2Q 0. Nordgaard. [No. 3 



Fortunns holsatus, 

 Pasiphæa tar da, 

 Nyctiphanes norvegica, 

 Boreophausia inermis, 

 Parathemisto oblivia, 

 Eicthemisto corner essa, 

 bispinosa. 



That the coal-fish eats its own young as well as those of the 

 cod, has been proved by G. 0. Saks. Some of the said forms are 

 so important as to be an indispensible requirement for greater 

 fisheries. Collett has tims proved that the spring and summer 

 fisheries off our northern coasts are closely connected with the 

 appearance in great masses of Mallotus villosus and Boreophausia 

 inermis. And of these it is the latter that is the indispensible 

 requirement of the considerable sinking-net iishery that takes place . 

 in Nordland and Finmarken in summer. In the autumn catches of 

 coal-fish are often made in northern fjords by closing the fish up 

 in nets the ends of which are drawn in to the shore. In this 

 manner a catch was made of 31000 fish in Komagfjord in the 

 autumn of 1898. This conflux to the fjords I think is caused by 

 the hunt made by the coal-fish on herrings and Ommatostrephes... 

 Along all the West coast of Norway there occurs in December and 

 January an influx from the Sea of coal-fish going to spawn. 

 Judging from the catches that are made, there is good reason to 

 suppose that the greatest bulk of this influx takes place at the 

 northern coasts of our country. How far some food-search is mixed 

 up in the spawning migrations of the coal-fish and other fishes, is a 

 question to solve which there are not as yet materials enough to hand._ 



