COMMITTEE A — FEBR.-MARCH 1906 (4) 
Under Head 1 (Investigations during the year 1906) the members 
reported on the investigations they !'would be able to make and the regions in 
which they would work. 
Dr. Hsort, Bergen, indicated what stations would be worked at by Norway 
The “Michael Sars” would be ready to begin the investigations about the 8th or 
9th of March, and during this cruise special attention would be paid to the distri 
bution of the eggs and larvae in the northern part of the North Sea, on the 
Romsdal Bank etc. Hydrographical observations would also be made at the same 
time. In May a second cruise would be made for the purpose of investigating all 
stages of the larvae and young fish. 
Prof. Hencxe, Heligoland, stated that they had collected a very rich mate- 
rial of larvae and young fish during 1904 and 1905 and the working up of this 
material would be one of the principal occupations during 1906. Hydrographical 
observations are constantly made in conjunction with the fisheries investigations 
and this would also be the case in future. So far as these investigations were 
concerned he believed that Germany would make the following cruises with the 
“Poseidon” in the year 1906: 
Cruise of February 1906: in search of eggs and larvae. 
Cruise of end of March to middle of April 1906: in search of eggs and larvae. 
This cruise would extend well into the Baltic (Bornholm), then to the Nor- 
wegian Channel, afterwards to the southern North Sea and back to Heligo- 
land. Attention would be paid not only to Gadus aeglefinus and morrhua 
but also to G. virens, Esmarki etc. 
Cruise of June 1906: to investigate the occurrence of the young of Gadus morrhua 
in the southern North Sea. 
Cruises would be made in the later months of the year in continuation of the 
general investigations. 
Dr. Perersen, Copenhagen, stated that as the “Thor” did not require to be 
again in the Icelandic waters during the summer he could utilize it more for the 
investigations in the North Sea. To complete the material collected in the Northern 
Ocean, at Iceland etc. the ,Thor* would be engaged in the Skager Rak and Katte- 
gat as also in the North Sea as far as the Dogger Bank and especially in the 
collection and investigation of the eggs, larvae, pelagic young fish etc. of the 
gadoids. He described the main lines of the cruises he thought would be made 
up to September and mentioned that hydrographical observations would also be 
made on the cruises. 
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