Work of 
the Committees 
Committee À 
Committee B 
Committee C 
ADMINISTRATION-REPORT 1904—05 == XVI — 
The following report may be made concerning the work of the Committees: 
Committee A (Convener, Dr. Joan Hiont, Bergen). The Committee has 
continued its researches on the biology of the cod and other Gadoids and has 
reported on this subject to the meeting of the Committee in July 1905. It was 
resolved at this meeting that these investigations should be continued until the 
spring of 1907, and that they should also embrace, as far as possible, the natural 
history and race-differences etc. of the herring. A short report on the work of 
the Committee has been sent in by the Convener and is given as Appendix B to 
this administrative report. 
"Committee B (Convener, Mr. WALTER Garstane, Lowestoft). It appeared 
from the discussions at the meeting of the Committee in July 1905, that the 
researches which have been continued during the financial year 1904—05 will be 
brought to a close towards the spring of 1907. A final report on the Committee’s 
work will then be given. These investigations chiefly concerm the natural history 
of the plaice, but they also have regard for the other fishes caught with the trawl. 
It was agreed, that these investigations should in future deal specially with the 
following points: 
1. Analysis of the hauls of the trawl, especially with regard to the quantities, 
length, maturity etc. of the plaice. 
9. Continuation of the experiments on the marking of plaice for the study of 
the migrations, as also of the growth of the plaice. 
3. Distribution of the age-groups, judging not only from the size of the fishes 
but also using the otolith-method. 
4. Distribution of the eggs and larvae for the determination of the spawning- 
places ete. 
. The food of the plaice and other fishes and the mapping out of the feeding- 
grounds of these animals. 
Or 
A short report on the work of the Committee in the year 1904—05 has 
been sent in by the Convener and is given as Appendix G to the present 
report. 
Committee G (Convener of G 1: Dr. Fu. Tryeom, Stockholm; of € 2: 
Dr. C. G. Jou. Petersen, Copenhagen). A detailed review over the work of this 
Committee in the financial year 1904—05 is to be found in the Proceedings of the - 
meeting of July 1905. No special report on the work of this Committtee has been 
published in the General Report for the first two years of the international invest- 
igations. At the meeting of the Committee in July 1905 the desirability was con- 
