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Before this end is achieved however, there is still another way to increase the stock in 

 the North Sea and in the Kattegat, namely by transplantation of small plaice from the 

 regions where overpopulation exists, to others where they are in smaller numbers but on the 

 other hand, grow much faster. 



This transplanting method, which has given good economic results annually for a long 

 period already, can undoubtedly be also used in larger waters, and investigations as to the degree to 

 which this may be successful at various parts of the North Sea, have already been carried out by 

 Committee B. The Danish investigations have shown that a transportation of young plaice 

 from the coasts to other parts of the North Sea, to the north and west coasts of Jutland, 

 brought in a greater amount to the fishery, as the recaught marked fish were more valuable 

 than all the transplanted young fish together. These experiments have been carried out on too 

 small a scale as yet, they merely give us a sign from and to what places the transplantation 

 is to be made. For the rest, reference may be made to Appendix H with regard to this matter. 



