APPENDIX G 



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Round the Norwegian 

 Sea the sea-hottom slopes 

 for the most part rapidly 

 from the coast and this forms 

 a slanting declivity, the 

 so-called "landbakke". At 

 some places however, it 

 expands in depths of 54 — 

 90 ni. to smaller or larger 

 banks, which are in part 

 directly connected to the 

 coast, as at Iceland, and 

 partly cut off from the 

 coast by deep channels (the 

 majority of the Norwegian 

 banks). 



It has been known in 

 Norway for hundreds of 

 years that the cod spawns 

 both on the declivity as on 

 the various small banks, in 

 depths of 36— 126 m., and 

 for just as long a period, 

 a great coast fishery has 

 been carried on at these 

 spawning places. In the 

 course of the last 20 years, 

 a North Sea fishery of 

 spawning cod has deve- 

 loped from the coast 

 fishery, and is chiefly 

 carried on on some of the 

 banks lying far from the 

 coast. A few years ago, 

 a series of similar banks 

 had never been investi- 

 gated with fishing appar- 

 atus, and no certain in- 

 formation was forthcoming 

 concerning the regions of the sea in which the cod shoals chiefly spawned. 



By comprehensive investigations of the distribution of the cod eggs in the year 1901, it 

 appeared that these were only to be found on the coastal banks and never over the great 

 depths of the Norwegian Sea, and that they had a limit towards the north almost at the 



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