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near the coasts, but is able to live pelagically far out in the ocean above 
the greatest depths. He namely met with large quantities of redfish 
young in the sea S. and W. of Iceland in any place where he fished 
for them, and caught up to 5000 young in a hauling of 20 minutes. 1 ) 
By investigations from the Norwegian ship “Michael Sars” thou- 
sands of redfish young were likewise found all over the Norwegian 
sea. This faet also indicates that a great stock of redfish exist 
and spawn in these intermediate strata of the sea. 2 ) 
The author of this paper' further met with newborn young of 
redfish in the surface of the northern Atlantic, S. of the Denmark 
Strait, where the depths were ca. 800—1600 fms. (compare p. 93). 3 ) 
) 
11. Systematic remarks. 
In the present paper the specific name of Sebastes marinus has 
been used in the most restricted sense of the words, exeluding 
any intermixture with S. viviparus of which no traces have been 
found at Greenland. 4 ) 
The author, however, sides with the zoologists who look upon 
5. marinus L. and 5. viviparus Kr. as distinet species. Of later times 
this opinion has been strongly maintained especially by G. Swe- 
nander 5 6 ) who informs us that both species are to be found side 
by side in the same fiord (Trondhjemsfjorden), that is, in surround- 
ings exaetly alike; nevertheless they are easily distinguished from 
x ) Johs. Schmidt: Fiskeriundersøgelser ved Island og Færøerne i Som¬ 
meren 1903 (1904), p. 46, Tavle V. 
2 ) Compare Murray & Hjort, 1. c. p. 648. 
8 ) I take the opportunity here to State that also during the Ingolf-Exped- 
ition small young of Sebastes marinus were collected S. and S. W. of 
Iceland, far from land and above great depths (800—1135 fms.). As these 
finds have not been published before, I give a list of them here (the 
specimens are kept in our Museum)- 
62° 40’ N. 19° 05’ W. 1.6.1896. 
62° 06’— 22° 30’— 3.6.1896. 
60° 30’ — 26° 54’ — 12.6.1896. 
60° 23’ — 27° 25’ — 13.6.1896. 
61° 44’ — 30° 29’ — 18.7.1895. 
5 specimens: 8,5 —14 mm 
9 — 7,6 — 12 — 
5 — 10-15 — 
7 — 12-17 — 
8 — 12—14 — 
4 ) Sebastes viviparus evidently is a more Southern fish, its northern 
limit being the western part of Norway (Trondhjemsfjorden), the south- 
western part of Iceland, and New Foundland. 
6 ) Det Kgl. Norske Vidensk. Selsk. Skrifter 1905, No. 9, pp. 7—12. 
