Work of 
the Committees 
Committee A 
Committee B 
Committee C1 
Commission € 2 
ADMINISTRATION-REPORT 1903-04 — XVII — 
The following may be stated concerning the work of the Committees: 
Committee A (Convener, Dr. Joan Hsort, Bergen) has continued its 
researches on the natural history of the cod, and on the cod fisheries in the region 
under observation; it will draw up a report of this work in the year 1905. A 
preliminary report was prepared by the convener at the beginning of this year and 
distributed at the meeting of Committee A at Hamburg in February 1904. In his 
further report given as Appendix B to this administrative report, the convener 
gives some information regarding the material sent to him by various members of 
his Committee. 
Committee B (Convener, Mr. WALTER Garstane, Lowestoft) was originally 
formed for the study of the problems of over-fishing in general, but from consider- ~ 
ations of utility it was obliged later to restrict itself to the biology of the Pleur- 
onectidæ and of other fish caught in the trawl. The biological investigations for 
the solution of the problems concerned with the trawl fisheries are being carried 
out for the most part by the investigation vessels. In addition to the report given 
at the meeting in Amsterdam, December 1903, the convener has sent in the fur- 
ther report of the work of his Committee, added here as Appendix C. 
Committee C1. The convener is Dr. Fm. Trysom, Stockholm. Since 
April 15t 1903 Cand. Arr Worrepær has been working as assistant to this Com- 
mittee. In addition to the preparation of the Swedish portion of the treatise “Die 
Ostsee-Fisherei in ihrer jetzigen Lage”!), the convener and his assistant have been 
engaged in various investigations appertaining to the programme of Committee C. 
A short report is added here as Appendix D. 
Commission G 2. The convener, Dr. C.G. Jon. Petersen, Copenhagen, has 
also sent in a report (Appendix E) of the investigations belonging to the programme 
of this Committee. As these investigations have been in progress but one year, 
only a brief and preliminary report can be given. The preparation of the Danish 
portion of the treatise “Die Ostsee-Fischerei in ihrer jetzigen Lage” has also belonged 
to the programme of the investigations for the first year. | 
1) Publications de circonstance No. 13 A. Juin 1904. 
Copenhagen, August 1904. 
BUREAU OF THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL 
FOR THE STUDY OF THE SEA 
P. P. C. Horx 
General Secretary 
