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arnmodytes-seines etc.), finally also in weels, mostly cod-weels and pound nets 



— and perhaps, in smaller numbers, in sofe-nets, cornets, and haddock-nets. 



— That plaice may also sometimes swallow the hooks intended for other fishes 

 is a matter of course; this, however, happens only to a small extent. 



The object of almost all plaice-fishery in our seas is fo catch the fish alive 

 and to keeptheni alive in pond or caul'. In this we succeed pretty well with re- 

 spect to all seine-fishery in pond-vessels, so that it is a rare thing to get dead 

 plaice in the seine. Personally I never saw it, and I doubt whether it will 

 ever happen under normal conditions; but I have heard it mentioned that 

 Hit- seine may be hauled in so quickly with a steam-winch that the fish may 

 be hurt. Such a thing, however, nobody will do more than once. I think, as 

 the fishery in that case is quite in vain. 



It is generally very easy for the plaice-seine fishermen in the large ves- 

 sels to catch the fish alive, and it is still easier in the small ones where the 

 hauls are shorter and the quantity of fish in the seine smaller. 



What is said here of the seines (plaice-seines), particularly adapted for 

 plaice-fishery, will hold good generally with respect to the other seines too, 

 which happen to catch plaice, such as sole-seine*, eel-handseines, and eel-trawl- 

 seines. As to the haddock-seine or the ground-seine, as it is used at the 

 Skaw and Aalbsek (and at a few other places), matters are a little different. 

 The plaice, to be sure, are fished alive in it, but as the seine is generally used 

 in the night, in darkness, and the whole take is hauled ashore on and in the 

 sand, the take certainly might live, if it were thrown out again soon, but if 

 is not intended fa he kept alive as the fishermeu have not. and cannot have 

 caufs lying in the water at the Skaw. After all. it is the case also with the 

 fishery carried on with little jolly-boats from the Skaw and Aalbsek and all 

 barbourless open shores that the take is not intended to be kept alive: but 

 also in these ca>es we must take it for granted that the vitality of the plaice, 

 when they are caught, is quite unimpaired. 



This it not the case with every species of fish. I need only mention 

 such as garfish, whitings, herrings, etc., even when they are caught in seine; 

 but the plaice is very tenacious of life, and can bear living out of water for a 

 long time without suffering any harm from it. I shall in this connection only 

 mention that I have had plaice sent to me in a dry box by rail from Struer. 

 which on arrival at Copenhagen were quite capable of living, and that the 

 fishmongers in Frederikshavn make use of this tenacity of life to send the 

 plaice living to Ghristiania per steamship in dry Imres. The fish must during 

 the passage lie in single layers, lor which reason the boxes have many floors. 



