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consider myself entitled to say, that I suppose there is fished in the Cattegat 

 as great a number of plaice yearly now as ever there was, nay perhaps more, 

 but many of them are, I think, thrown out again. — In our enclosed seas, how- 

 ever, the matter is perhaps somewhat different. 



I think, therefore, we need not trouble ourselves with that part of the 

 carp-breeder's task which consists in placing the tender fry in the drained 

 pond ; as far as we can see, nature itself takes care of that in the Cattegat and 

 SJcager Bad-: but I think it has been quite overlooked that if we fish the plaice 

 tvhile they are small, tve do not get so great profit by them as we might and ought 

 to hare. — In this only, as few. as I can see, the » destruction's, consists. 



It is impossible to state with certainty-how much the plaice which are 

 now fished in the Cattegat, weigh on an average; for the are at the various 

 seasons of the year, and at the various fishing-places, of a very different size- 

 Somewhat easier is it to estimate the size of the plaice which is sold at Frede- 

 rilcshavn. According to the weekly reports in »Dansk Fiskeriforenings Med- 

 lemsblad« there are sold great quantities of fish between (8) 10 — 14 lbs., and 

 there are sometimes on deeper water caught also large fish of c. 20 lbs. the 

 score; this however, occurs but rarely, and only on a very limited area 

 in the northinost or northeastern part of the Cattegat on 20 — 30 fths. In that 

 part of the Cattegat where the fishery is usually carried on (for instance Lsese- 

 Rende and Aalborg cove) the plaice never reaches such a size, and I do not 

 think we are much mistaken in estimating the average sise of the plaice which 

 are fished in the Cattegat and sold at this market, at c. 10 — 15 lbs the score; 

 deduction made of course of underzised fish*). 



Mr. Th. Brennum, fishmonger at Frederikshavn, has kindly informed me 

 that the average wholesale price of plaice of the various sizes a few years ago 

 was as follows: 



For fish of 8 — 9 lbs. the score the average price was c. 9,8 0re per lb. 



— - 10 ----- — - - 10,5 - - - 



- . — - 12 - - — - — - - 10,8 - - - 



- — - 14 - - — - — - - 12,5 - - - 



- — - 16 - - — - — - - 12,5 - - - 



— - 18 - - — - — - - 13,1 - - - 



— . - 20 - - — . ■ '- - - 13,75 - - - 



I do not speak here of »Frederiksliavn-plaice« from Skager Back and the German sea ; 

 they are generally much larger than the Cattegat-fish. 



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