COUNCIL — FEBR.-MARCH 1906 99 
taken part in the international cooperation on the understanding that such inter- 
national procedure would be of practical importance for the fisheries. 
On behalf of Finland Mr. J. Alb. Sanpman read the following: 
Considering that a continuous diminution of the catch of salmon has taken 
place for several years in the rivers of Finland and in the neighbouring seas sur- 
rounding that country, and that complaints of the same nature have also been 
made by other countries bordering on the Baltic, it is asked, whether the Inter- 
national Council for the Study of the Sea would take measures to promote in an 
official way the conclusion of an international treaty between the states round the 
Baltic, in order that the stock of salmon might be maintained and the catch 
increased by the erection, in the states concerned, of hatcheries where the greatest 
possible quantities of salmon might be bred. 
The representatives of Great Britain and Ireland, Mr. WALTER E. ARCHER 
and Prof. D’Arcy W. Thompson presented the following resolutions: 
I. That with a view to enabling the Council to reach conclusions as to 
1. the influence of the present methods of fishing on the productiveness of the 
fisheries in respect to: 
a. cod, 
b. haddock, 
c. plaice, and 
2. whether any measures can be adopted for increasing such productiveness 
either : 
a. by restricting the destruction of undersized fish, or 
b. by restricting specific methods of fishing in definite areas or by any 
other means. 
The participating states should be asked to supply the evidence in their 
possession in time for the next annual meeting of the Council; and that 
meantime at this meeting the Council should suggest draft forms or sche- 
dules on which such information should be tabulated. 
II. That it is desirable that the Council should include in their Report a summary 
of ascertained facts regarding the natural history of the Herring, especially 
such as throw light upon the course of its migrations and on the relation (if 
any such be proved) between the distribution of the fish and the distribution 
of temperature (or any other physical phenomena) in the sea. 
