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from the deeper regions (the Skager Rack) where it is not pursued by the 

 fishermen or at any rate only very little. 



It prefers particularly soft clay deposits, wherefore Fabricius's name 

 Pleur. saxicola fits it very badly. 



The Halibut (Hippoglossus maxim/its). 



On basis of my own investigations I can say here only with respect to 

 the halibut that young ones, somewhat smaller than two feet, are pretty often 

 caught in the northern Cattegat. 



Large specimens of this fish have during these few decennaries become 

 more and more scarce in the Cattegat. It evidently requires a long time to 

 become »full-grown«. 



The 24. March 92 I saw a male of 20. inches and two females of 14 and 

 16 inches in Frederikshavn ; they were all without ripe milt or roe. 



The long rough Dab (Drepanopsetta platessoides). 

 (Syn: Hippoglossoides limandoides.) 



A great number of Drepanopsetta platessoides have been measured during 

 these investigations (see table XIV), and none of them have been bought of 

 the fishermen, who always throw away these fishes as of no value. Only one 

 of the specimens that were caught was smaller than 3 inches; perhaps they 

 go through the meshes of the seines at this size and smaller, for the young 

 fish are very narrow. Also in England and Scotland the young ones seem to 

 be very little known. Lilljeborg, however, mentions a young one in »Sveriges 

 och Norges Fiskar«. 



Besides the grown-up fish (females) which, rather remarkably, have been 

 found only in small numbers, we can find in the table two distinct annual 

 series. The youngest series (in the, table a little more than one year old) is 

 in the spring 1893 represented in column 8 from La3S0-Rende (26. April) by 

 specimens of (2 3 / 4 ) d 1 / i — 4 1 /, inches; it is seen later on to grow in the course 

 of the summer and autumn. This series, the youngest we know, is always 



