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Fur Turbots 12 inches to the base of the caudal fin. 



For Brills 12 inches to the base of the caudal fin. 



For Soles 10 inches to the base of the caudal fin. 



The other flat-fishes (with the exception, perhaps, of the halibut) 



are partly too delicate to he protected in this way, partly of no 

 moment to our fisheries in the main, and ought to be protected only 

 by special regulations for the smaller seas; sometimes it will scarcely 

 agree with Danish interests to protect them in any way. 



Ad No. 3. No. not as a rule, as far as our fishing-gear is concerned. 

 (Trawl I do not know from personal observation). 



Ad No. 4. To judge from foreign statements on this matter it will most 

 likely be serviceable to forbid the use of trawl, at any rate certain 

 forms of it, in the sea-; east of the Skaw. The condition of the bottom. 

 however, seems at most places to render such a prohibition superfluous. 



Ad Nn. 5. Plain- under <s inches (10 — 12 inches), turbots and brills under 

 12 inches, soles under 10 inches (all measured from the tip of the 

 snout to the base (root) of the caudal fin) may not he taken ashore 

 (or sold), hut must be thrown into the sea again when they are caught, 

 as soon as possible and, if possible, without impairing their vitality. 



How far mere local interests may ask for exceptions, for the .protection 

 of the little fishery at places where the plain i-; particularly small, is not a 

 question that can he decided by these investigations only. 



With regard to the other flat-fishes we can think of such exceptions 

 only with reference to the turbot at Bornhohn. 



The above prohibitions against the landing of fish under the size limit 

 must be modified as far as ground-seines (ammodytes-seines, etc.) are. concerned, 

 so that these fish are to he thrown into the sea again as soon as possible and. 

 if possible, without impairing their vitality. — 



I do not think that these answers contain the means of raising our flat- 

 fish fisheries to the highest pitch to which they may be raised by good laws. 

 This is a goal which, for many reasons, can scareelv lie reached as vet for a 



