ADMINISTRATION-REPORT 1902-03 _ XXVIII — 



cal value, especially if tangible and practical results were to be obtained at no 

 distant future. 



Special problems The proposals put forward at the first meeting of the Council were directed to 



this end and received general approval. It was therefore agreed that the two following 

 problems should be made the special object of the investigations of all the states inter- 

 ested in the fisheries of the North Sea, the Skager Rak, Kattegat and neighbouring seas : 



a) the migrations of the principal food-fishes of the North Sea, especially of the 

 herring and cod; 



b) the question of the overfishing of those portions of the North Sea, the 

 Skager Rak and Kattegat mostly fished over by trawlers, and especially with 

 regard to the plaice, sole and other flat-fish as well as the haddock. 



Formation of A special Committee was formed for each of these problems and commissioned 



Committees ''^ draw up detailed directions for the methods of the investigations, and to con- 

 sider how the cooperation could best be utilized for the solution of the problems 

 in question. For each special committee there should be a convener whose 

 business was to give such advice, information and directions as may be possible, to 

 Duties of the the members of his committee, and to coordinate their work in conformity with 

 the special purposes of his committee, to arrange the information and reports sent 

 to him by the members, and to draw up summaries of the results obtained and 

 forward these to the Bureau. 



Election of During the first meeting of the (Jouncil (July 1902, Copenhagen) the mem- 



Commlttees 



bers and conveners of Committees A and B were chosen; at the second meeting 

 of the Council the composition of these Committees was but little altered. 



Committee A The Committee A whose convener is Dr. Johan Hjort, Bergen, is concerned 



with the study of the migrations of the principal food-fishes of the North Sea, and 

 is composed of the following members : 



Dr. JoHAN Hjort, Bergen. 



Mr. Walter Garstang, Lowestoft. 



Dr. Fr. Heingke, tit. Professor, Heligoland. 



Dr. N. Knipowitsch, St. Petersburg. 



Dr. C. G. JoH. Petersen, Copenhagen. 



Dr. H. G. Redeke, Helder. 



