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Summary
With the establishment of the Danish Biological Station in
1889, Danish fisheries gained a marine biology institution,
the object of which was to provide support and new know-
ledge to promote the yield and profitability of commercial
fishing. From the 1890s right up to the 1950s, so-called
“transplantations of plaice”, i.e. large-scale annual moving
of small plaice, were made from the North Sea and the west-
ern Limfjord to inner Danish coastal waters under the man-
agement of the Biological Station. The biologists believed
that they could provide documentation showing that moving
plaice from “overpopulated” growth areas to “underpopu-
lated” areas with good conditions for growth contributed to
a significantly increased yield for the total Danish fishery.
The first state-supported transplantations were made in
the Limfjord in 1892, when fish from Nissum Broad were
moved to Thisted Broad. The transplantations aroused the
interest of the manager of the Biological Station, C.G. Joh.
Petersen, who documented their value during the following
years and thus gained actual government-organised trans-
plantations from 1908 onwards. From 1.5 to 2.2 million
small plaice were transplanted annually into the Limfjord,
and from 1928 the activities were extended to include trans-
planting plaice from Horns Reef off Esbjerg to the waters
of the Belts and the southern Kattegat. In the 1930s, Danish
biologists were among Europe’s leaders in the field, and fish
from the North Sea were now also being transplanted to the
Oslo Fjord and the Swedish west coast. The Danish state
also financed transplants of plaice from Horns Reef to Dog-
ger Bank in the central North Sea.
The transplantations continued after the Second World
War, but during the 1950s it became increasingly clear to
biologists that the yield no longer seemed to justify the costs
of transplanting. Extensive new studies were therefore com-
menced in 1953, and after five years, it was concluded that
the transplantations could no longer be done profitably, and
the minister for fisheries decided to stop them. However, this
occasioned the most heated debate to date between Danish
commercial fishermen and the government representatives
whom the fishermen had hitherto viewed as “their minister”
and “their biologists”. The fishermen’s violent criticism of
the minister and the government fisheries and marine stud-
ies was not successful and did not change the decision to
cease the transplantations, but in relation to the expert bio-
logical knowledge in particular, the course of events was a
forewarning that the future relationship between fishermen
and biologists would be faced with challenges concerning
the role of research in relation to future fisheries regulation
and establishing of catch quotas.
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