COUNCIL — JULY 1905 18 
Pt. 3: Migrations of the Herring 
I. The Committee recommends, that greater attention should from now 
onwards be paid to the natural history of the herring and that regular 
investigations should be instituted in the various countries on this point: 
Il. In each of the participating countries some fixed regions or stations should 
be chosen, at which regular observations should be made on the occur- 
rence of the herring-shoals, on the spawning places and periods of the 
herring, on the occurrence of the herring fry ete.; hydrographical investi- 
gations should be carried on simultaneously. At these stations also material 
should be collected for exact anatomical investigations. 
III. A portion of the material collected should be studied in accordance with 
the recent methods for the investigation of races. 
After short deliberation the proposals and recommendations of Committee A 
were accepted with unanimity. 
For Committee B (Natural History of the Plaice) the following 
resolution is read by the Convener, Mr. WALTER GARSTANG: 
“The members of Committee B having read the Provisional Report of the 
Convener on the Natural History of the Plaice express their thanks to Mr. GARSTANG 
for the pains he has taken. 
“They wish it to be understood, that they do not accept responsibility for the 
conclusions contained in this report; but they recommend the International Council 
that the work of the Committee should be continued for a further period of two 
years in order that they may be in a position to draw up a definitive repo % 
This resolution is also accepted by the Council. 
For Committee C (Fisheries in the Baltic) (Conveners Dr. F. TryBom 
and Dr. C. G. Jon. Petersen) in the first place the following statement concerning the 
eel (Anguilla vulgaris) and proposed by Dr. PETERSEN is read: 
“The Committee GC wishes to state, that through the researches of the 
Committee (those of Dr. F. Trysom in the Baltic, those of Dr. A. C. Jonansen in the 
North Sea and especially Dr. Jou. Scamnr’s discovery of the spawning places of the 
eel in the Atlantic Ocean) the biology of the eel in North-Europe is now in the 
main elucidated. Thus, it can now be considered as proved, that the eel does not 
spawn in fresh water and not in the Baltic but in great depths and at a con- 
venient temperature — therefore not in the Norwegian Sea. The Committee holds 
it possible, in consequence, to augment the catch of migrating eels especially in the 
waters of Denmark and Sweden to a large extent, if only the fishing methods can 
be improved. It looks forward with great interest to the success of the new 
