93 
(ca. 50 m below the level of the sea) above a depth of 1347 m. 
Later on I have obtained 7 young of the redfish, 38, 44, 45, 
45, 45,5, 46,5 and 49 mm long, which were collected in September 
1915 and 1916 at the landing place of the fishing station of Kars- 
sorssat (at Sydprøven in the outer part of Lichtenau fiord) when 
a strong west wind had been biowing. They are the smallest 
(youngest) redfish young which are known from West-Greenland. 
Next to them in size and consequently also in age we have 10 
specimens (47—66 mm long) which were given to the Museum 
from a physician in Greenland, Th. N. Krabbe, together with 
the information that these small fishes “in ca. 1900 were found 
in enormous quantities in the fiord at Godthaab; they froze up 
in the icefoot and thawed out of it again;” the last remark proves 
that it must have been in winter or in spring. Further two red¬ 
fish young, 65 and 69 mm long, were thrown on to the beach 
by a storm at Sukkertoppen March 3. 1916. Then we have the 
specimens of 61, 70, 71 mm, etc., recorded in the list of the draughts 
from the bo ttom of the Davis Strait. 
As fishing with ringtrawl was going on in the spring and during 
all the summer in the surface and in the intermediate water strata 
in many places at West Greenland, both in the fiords, at the coast, 
and in the Davis Strait, still without any redfish young being found, 
it is to be supposed that the very small young do not at all occur 
in the Greenland seas. During the passage to Greenland very 
small young were however caught by the “Tjalfe” in the northern 
Atlantic Ocean S. of Denmark Strait, in the surface, and above 
very great depths (ca. 800—1600 fms.). The places in which the 
young were taken were the following: 
58° 59’ N 
30° 50’ W. 
14.5.1908. 
St. 3 
The surface. 
Many specimens 
58° 24’ — 
34° 53’ — 
16.5.1908. 
— 6. 
— 
ca. 100 — 
57° 37’ — 
35° 17’ — 
20.5.1908. 
— 10. 
— 
Few — 
57° 41’ — 
35° 28’ — 
20.5.1908. 
— 11. 
— 
ca. 75 — 
58° 33’ — 
35° 49’ — 
17.5.1908. 
— 7. 
150 m wire out. 
ca. 100 — 
58° 05’ — 
37° 19’ — 
25.5.1908. 
— 12. 
The surface. 
Few — 
58° 08’ — 
39° 10’ — 
26.5.1908. 
-13. 
— 
ca. 40 — 
58° 08’ — 
39° 12’ — 
26.5.1908. 
— 14. 
150 m wire out. 
Few — 
These young were evidently newborn (it is a well known 
faet that Sebastes is viviparous) for they are only ca. 7—9 mm 
