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"When these fish after many hours of steam navigation arrive at Christiania 

 they are put into Salt water and live there, nearly all of them, till they find 

 buyers. 



But now the other ways of plaice-fishery: gill-nets and hooks'? Well, also 

 with such fishing-tackle a fishery is carried on, based on living fish, and 

 here too, consequently, the fish are caught alive. There are exceptions 

 however from both. 



When, for instance, in bad weather the nets cannot be brought ashore 

 for several days some of the jilaice, or all of them, may die in the nets. 

 This case is not by far the rule, on the contrary rather a rare exception, 

 so that we may here say that the fish, when they are caught, are gene- 

 rally able to live, though not in so good condition as in the seines. If this 

 were not so, net-fishery based on living fish, as it is carried on at many 

 places, would be quite unimaginable. 



But now the hooks, they do hurt the fish, certainly, and many must 

 die. — No, after all, not so man}' as we might expect. As a rule those 

 only die that have got the hook far down by swallowing it. By cautious 

 treatment the others will be able to live, when the hook is removed, and 

 also on this fishery a take of living plaice is based; but the mortality is no 

 doubt somewhat greater than by the net-fishery. The numbers of plaice, 

 however, winch are caught on hooks, are as nothing compared to those that 

 are caught in other ways. 



Of the other sorts of fishing-gear which I have not yet mentioned 

 more closely, and which may happen to catch plaice, viz. pound-nets and 

 tveels, I shall say only, that the fish here has, if possible, still greater vital 

 power than if it were caught in seines, so that, on the whole, it may be 

 said that the plaice in all the tvays in which it is generally caught east of the 

 SJcaiv, is alive and capable of being kept (dive in the moment it is caught, and 

 that this is proved by the fishery itself — by the way it is carried on, and the 

 way in which the fish are sold: both being based, in the main, on living plaice, 

 and might be based on these everywhere if wanted ; the fishery with hooks, 

 which is but of little consequence, being the only one likely to cause any 

 difficulties. 



By the fisheries which I have here mentioned more closely with reference 

 to the plaice, the latter are fished in such sizes that they are generally fit 

 for human food, even though they are often very small. The people in 

 the northern and western Jutland are not very particular in such matters. 



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