ADMINISTRATION-REPORT 1905—06 — XVII — 
countries dealing with this subject. Where uniformity could not be attained the 
lines are indicated on which it may be reached. 
With the aim of securing uniformity in all essential matters in the statistics 
of the different countries, in the first place for the North Sea fisheries, a circular 
will be drawn up as soon as the second part of the Statistical Bulletin can be sent 
out in proof and forwarded to the representatives of each country concerned in 
the fisheries statistics. In this circular attention will be called to the main difficulties 
requiring settlement before uniformity can be reached. The proposals with regard 
to the future work will depend in great measure on the answers to this circular. 
Mr. Marıus Nieusen and Mr. C. E. Krücer have been assisting the statistical 
department of the Bureau as calculators during the preparation of the first volume 
of the Statistical Bulletin. 
Problems As belonging in part to the work of the Bureau durmg the year 1905—06, 
Re it has to be mentioned here that the Bureau in the course of January 1906 applied 
to the different members of the International Council, in order to learn whether | 
there were any questions (and if so, of what nature) concerning which their govern- 
ment wished to receive a summary of results or a definite expression of opinion 
on the part of the Couneil. In reply definite questions were laid before the Inter- 
national Council at its meeting on March 3rd 1906 on behalf of the governments 
of Denmark, Finland, Great Britain, Holland, Russia and Sweden, and the Council 
was requested to kindly give an answer or express an opinion on each of these 
questions, if possible before the end of the five-years period (July -1902—July 1907). 
A list of these questions has been published in the protocol of the Amsterdam 
Meeting of the International Council, pp. 11—27. The Bureau has made a be- 
ginning with the treatment of the questions, from which it has appeared that some 
of them could be answered already by means of the available material (results of 
the investigations, statistical data ete.), while for the remainder it appeared desirable 
to wait for the results of the investigations and observations still in progress. The 
Bureau will endeavour to obtain the decision of the International Council regarding 
the questions of the first group at an extra-meeting of the Council to be held in 
autumn of this year. 
