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THE first meeting since the autumn of 1913 of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea took place in the Surveyors' Institution, Westminster, on March 2–6. The Council exists to consider and conduct investigations into the fisheries of the North Atlantic; to examine how far these fisheries are being depleted by fishing; to investigate natural methods, such as by breeding, etc., of keeping up the stock; and in cases of certain future failure of supply to suggest the necessary remedial measures. The Council has been conducting researches for nearly twenty years, but its operations during the war were brought almost to a standstill. For the most part it deals with the sea-fish common to all countries, but a special sub-committee considers the salmon, and a second the eel; shellfish are not investigated. The countries represented were France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Great Britain, each country having two delegates, with scientific experts from the fishery authorities of each. France was represented for the first time, but Germany and Russia dropped out of representation; the meeting was too hurriedly convened to allow of the U.S. Congress appointing delegates, and there was no representative of Canada, the eastern fisheries of which are mainly coastal. Great Britain was represented by Mr. H. G. Maurice and Prof. D'Arcy Thompson as delegates, Mr. Holt representing Ireland, while most of the scientific staffs of the three countries took part in the deliberations of the committees, including Prof. Stanley Gardiner (temporary Director of Fishery Research) and Comdr. Jones (of the Scottish Office).
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International Fishery Investigations. Nature 105, 84–86 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105084b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/105084b0