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The northernmost of the above named stations are situated in the middle 
part of Disko Bay; along the eastern side of this bay the redfish is, ac- 
cording to the statement of people acquainted with the localities, caught at 
Akugdlit (in winter in sleighloads, large fishes, 3 — 4 kg the piece), Christnns- 
haab (off Savik), Claushavn, Rodebay and Kekertak. From Jakobshavn Van¬ 
hoffen 1 ) obtained a specimen (ca. 450 mm long), and the Zoological Museum 
also has a small specimen from there. 
Vanhdffen writes that S. marinus belongs to the fishes having their 
northern limit already S. of Umanak Fjord; this is, however, not right, for our 
Museum has a specimen from Umanak. and Louis Mathiesen, formerly 
manager of this colony, States as follows in reply to an inquiry from my part 
about the occurrence of the redfish in the district of Umanak: „At Ikerasak 
it is now and then obtained when fishing of Greenland halibut is going on, 
sometimes a few specimens are also caught in other places at the fiord, but 
at the colony itself only once in a while“. With the Umanak fiord the northern 
limit of the distribution of the redfish at West Greenland has most prob- 
ably been reached, for, according to the united statements^ of several Danes 
appointed there, it is never known to have been caught or seen in the district 
of Upernivik. 
Sebastes marinus thus ranges from the most Southern point 
of West Greenland upwards on to ca. 71° N., both in fiord s, 
along the coast, and out in the Davis Strait. The depths 
in which it may be met with are from ca. 30 to 470 fathoms. 
2. Propagation and a supposed drifting of the fry from 
Denmark Strait to the west coast of Greenland. 
The eggs of specimens, examined by me in June andjuly, were 
very small ( 0,2 — 0,38 mm in diameter), faintly yellowish and opaque. 
This unripe State of the eggs agrees well with the faet that the Sebastes 
marinus is known in other places to breed in spring; 2 ) consequently 
the females, collected in summer, still had a long time left for 
the ripening of the eggs. It was, however, strange that no fry of 
the redfish was to be found at Greenland neither in spring nor 
in summer. Not until September 25. (1909) young of the redfish 
were taken with the ringtrawl of „Tjalfe“, 9 specimens of the 
following lengths: 27,5, 28, 30,5, 32, 36, 36, 40, 41,5 and 43 
mm; they were caught at 60° 05’ N. 46° 35’ W., near the surface 
x ) Gronland-Exped. d. Gesellsch. fur Erdkunde, II, 1, 1897, p. 92. 
2 ) According to Collett, it breeds at Norway as a rule from the middle 
of April to the middle of May (Vidensk. Selsk. Forhandl. Chria., 1879, 
No. 1, p. 7). 
