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The periods of the year and the district or regions in which the fishe- 

 ries are carried on, a description of the fishing gear employed, including the 

 size of the meshes, statistics of the catches for a series of years, and the 

 commercial disposal of the herrings. 



These reports of the different countries to be published in one volume 

 of the publications of the International Council. 



B. Of this programme the committee are of opinion that the problems 

 under heads 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 12 are of the greatest practical importance and 

 are ready for investigation. It is therefore desirable to organize and carry out 

 international work upon these at the earliest opportunity. For these purposes 

 it seems first of all to be desirable that the Herring Committee should be con- 

 tinued and that it should be entrusted with the supervision of the investigations 

 and the preparation of the reports. In order to facilitate the work of the Com- 

 mittee the Committee should be allowed to propose to the Council that several 

 of its Members should be entrusted with the special treatment of separate parts 

 of this programme and when the consent of the Council has been given the 

 Committee should entrust such members with these duties accordingly. 



C. Further, in order to facilitate its labours, the Committee considers it 

 desirable, that a preparation of a more detailed programme for the following 

 points 1, 2, 3, and 12 should be more specially entrusted to Dr. Andersson, 

 Dr. Fulton and Dr. Hjort, and the points 4, 5 and 7 to Prof. Heincke, Dr. 

 Masterman, Dr. Redeke and Dr. Sandman. 



D. The Committee recommends that the work by Mr. E. Lea upon 

 Growth etc. (point 6), upon which he is engaged, should be completed before 

 special proposals are made for the continuation of work of this kind. 



E. It was decided that the Committee should have a meeting shortly 

 before the next meeting of the Central Council in order to arrange the detailed 

 programme and in order to deal with special proposals. 



Copenhagen 1st May 1914. 



^*8^- K. A. Andersson T. Wemyss Fulton 



Fr. Heincke Johan Hjort A. T. Masterman 



H. C. Redeke J. Alb. Sandman 



This programme should have been laid before the Council in the suggested 

 September meeting 1914, together with the results of the practical experiments 

 with the herring trawl, which have been carried out in order to elucidate the more 

 or less detrimental effect of the trawl. 



