Ocean research and the great fisheries . thwards on reaching theedge of the Norwegian depression. Ocean Research. Even this very condensed summary will be enough to suggestto any trawlerman that fishes are distributed very much as isthe small game , and to suggest reasons for certain puzzleslike the appearance of hake in the North Sea. As Hjort putsit : Helland-Hansen has shown that in the deeper layers thereis a circular current of Atlantic water in the North Sea, a branchof the Gulf Stream following the east coast of Scotland, turningnorth-east just before reaching the edge of the Norwegiand
Ocean research and the great fisheries . thwards on reaching theedge of the Norwegian depression. Ocean Research. Even this very condensed summary will be enough to suggestto any trawlerman that fishes are distributed very much as isthe small game , and to suggest reasons for certain puzzleslike the appearance of hake in the North Sea. As Hjort putsit : Helland-Hansen has shown that in the deeper layers thereis a circular current of Atlantic water in the North Sea, a branchof the Gulf Stream following the east coast of Scotland, turningnorth-east just before reaching the edge of the Norwegiandepression. The latter is, in parenthesis, the deep narrowtrench more than 110 fathoms below the surface which runsparallel to the south-west Norwegian coast from the latitudeof Stat to the Skagerrak. As a result the periphery of thecentral portion of the North Sea is bathed by water of much the 190 THE SMALL GAME OF THE SEA deep-water forms that have wandered in past Shetland, andonly very rarely get so far as the coast of Norway or the. 5a CQ « ^§ :3co S2 ^T3 ^ i O c3 ^^f^ c,0 3 ^ =« a;-r}< ^^^ ^^ si« ^b -ip
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