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I shall now mention two other fisheries which have been briefly men- 

 tioned above, but want a closer examination: the fishery with ammodytes- 

 seines in the northmost Cattegat, particularly at the Skaw, and with eel-, 

 handseines in the western Limfjord. By these such small plaice are generally 

 caught that they cannot be used as human food, but at best may be 

 thrown before the swine: in other words: they are not saleable. Table V 

 will show what quantities of such little unsaleable plaice there are caught 

 with the said fishing-gear. Column 6, table V, for instance, shows the 

 take in 8 hauls with eel-handseines by Jegindtap. It' we consider the plaice 

 unsaleable with a length of ca. 7 inches to the tip of the caudal fin. more 

 than 500 unsaleable fish were caught in these 8 hauls. Every year many 

 thousands of hauls are made in the Limfjord with eel-handseines. so the 

 question is of a very considerable number of caught unsaleable plaice. 

 These multitudes of little fish are caught alive, and might easily be thrown 

 out again in a condition in which they are fit to live; how far tins is done, 

 I do not know. The whole plaice-fishery with eel-handseines in the Lim- 

 fjord lias been called forth by the prohibition against all use of plaice- 

 seines during the summer months. — 



Table V. column 10, shows the contents of a haul with ammodytes- 

 seine made by fishermen at the Skaw in order to catch sand-eels as bait 

 for their hooks; a little more than 100 unsaleable plaice were caught by it, 

 and many hundreds of hauls are made at the Skaw every year, while also 

 the other small meshed seines take unsaleable plaice there (for instance the deep- 

 seine). Also these fish might he thrown into the sea while they are still capable of 

 living, if the fishermen would take the trouble; but 1 do not think they 

 generally do so. These abuses however scarcely amount to such quantities 

 as in the Limfjord. With respect to this fjord I see no better means of 

 avoiding these abuses than a prohibition against the landing of plaice under 

 an official size limit, ami perhaps permission to use plaice-seines in the 

 summer. At the Skaw and other places where ammodytes-seiues arc em- 

 ployed, it will be difficult to forbid the use of them; but it might be made 

 compulsory on the fishermen, 1 think, as soon as possible to throw the 

 small plaice into the sea again. At any rate we must keep an eye upon 

 this fishery, and prevent it from spreading too much at places where the 

 young plaice live in great numbers, such as the case is at the Skaw ami 

 in the cove at Aalbtek. — 



In England they have a way of fishing Crangan vulgaris by means of 

 shrimp-trawl, which to a very high degree hurts the little flat-fishes, which 



