﻿Appendix III. 

 The yearly Value of our Flat-fish fisheries. 



With a Chart. 



»The Value of the Flat-fish fisheries in the Danish Seas, 1891, graphically 

 represented «, which is attached to this report, is based on the official stati- 

 stics, and is intended to give a passably correct idea of the places in the seas 

 where tin- fish are caught, by means of red dots <m the chart, a dot for each 1000 

 Kroners. The statistics does not give such special information of the exact spots 

 where the fish are caught, as the chart, hut the dots are distributed to the best 

 of my knowledge within the limits indicated by the statistics .• moreover, I have tried 

 to supplement my own knowledge, acquired through several years of intimate 

 acquaintance with the fishery, with the experience of well-informed men, among 

 whom particularly Lieutenant Hansen has been of great help to me. 



When 1 have chosen the year 1891, the reason is that we have statistics for 

 this year of the Danish fishery in the German Sea and the Skager Rack as well 

 as within the Skaw; moreover the said year, for aught I know, may very well he 

 looked upon as an average year, so that the general impression it gives will apply 

 also to other years. We see immediately how much more important the fishery 

 is in the Gattegat and the Skager Rack (as far as Hanstholmeri) than in the other 

 seas the German Sea and the smaller n-ntcrs, the latter, evidently, because there 

 are not very many flat-fishes, the German Sea because the Danes only fish very 

 little there. The Limfjord is the richest of our inshore waters, giving '200,000 

 Kroners a year. While the German Sea. from Eshjenr as far as Hanstholm, yields 

 an income of a little more than 100,000 Kroners*), and the smaller seas at Funen 

 and Sealand nearly 150,000 Kroners, th Cattegat has over 700,000 Kroners, and 

 theSkager Rack more than 300,000 Kroners (The Skaw being included in (lie Catte- 

 ■_i : 1 1 . All this counted together gives consequently an income of nearly l 1 _, million 



*) The statistics of this sea does not include tl • months of January & February 

 1891; but the profit on flat-fishes in that time is so small that it can scarcely have 

 any g eater influence on the matters here represented. 



