Researches on the Distribution, Biology, and 
Svstematics of the Greenland Fishes. 
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By 
Ad. S. Jensen. 
During my leadership of the practical-scientific investigations 
along the colonized part of West Greenland, carried out on board 
the brig „Tjalfe" for the Danish Ministry of the Interior, in the 
years 1908 and 1909, I had rich opportunities of studying at first 
hånd the Greenland fish fauna which previously I had only known 
from Museum material and the literature. 
A preliminary account of the biology of the economically more 
important species and a proposition with a view to a more rational 
utilization of the food fish on behalf of the native inhabitants were 
published in the official reports on Greenland 1 ). Of the scientific 
investigations of the Greenland fish fauna, however, only a paper 
on the Selachians has as yet been published 2 ). Now papers dealing 
with the other fishes from time to time will appear in „Vidensk. 
Meddel, fra Dansk Naturhist. Forening", the beginning being made 
in the present volume with Sebastes marinus. The investigations 
are based not only on the rich material collected by the „Tjalfe" 
Expedition but also on other material contained in the Museum, 
and on informations on the Greenland fishes obtained from the 
literature. 
! ) Indberetning om Fiskeriundersøgelserne ved Grønland i 1908 og 1909, 
ved Ad. S. Jensen. Beretninger og Kundgørelser vedrørende Kolo¬ 
nierne i Grønland, 1909, Nr. 2 og Nr. 5. 
2 ) The Selachians of Greenland, by Ad. S. Jensen. Mindeskrift for 
Japetus Steenstrup, Bd. II. XXX, Kbhvn. 1914. 
