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Such as I have here represented the throwing out of the fish under 

 the size limit with reference to the cutters, it will be also, pretty nearly, 

 with respect to the fishery with seines and nets in smaller boats, with that 

 difference, however, that the quick sorting will be so much the easier, the 

 smaller the take is ; and the take in the smaller boats is of course generally 

 smaller than in the larger boats. On the other hand there is also the 

 drawback, if the small boats during the fishing are caught in a storm, that 

 there will be no time at all for the sorting till the boat has' come ashore, and 

 then, generally, all the fish will be dead. The latter misfortune will oftener 

 occur to boats fishing with nets, than to those fishing with seines; for with 

 nets the picking out of the fish takes a very long time, and it whl often 

 be necessary to go out fishing in worse weather than with seines ; for when 

 the nets are out, they must be saved at any price, if possible, as the fish 

 would suffer too much by remaining for several clays in them; at last 

 they will die and be eaten by snails, star-fish, and other animals. The 

 mortality among the fish taken by net-fishery is certainly somewhat greater 

 than by seines; but according to my experience it is nowhere so great 

 that it would not profit the fishery considerably if the flat-fish under the 

 size limit were thrown out again when caught alive. — 



Turbots, brills, and soles are very rarely caught on hooks, as these 

 are generally used with us in the Cattegat, and the number of plaice 

 which are hooked in the whole country are of very little moment com- 

 pared to the whole fishery. 



The flat-fish which are caught more accidentally in other sorts of 

 fishing-gear, intended for other species of fishes, may, no doubt, be thrown 

 into the sea again alive nearly without any exception. — 



That our fisheries, particularly the great sea-going ones, are based on 

 the catching of living fish, is a great advantage to us in the carrying out 

 of regulations concerning fish under a size limit, as already mentioned 

 above. — To judge from their statements in literature the Englishmen are 

 situated far more unfortunately, as their great fisheries are based on fish 

 ■packed in ice, consequently on dead fish ; and by fishing with their big trawl, 

 which as a rule is kept out for several hours at a time, so that the fish 

 caught in it are dragged quickly along the bottom for a long time, the 

 mortality among the fish is very great. 



The English have seen already that the manner in which the trawl is 

 used with us at Esbjerg, as also by the Germans there, is far more 

 favourable to the vitality of the fish. Roll writes on this question 





