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in elaborating this statistical material, had been discussed in the meeting of the 
Statistical Section and had been approved there. 
As the Council, when voting the expenditure for next year, had granted 
more money in view of an augmentation of the expenses for the statistical work 
of the Bureau, the President proposed to accept the conclusions of the report. 
This proposal was unanimously adopted. 
Under Head 7¢ of the Agenda the General Secretary reported, that the pro- 
posals of the Bureau with regard to the manner in which fisheries stati- 
sties, viewed from an international standpoint, may be arranged 
on an uniform or comparable basis, had been investigated by the Statistical 
Section and may therefore now be laid before the Couneil as proposals of this section. 
These proposals are as follows: 
“After the International Council had decided at its 3rd Meeting (Hamburg, 
February 1904), that the Bureau should undertake the elaboration and publication 
of the statisties dealing with fisheries, (especially those which are of importance 
from an international point of view) a large amount of time and labour has been 
devoted to performing this task. Appendixes J and K of the General Report are 
to be considered as the introduction, yet, at the same time, the first results of the 
work. Appendix J brings the existing statistical material together in the form of 
short descriptions of the principal sea-fisheries in the different countries. Appendix 
K summarises the available statistical data, in order to elucidate, if and how far, 
overfishing has taken place. In connection with this work a third publication is 
projected, dealing with the manner in which, judging from the study of the existing 
statistics, the statistics of the future may best be collected and arranged in the 
different countries. 
“In the meantime, however, the Bureau considers it advisable to continue 
the work of Appendix J and, beginning with 1903, to publish annual summaries 
of the ordinary market-statistics published in each country. With the assistance 
of Dr. Kyze a scheme has been drawn up, indicating the various matters to be 
dealt with in the international statistical publications, as follows: 
I. Summaries of the ordinary market-statistics, showing: ; 
1) the total quantity and value of each species landed in each country for 
the whole year; the common standards of kilogram and 100 marks or 
shillings being used. As in many statistics some of the species are not 
