COMMITTEE B — DECEMBER 1903 
or 
Committee B 
Meeting of 17—18 December 1903 
Agenda submitted by the Convener 
Report of the Convener on the general course of the trawling investigations 
in the North Sea during 1902—3. 
Report of the Convener on Comparative Trawling Experiments made by the 
research steamers “Thor”, “Poseidon”, “Wodan”, and “Goldseeker” with the 
“Huxley”. 
Proposals for a definite scheme of Periodic Trawling Experiments on fixed 
erounds during 1904. 
Proposals for the employment of a standard trawl by each vessel, and for a 
uniform mesh of net. ; 
Proposals for a definite scheme of experiments on the marking of plaice 
(Pleuronectes platessa) during 1904. 
a. Experiments with plaice to be liberated on the grounds where they have 
been caught. 
b. Experiments in the transplantation of plaice from one ground to another. 
Proposals to ensure uniformity in the methods of tabulating and publishing 
the results of the fishery experiments of each country, with reference to 
a. the trawlings records, — especially as regards the size, number and weight 
of the fishes caught, and the species to be distinguished; and 
b. the experiments upon marked fishes, 
On the methods to be adopted for studying fluctuations in the abundance of 
certain species (especially plaice and haddock) in successive years, and for 
tracing these fluctuations to their natural causes. 
Proposals for a quantitative investigation of the distribution of the eggs of 
the common sole (Solea vulgaris) during 1904. 
