KNUT DAHL. 



In chapter II I have given prominence to the fact that I 

 did not feel wholly convinced that certain points of our outer 

 coast might at times be visited by young salmon in the oceanic 

 stage. I also mentioned that I did not feel satisfied, that some 

 of the open fiords of Finmarken might not harbour such 

 salmon. In order to take precautions against the possibility of 

 such chances of local destruction, I should think it would be 

 sufficient if the future law left the remedies against such possible 

 cases in the hands of administration, charging it with the power 

 of 6. g. enforcing the use of a certain mesh, locally. 



In case the abohtion of mesh regulations, as regards bag nets, 

 should raise the question of extending the weekly close-times 

 also to the seine-fishing for trout in the sea, I wish to point 

 out that the very nature of this latter industry does not offer 

 any parallel to the bag-net fishery for salmon. 



The seine-fishery for trout is indeed not in a position to 

 suffer the economic pressure of a weekly close- time. Nor does 

 it present the same scientific and national economic grounds, 

 which have urged the weekly close-time for salmon. 



In the seine fishing for trout there cannot possibly be any 

 chance, by a weekly close-time, of destributing the yield of the 

 fishery, nor promoting the access of the fish to the rivers, as the 

 wanderings of the seatrout are not analogous to those of the 

 salmon. Neither will it be possible to have a weekly close- 

 time for fishing with this kind of gear, as the seines will 

 then certainly be used "for the purpose of catching other sea- 

 fish" and will catch trout, which is very difficult, if not impossible 

 to prevent. This is shown by the present conditions. 



e. Annual and weekly close-times. 



Protection of the spawning fish and the equal distribution 

 of the yield of the fisheries have been aimed at by regulations 

 enforcing annual and weekly close-times. 



