FOURTH INTERNATIONAL FISHERY CONGRESS. 55 
The PRESIDENT. You have heard this most interesting communication 
that brings to us business that was begun three years ago. What is your pleasure 
in regard to the communication that has been thus submitted? 
A MEMBER. It is a matter of very great importance, and I move you, sir, 
that the communication be referred to the committee on resolutions. 
The PRESIDENT. Is the motion seconded? 
[The motion was duly seconded.] 
The PRESIDENT. The motion has been made and seconded. The matter 
is now open to discussion, if you care for discussion. If the chair hears no 
request, then 
Mr. CHARLES E. FRYER. I would like to ask Professor Vinciguerra whether 
it is proposed that the explorations of the Mediterranean in regard to the interests 
of the fisheries should be limited to the powers which adjoin the Mediterranean, 
or whether other countries would participate. I raise the question for the reason 
that quite recently some English fishing vessels have actually been fishing in the 
Mediterranean, having been tempted to try their fortune on the eastern side of 
the Straits of Gibraltar, and if such practices were to extend it would undoubtedly 
enlarge the sphere of inquiry in which any such committee as is proposed would 
be concerned. All the powers that are likely to take up fishing operations in the 
Mediterranean should, it seems to me, have a share in such a scheme of inves- 
tigations as is proposed. 
Another point to which I should like to call attention would be the great 
desirability of especially directing any investigation to those problems which 
immediately atfect the interests of the fisheries. This is a fishery congress, and 
although we all fully recognize that fisheries involve questions of interest in 
many different sciences, still our chief interest is that of fisheries, and I would 
suggest that, just as in the case of the North Sea investigations, the international 
council for which is now sitting in Copenhagen, the first and immediate points 
for consideration should be those which affect the future industrial welfare of 
fishermen and fisheries. 
The PRESIDENT. The stenographer has taken down the remarks of Mr. 
Fryer, and these remarks will become a part of the published reports of this 
congress. If there is definite action on the part of the congress required by Mr. 
Fryer, the chair will be very glad to entertain any motion to that effect; and 
will Professor Vinciguerra kindly reply to the queries that were put to him? 
Professor VINCIGUERRA. It is the intention of the committee which was 
proposed to invite all nations that have interests on the Mediterranean to take 
a part in these explorations, and three or four members have already been indi- 
cated, because their countries were well represented at the Geneva congress. 
All the other nations, not only of the Mediterranean, but also in the Adriatic and 
Black seas, will have a representative—Roumania, Russia, and also Germany, 
because Germany has a station on the Adriatic Sea; and the representative of 
Germany at the congress in Geneva made the proposition that also Germany 
