ADMINISTRATION-REPORT 1902-03 _ XXX — 



Prof. D'Argy Wentworth Thompson, Dundee. 

 Dr. F. Trtbom, Stockholm. 



Committee B The Committee B, which is concerned with the cpestion of overfishing of 



the parts of the North Sea mostly fished over by trawlers, consists of the following 

 members : 



Mr. Walter Garstang, Convener, Lowestoft. 

 Dr. T. Wemyss Fulton, Aberdeen. 

 Dr. H. Henking, tit. Professor, Hannover. 

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

 I Dr. H. C. PiEDEKE, Helder. 



Dr. F. Trybom, Stockholm. 



Committee c A third Committee was likewise formed in July 1902 for the purpose of 



investigating the problems connected with the fisheries of the Baltic. Dr. 0. Nord- 

 quist, Helsingfors, who was chosen convener at the Copenhagen meeting of July 

 1902, resigned the post later. At the Council meeting of February 1903 two con- 

 veners, each for a portion of the area under observation, were chosen in his place: 

 Dr. F. Trybom for the north-eastern portion of the Baltic and especially for the 

 investigation of the salmon, "stromling", sprat, eel etc., and Dr. C. G. Joh. Petersen 

 for the south-western portion and especially for the investigation of the plaice and 

 cod. The members of Committee C are as follows: 



Dr. F. Trybom, Convener of Committee C 1, Stockholm. 

 Dr. C. G. JoH. Petersen, Convener of Committee C 2, Copenhagen. 

 Prof. Karl Brandt, Kiel. 



Dr. 0. VON Grimm, tit. Professor, St. Petersburg. 

 Dr. H. Henking, tit. Professor, Hannover. 

 Mr. J. A. Sandman, Helsingfors. 

 In consequence of the retirai of the original convener of this third, called the 

 Baltic Committee, its work only began during the summer (see Report of the 

 Meeting of this Committee at Stralsund, July 1903), so that no report is as yet 

 The work of possible. The Committees A and B on the other hand, have already — though 

 A\nd°ß'"du'rir ^^ '^ "°^ quite a complete year — accomphshed some work. Two meetings have 

 the first year been held (at Edinburgh in September, Copenhagen in February: — see Reports 

 of Meetings) and plans for the common observations and investigations have been 

 debated and determined. At the present time their work is in full swing; it is 

 only with difficulty however, that this work can be brought to a close at any 

 definite period of the year so that reports upon the results aimed at may be 

 made. On the other hand, as there is a danger that the researches of individual 



