COUNCIL - APRIL 1912 — APPENDIX G — 114 — 



Appendix G 



Lecture by Dr. H ein eke 



on 

 the present position of his General Report on the Plaice. 



(Short resume). 



To my extreme regret I am still unable to place before you the complete 

 General Report on the Plaice question. I had certainly hoped to finish the work 

 by the 1 st of January of this year; it appeared, however, during the progress of 

 compilation, that this would be impossible. The Report was too comprehensive; 

 at any rate, more comprehensive than I myself had imagined. The printed matter 

 which I here lay before you today is only about Vsrd of the whole, and indeed 

 not even of the whole Report but of the first, practical part of it, dealing with 

 plaice fishery and protective legislation. The second, more theoretical part, on the 

 biology of the plaice must for the present be entirely laid aside, as being of less 

 practical importance for the time being. 



The reason why the General Report has become so comprehensive, and 

 necessitated so much more work than was contemplated at the beginning, lies in 

 the actual object of the Report; this being intended to serve as the fast basis 

 upon which the proposals for international protective legislation must rest. It is 

 therefore necessary that the Report should contain all that the international work 

 upon the plaice question has brought to light. From the previous international 

 work and from the individual reports upon the plaice must be collected and 

 compiled all that can be regarded as sufficiently proved facts and reliable results. 

 In other words: the General Report must and shall give a critically carried out, 

 that is to say, a scientific summary of all the results of previous practical and 

 scientific research bearing upon the plaice question which can be used as the only 

 and immediate basis for the practical proposals of the Central Committee. 



The manifold difficulties in the way of compiling such a Report, and the 

 resulting necessity of giving the same a more comprehensive form I will endeavour 

 to divide into four separate and specially important parts of the same. 



