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At Tasiusak S. alpinus, according to Bay (I.e. p. 55 — 57), 

 migrates in summer from the sea up ttie rivers and lakes to 

 propagate. When the expedition arrived at Tasiusak towards the 

 middle of Sept. 1892, the migration was still going on, but 

 seemed according to the Greenlanders to have greatly decreased. 

 Yet no less than 25 fishes were caught on the first day (Sept. 12**4 

 in a small net placed by a cataract; they were large fishes, 

 1 — IV4 kilog.; the males especially had splendid colours, and 

 the hook-shaped jaws characteristic for salmons during the time 

 of propagation. Already on the next day only 11 were caught, 

 and during the last part of their stay only a few specimens. 

 So ren Jensen writes in his diary-notes from Tasiusak, that 

 the nets are put out at the end of July; not a few are caught 

 from July to Sept., then the migration stops, and S. alpinus 

 winters in the lake; when the ice of the river breaks up it goes 

 to sea again, but it has then become very lean. — On Oct. 2"*^ 

 1891, Bay saw a rather large number of S. alpinus under the 

 ice of a fresh-water lake in Danmark Ö. 



When G. Holm stayed at Angmagsalik (1884 — 85), the 

 fishing with nets was evidently unknown , for he writes that 

 during the summer «Salmon» is caught in the rivers with a 

 three-branched pitchfork, during the winter through holes in 

 the ice with a harpoon ; sometimes they are also caught by the 

 aid of a dam which falls dry at low-water, and is placed at the 

 outlet of a river. 



Mallotus viUosus 0. F. Müller. 



Angmagsalik Fjord. 3.6.1899. 2 specim. {$$, 150 mm.) 

 Angmagsivik. 19.6.1902. 1 specim. (Ç, 119 mm.) 

 Kingorsuak. 29.7.1902. 1 specim. ($, 109 mm.) 



The Capelan or «Angmagsak», in plural «Angmagsat» (spoken 

 « Angmagsæt»), as it is called by the Greenlanders, is eagerly 



