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The earlier, shallow fishing-grounds in the Cattegat were tirsl fished 

 empty of large fish, then the fishery was removed to deeper and deeper 

 water in search of such. When in this way the earlier fishing-grounds had 

 been exempt from fishery for some time, half a year or a whole year, then it 

 often occurred that it would pay again to fish here for a short time, till again 

 there were only small fish left. 



Now the fishery is carried on so that the fishermen find out the places 

 where the largest and the greatest number of plaice are, and there they fish 

 them wp in a few days. The pursuit is then continued to other places, 

 and if the fishing-cutters that carry mi this fishery in the Cattegat had 

 not learnt to go round the Skaw in the best season and look up the plaice on 

 the western shore of Jutland in Skager Rack, the profit of the Cattegat-fishery 

 would have been even poorer than it is now; by the removal of the fishery in 

 the best months of the year to the western shore, the Cattegat is left a little 

 in peace, and the plaice get time to grow. The large fishing-fleet, however, 

 can very easily manage to keep the stuck in the Cattegat down in such a way 

 that the plaice never reach any considerable size, as they did 10 — 15 years 

 ago. For when it appears after some absence from a certain fishing-ground 

 that marketable fish have returned to it, the only explanation will generally 

 be that the young fish now have grown so much that they can give a decent 

 profit. <Jnly in the neighbourhood of the Skaw (for instance at Herthas Flak) 

 a larger emigration of plaice from the Skager Rack would not lie quite out of 

 the question, and this, after all, would scarcely occur to any very great extent*). 



In this way the plaice is kepi under a certain length, just as the grass 

 is cut in summer-time and the single blades thus constantly kept under a 

 certain length. Though of course there are some more individuals among 

 the plaice that are able to avoid the machine than among the blades of 

 grass, but in the main \ do think that this representation of mine agrees very 

 well with the facts in the Cattegat relative to the plaice, partly also with re- 

 spect to the turbot, brill, and perhaps the sole. 



it is a good thing, in a way, that we have come so far as to command 

 the wealth of (lie sea in such a perfect manner; and the way of fishing: to 

 take the larger fish and leave the little ones, is indeed so excellent that 



i Be it remembered that plaice in greater multitudes live only from the shore and 

 cut, on a depth of c, 50 70 fathoms. The Skager hack and the Norwegian fjords 

 belonging to this sea are therefore nearly destitute of plaice, with the exception 

 of the shallow places situated near the north western shores of Jutland. 



