COUNCIL — JULY 1905 — APPEND. E 
Appendix E 
Brief Report on the Nets-experiments 
organised by the Bureau of the International Council 
by 
HA. M. Kyte 
(With 5 Tables) 
As these experiments are still in progress, only a brief notice of the prin- 
cipal results so far obtained will be given here. A description of the apparatus 
employed and a detailed account of the separate experiments will be given later. 
Table I gives a general survey of the experiments which have so far been 
reported on to the Bureau. Work has also been carried on in this direction in 
other countries, but reports from these have not yet been received !. 
The most complete series of experiments so far have been made by Sweden 
and Belgium. 
The principal feature of the Swedish experiments is the information 
they yield regarding the relative quantities of fish living on rough or stony ground. 
By reason of this habitat, these fish are for the most part safe from capture by 
the trawl or similar fishing-apparatus, though not from lines or gill-nets, i. e. nets 
similar to herring-nets but fixed on the bottom. In the Swedish experiments 
eill-nets have therefore been employed to determine the relative abundanee of the 
principal food-fishes on muddy, sandy and rough ground (see Table II). A very 
suitable fishing-ground in the Kattegat (‘Lilla Middelgrund”) was chosen, and similar 
nets were set out, as nearly as possible simultaneously, on different kinds of 
bottom-soils. 
1 Since writing the above, a report has also been received from Scotland, but too late for 
insertion here. 
