STATISTICAL SECTION — JULY 1905 
Statistical Section 
Meeting of 19—20 July, 1905 
Agenda proposed by the Bureau: 
1. The publication of summaries of the ordinary market-statistics. 
2. Other problems to be dealt with in the international statistical publications: 
a. The destruction of small plaice, 
b. The fishing capacity of nets (nets-experiments), 
c. The distribution of fishes. 
First Sitting: Wednesday July 19 at 2 p. m. 
P. P. C. Hork, General Secretary, in the chair. 
Present also: WALTER E. ARCHER, WALTER GARSTANG, G. Gizson, H. Henxine, Fr. HEINCKkE, 
Jon. Hsorr, E. W. L. Hozr, H. M. Kvyze, Arraur T. Masterman, C. G. Jon. Petersen, H. C. REDEKE, 
D’Arcy W. THompson, Max WEBER and as guest Dr. A. C. JoHANsEN. 
Secretary: H. M. Kyrr. 
Dr. Hork, on opening the proceedings, said that this meeting of those in- 
terested in statistical matters was held (as was announced by President HerwiG at 
the meeting of Committee B that morning) for the purpose of considering the pro- 
posals brought forward by the Bureau with regard to the arrangement and publi- 
cation of international fisheries statistics (Agenda of the Council’s meeting § 7b—d). 
The chairman then briefly stated the objects to be gained by the discussions 
to follow. The Bureau had already made a beginning with the publication of 
fisheries statistics, especially those which are of importance from an international 
point of view (see Appendixes J and K of the General Report), and was prepared 
to carry on this work on its own responsibility in accordance with the powers 
granted it by the Hamburg meeting of the I. C. in February 1904. The principle 
