COUNCIL — SEPTEMBER 1922 — 20 —^ 



The President here mentioned that the Bureau had received from Prof. 

 Ehrenbaum Part II of his Mackerel report, the first part of which was written 

 before the war. This report had now been considered by the Atlantic Slope Com- 

 mittee. Meanwhile, he now recommended that the report should be translated into 

 English and be printed at the cost of the Council which had already published the 

 first part. He further proposed on behalf of the Bureau, that an honorarium of 

 1000 Kr. should be paid to Prof. Ehrenbaum. 



These proposals were adopted by the Councü. 



Professor Pettersson stated that the Swedish delegates had been instructed 

 by their Government to ask the Council to consider the question of the protection 

 of plaice and haddock under certain minimum sizes. This instruction was received 

 too late for consideration of the question in any of the Committees. After discussion 

 it was agreed that the question of haddock should be referred to the Cod and 

 Haddock Committee. 



The President referred to a scheme of work on the witch which had been 

 prepared by Dr. Andersson in accordance with the wish expressed by the Council 

 last year. It was agreed that the preliminary investigations of the witch should be 

 entrusted to the Swedish Commission, but that the Cod and Haddock Committee 

 should be requested to keep themselves in touch with the Swedish Commission with 

 a view to furnishing them with any material bearing on the study of the wtch, 

 which they might procure in the course of their work. 



The President remarked that while considering the reports of the Sections 

 and Committees he also wished to draw attention to the report prepared by the 

 General Secretary, i.e. the "Report of Administration 1921—22", of which 

 draft-copies had been distributed to all the delegates for corrections ; he would ask 

 the delegates to return these copies with possible corrections to the General Secretary 

 before end of the month. But if they were not returned, it would be taken as granted 

 that they were agreed to. He would take the opportunity again to impress upon 

 the delegates, that their reports of work done should be submitted in separate 

 paragraphs each referring to the relevant programme or paragraph of a programme 

 adopted by the Council. 



Point 8 of the Agenda, 18th September (Proposals regarding the ad- 

 herence and contributions of certain countries) (continued). 



The President communicated to the Council that this point had been con- 

 sidered in five sittings of the Bureau which now wished to submit, and hoped that 

 the Council would accept, certain new proposals for dealing with the case of countries 

 whose financial circumstances owing to a very adverse rate of exchange are such 

 as to impose an intolerable tax if the normal rates of contribution are insisted upon. 



It would be remembered that the participating Governments accepted a 

 proposal that new countries might be admitted either in groups or as associates 



