

 siderable fishery for the young coalfish (especially of the I- and Il-group), which are taken 

 in ground-seines, and the numerous names the people have for these young fish witness 

 clearly to the great part they play at these islands. 



