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long, 1 ) and many of them still have a yolk sack attached to the 
abdomen. The above named young, 27,5—49 mm long, collected 
in September and October at South Greenland, most probably were 
ca. half a year old, and those collected in winter or spring at Godthaab 
and Sukkertoppen, 47—69 mm in length, probably ca. 9 months old. 
Through the facts pointed to in the above I have come to the 
conclusion that however widely distributed the redfish is at West 
Greenland it does not breed there, and that the older pelagic fry, 
met with there, has come floating with the sea-current from afar. 
And the sea from which the fry has come, is for biological and 
hydrographical reasons supposed to be Denmark Strait. As above 
named partly the “Tjalfe” has proved great numbers of newborn 
redfish young to be standing pelagically in the northern Atlantic 
Ocean S. of Denmark Strait in the month of May, partly Dr. 
Joh s. Schmidt by his examinations, undertaken in 1903, has 
proved that large quantities of redfish fry are found in May and 
June in the sea S. and W. of Iceland. 2 ) 
With the warm current going north along West Iceland the fry may 
be taken northwards and then westwards with the western branch 
of the Irminger current across the sea to East Greenland; here 
the warm volumes of water meet with the cold polar current going 
south, and partly settie below it, whilst pelagic redfish young 
rise into the polar current, and with this current some of them 
may reach the coast of East Greenland. It is really a faet that 
older redfish young are found here, for, as will be further dis- 
cussed in connection with the occurrence of the redfish at East 
Greenland, redfish young, ca. 22—30 mm in length, are found in 
great numbers at the beach at Angmagssalik, 65° 40’ N, in the 
month of June, and some older young (29—45 mm) in October. 
There is no doubt that this is the fry which was born in spring in 
Denmark Strait. With the polar current, or perhaps with the warm 
water outside of or below this current, mueh of the fry may, besides, 
be taken southwards along the east coast of Greenland, round Cape 
0 According to C o 11 e 11, the length of the young of S. marinus is ca 6 mm 
at the moment of birth. (Forhandl. Vidensk. Selsk. Chria. 1879, No. 1, p. 7.) 
2 ) Johs. Schmidt: Fiskeriundersøgelser ved Island og Færøerne i Som¬ 
meren 1903, p. 46 og Kortet, Tavle V; Skrifter udg. af Kommissionen f. 
Havundersøgelser, No. 1, 1904. 
