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local cod fisheries was severely felt. The institu- 

 tion was a private one at first, and the expenses 

 were met by a local society in Arendal. All the 

 details of the hatching apparatus were elaborated 

 by Captain Dannevig, and it was here that cod 

 eggs were first incubated on a large scale. In 

 1889 the Government took over the work, and 

 voted money for the erection of a hatchery on 

 a larger scale, and during the period 1890-96 

 1,203,000,000 cod fry were incubated and were 

 liberated on the south coast of Norway, between 

 Christiansand and the Swedish frontier. Accord- 

 ing to Dannevig, the result of this work has been 

 that cod are rapidly increasing on the south 

 coast of Norway, and especially at the places 

 where fry have been "planted." 



Sea-fish hatching was begun in Scotland by 

 the Fishery Board in 1893. The report for that 

 year ^ contains a statement by the members, which 

 gives the reasons which induced them to begin 

 this kind of work. The great diminution among 

 the more valuable classes of flat fish, which had 

 taken place during the decade preceding the issue 

 of the report, is referred to, and it is pointed out 

 that the regulative measures with regard to beam- 

 trawling — the mode of fishing by which flat 

 fishes are principally obtained — adopted in Scot- 

 land were more extensive and were longer in 

 force than in any other country. Not only 



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