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fishing methods with electric and other light, which are planned by the Danish 
biological Station.” 
This statement was received without discussion. 
Then the following recommendation was taken into consideration: 
“The Committee C, relying on the investigations now performed, recommends 
to aim at the conclusion of an international treaty between the nations fishing in the 
Kattegat, the object of which would be to prohibit the landing of plaice under an 
appropriate minimum size. 
“It is the Committee’s conviction, that the stock of plaice in the Kattegat 
is influenced in a high degree by the great intensity of the fishery, the chief result 
of this being, that young, immature, strongly growing fish are now for the main 
part caught; and that a greater production will be obtained, if this fish was allowed 
annually to grow somewhat larger than is possible now.” 
The president proposed to insert this recommendation of Committee C in 
the Proces-Verbal of the meeting, which proposal is accepted unanimously. In the 
same way his proposal to invite the Committees and the Conveners to continue 
and if possible to terminate the work in the two following years was carried. 
Under Head 7b of the Agenda the General Secretary reported on the 
statistical material received by the Bureau regarding the question of the 
destruction of small plaice. This report is as follows: 
“At the meeting of the International Council in February 1904 a resolution 
was adopted, that full and careful statistics should be collected on the question of 
the destruction of small fish. 
“In order to make the material as uniform as possible a special Circular of 
instructions was drawn up by the Bureau and communicated to the members of the 
Council during April 1904. (See Report of Administration for the second year, p. XII) 
“A very extensive. material on this subject has been sent in to the Bureau 
since February 1904. As may be seen from the Tables I & II of Appendix C, 
statistics have been sent in by Belgium, Denmark, England, Germany, Holland and 
Sweden ?. ; 
“The material hitherto collected with regard to this question concerns the 
plaice only. The size, place and date of capture of the fish measured have in 
1 Belgium has not yet sent figures specially referring to the size of the plaice landed but has 
promised to do so. Scotland has informed the Bureau, that the quantity of small plaice 
landed in Scottish harbours is of no importance. 
