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The Central Bureau has in the course of 1914 received the following communi- 

 cations from the Chairman of the Herring Committee: 



Report 



of 



investigations of Norwegian spring herring, March 1914. 



vJn the 18th of March of this year, an excursion was made by the undersigned 

 to the spring herring district on the west coast of Norway. In the course of this 

 visit, two hauls (stœng) of herring were observed, oneatFugk, (Lat. 60° 10' N.,Long. 5° 4' 

 E.), the other at Brandesund, (Lat. 59° 54' N., Long. 5° 6' E.), the distance between 

 the two localities being 17'. 



The hauls were made with the ordinary fine-meshed shore seine, the mesh of 

 which is so small as to take all sizes of herring which occur in the spring shoals. 



Samples from these two hauls were taken by the fishermen, and subsequently 

 examined by us in the following manner: 400 fish from the Brandesund sample, and 

 300 from that taken at Fuglo were measured by the participators in the investigation, 

 acting together, the measurements being taken in whole cm. Determinations of sex 

 were also made, and three scales taken for subsequent determination of age. This 

 last was carried out at the office of the Director of Fisheries, in Bergen, each investigator 



Beobachter 

 Investigator 



Dr. Reichard . . . 



BjERKAN 



Dr. Andersson . . 



Dr. Hjort 



Prof. Ehrenbaum 

 Lea 



Dr. MOLANDER. . . 



Lokalität 

 Locality 



Anzahl Ind. der 

 ganzen Probe 



No. of individuals 

 in whole sample 



Fugl0 



100 

 100 

 100 



Anzahl der 



untersuchten 



Präparate 



No. of prepared 



spec. exam. 



100 

 98 

 97 



Dur^îhschnittswerte ( 

 Averages / 



FuglB. 



Durchschnittswerte J, B^andesund. 



