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Kroners from the flat-fish fisheries, and it is the plaice which here gives by far tire 

 greater part of this sum. In the Cattegat soles, turbots, and brills are of some (not 

 very considerable) importance, and in the little fjords of Sealand and Fmien the 

 flounder gives a slight profit. — - 



Though the Cattegat, properly so called, and the Skager Rack are thus the 

 principal fishing-grounds where our sea-going cutters fish with their plaice-seines, 

 it must astonish to see the comparatively great value of the Limfjord fishery. It 

 has been necessary here to make the dots small to get room for them. On the 

 other hand it is remarkable to see how little the Issefjord gives, particularly when 

 we learn that the small quantity caught there chiefly consists in flounders and soles, 

 not in plaice as in the Limfjord. Before the breaking through of the Limfjord 

 towards the west (in 1825) there was, on the other hand, to judge from old ac- 

 counts, only a very insignificant plaice fishery here ; all the young plaice in this 

 fjord seem to immigrate yearly from the German Sea. (Cnrp. ante.) 



The Baltic Sea from Copenhagen to Gjedser and the southern shores of the 

 isle of Lolland are very deficient in marketable plaice, which agrees very well with 

 the fact that the plaice is here very small and, as a ride, scarcely able to propagate. 



When the seas around Samso are apparently even mor deficient in plaice than 

 the Great Belt, the reason evidently is that so few fishermen fish here, owing to the 

 isolated situation of this island and the unsatisfactory means of communication. 



The fishery south of a line Grenaa — Kidlen is carried on principally as 

 shore fishery with gill-nets, north of this line particularly with plaice-seines as 

 deep-sea fishery with large boats. 



In the Limfjord the fishery is a shore fishery, consequently with small boats 

 but chiefly with plaice-seine. 



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