3. Denmark 



Danish coasts 

 into districts 



The Danish fisheries of the Kattegat, Belts and the Baltic have already been dealt 

 with in a recent work by Petersen and Otterstrom (3). In the present paper, attention 

 will be directed mainly to the fisheries beyond the Skaw, that is in the Skager Rak and 

 North Sea. The line of division between the Kattegat and Skager Rak runs from the 

 Skaw to Vinga off Gothenburg, and is in many respects a natural one, but it appears from 

 the recent Swedish experiments on the marking of plaice, that these fish at any rate do 

 not recognise the boundary, and may migrate from the Swedish coast to the west of the 

 Skaw. The fishermen of Fredrikshaven and other ports of the Kattegat, respect the boun- 

 dary just as little as the plaice, and fish indiscriminately in the Kattegat, Skager Rak 

 or North Sea. An endeavour to obtain an accurate measure of the quantities of fish 

 caught in the Skager Rak and North Sea is thus frustrated, for these cutters bring a 

 considerable portion of their catches back to the ports of the Kattegat. An estimate of 

 the value of these catches is given each year, however, so that for all practical and present 

 purposes, the information obtainable with regard to the Danish fisheries beyond the Skaw 

 may be regarded as fairly complete. 

 Division of For statistical purposes, the Danish waters are divided into three main regions : 



I. West coast or outside the Skaw, i. e. Skager Rak and North Sea. 



II. Inside the Skaw, i. e. Kattegat, Belts and Baltic. 



III. Lim Fjord. 



The relative importance of these regions may be judged from Table X. 

 It appears therefrom, that the fishery on the west coast, that is, outside the Skaw, has 



increased of recent )'ears and now takes second place, above the fishery of the Lim Fjord. 

 This becomes more evident, when we take account of the quantities caught outside the Skaw, 

 but included under the region within the Skaw. We then have for the total value of the 

 fishing outside the Skaw : 



1900: Kr. 1,109,000 



1901: » 1,370,000 



1902: » 2,013,000 



Official Publications: 

 Piskeri-Beretning, 1889 (1888) et seq. 

 Works of Reference: 



1. Drechsel, C. i\ : Oversigt over vore Saltvandsfiskerier. 1890. 



2. Petersen, C. G. Joh.; The Biology of our Flat-fishes : Report from the Danish Biological Station, IV, 189Î5. 



3. Petersen, C. G. Joh. and Ottbrstr0m A.: Uebersicht liber die Seefischerei in den dänischen Gewässern 

 innerhalb Skagons ; Publ. de Circonstance, Nr. 13 A. 



