SMOLTS 27 
19 and August 26 there were captured, between 
Storholm and Brandasund, off the south coast of 
Norway, forty-three salmon and 124 grilse. After 
August 26 to the end of September,twenty-two sal- 
mon and two grilse were obtained, giving a total of 
191 salmon and grilse. Three of the grilse were 
small, viz., 46 cm., 46 cm., and 45 cm. (18 inches). 
In 1906 two fine-meshed mackerel nets were used 
by Mr. Waage’s men. One caught, between April 19 
and August 26, twenty-three salmon and forty-seven 
grilse, and five of the grilse were under 55cm. (21#in.), 
viz., 37, 42, 42, 46, and 47 cm. After August 26, 
twenty-seven salmon and four grilse were got, but 
none of the latter were now under 55cm. The other 
net caught between July 3 and September 29 forty- 
two salmon and grilse, but only one of the grilse was 
under 55 cm. 
In contradistinction to these results in the open 
sea, Herr Dahl points to the results of his fishing in 
the southern fjords in 1903, 1904, and 1905. He 
made 930 attempts with a fine-meshed net, and in 
this time only caught one specimen of salmo salar 
under 55 cm. 
His conclusion is that the young of the salmon, 
after leaving the rivers and fjords, pass to the open 
sea, and he declares that they occur constantly, and 
can be freely caught if suitable nets are employed in 
the natural habitats of young mackerel and herring. 
We have already seen that our Tay sparling net 
experiments showed that the salmon smolts seemed 
to make a bolt for the open sea after leaving the 
upper tidal water. We already know from the 
