ADMINISTRATION-REPORT 1905 —06 IR NT 
A little further explanation of this statement may be given here. The tables of 
the Bulletin not only show the available information regarding the fisheries of each 
country, they are also the forms which each country may follow in endeavouring 
to improve and perfect its own statistics. For this purpose, care has been taken 
to indicate in each case where the available data are imperfect or fall short of 
the standard required for international purposes. The Bureau has believed from the 
beginning that this method of procedure would be more efficacious and would lead 
more quickly to uniformity in essential matters in the statistics of each country, 
than if blank forms or schedules had been issued beforehand. The amount of 
cooperation so far received indicates that this method has been appreciated by 
most countries. 
With regard to the work during the past year Dr. H. M. Kyze has submitted 
the following report. 
The statistical work of the Bureau during the past year has consisted 
mainly in the preparation of the Statistical Bulletin, on the lines indicated in the 
program agreed to at the Copenhagen meeting of the Council in July 1905. "The 
first few sheets were laid before the statistical representatives at Aınsterdam and 
the form chosen for the Bulletin was agreed to there. The whole of Part I, 
dealing with the general statistics of each country for each region, is now com- 
pleted. The practice was made of sending the various sheets in proof to the re- 
presentatives of the different countries (except Russia and Finland), and in many 
cases requests were directed to the representatives for more material than was 
contained in their published statistics. With but few exceptions, all the coun- 
tries from which the material was sought forwarded additional data. In some 
cases information was forwarded without any request being made. The result of 
this cooperation has been, that the Bulletin contains in many regards a great deal 
more information than is to be found in the published statistics of the different 
countries. 
Part II of the Bulletin deals with one of the problems set aside for special 
treatment in the Copenhagen program, namely, the distribution of fishes. This 
Part is at present in the hands of the printer. As in Part I the endeavour is 
made to bring together on a uniform system the material existing in the different 
