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The Committee has at a meeting in Copenhagen on 27th April — 1st May 

 1914 drawn up the following programme: 



Programme of the International Herring Investigations. 



A. The herring committee proposes the following programme for the 

 future herring investigations: 



1. Yearly and monthly statistics of the herrings landed from each fishery 

 according to weight, value, methods of fishing, and place of capture. As 

 far as possible statistics of the disposal of the herring. 



2. Investigations of representative samples of the herrings landed to be made 

 as to size, number, weight, and general condition, especially as to maturity. 



3. Investigations of unsorted samples with regard to which the place and 

 time of capture are known, especially of spawning shoals as to sex, size, 

 age, and maturity. The age should be determined by a study of the 

 scales. 



4. Comparative investigations of the composition of catches made with dif- 

 ferent gear. 



5. Investigation of the younger stages of herring, especially in regard to their 

 distribution. 



6. Investigation of the rate of growth at all stages, especially by study of 

 the scales. 



7. Determination of the race differences by means of a study of morphological 

 characters according to a uniform method. 



8. Location of the spawning places, especially by the occurrence of the 

 eggs or newly hatched larvae. Investigation as to the nature of the bot- 

 tom at the spawning places. 



9. Investigation of the food of larval and postlàrval herrings. 



10. Investigation of the food and the condition of the older herrings at different 

 localities and in different seasons. 



11. Investigation of the migrations of herrings by means of marking experi- 

 ments. 



12. Hydrographical observations to be made in connection with the biological 

 investigations, where the fishing is going on, and on the spawning grounds. 



In order to facilitate the investigations it is desirable that a brief ac- 

 count should be prepared by each country of its various herring fisheries, 

 showing: — 



