(1) Meddelelser fra Kommissionen for Havundersogelser (2) Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Fishery Investigations (3) Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Fishery Investigations

Abstract

THE herring is our most, important food fish. Workers in different countries are approaching the problems connected with it from different points of view. The accumulation of data tends towards both simplification and complication. It is possible that increased hydrographic knowledge may assist us to foretell, to some extent, the nature of the fishery and that applied science may score a success, but the understanding of the subject is in the realms of pure science. The three papers specified above all help, in varying extent, to increase our knowledge.

(1) Meddelelser fra Kommissionen for Havundersogelser.

Serie: Fiskeri. Bind VII.: On the Summer- and Autumn-Spawning Herrings of the North Sea. By Dr. A. C. Johansen. Pp. 118. (Kobenhavn: C. A. Reitzel Boghandel, 1924.)

(2) Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. Fishery Investigations.

Series 2, vol. 7, No. 4, 1924. First Report on Young Herring in the Southern North Sea and English Channel. Part I.: Distribution and Growth of Larval and Post-larval Stages, by Dr. William Wallace.; with Appendix: The Water Movements of the North Sea in relation to the Geographical Distribution of Post-larval Herring, by J. N. Carruthers. Pp. 84. (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1924.) 13s. net.

(3) Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. Fishery Investigations.

Series 2, vol. 7, No. 3, 1924: The Herring in Relation to its Animate Environment. Part I.: The Food and Feeding Habits of the Herring with Special Reference to the East Coast of England. By A. C. Hardy. Pp. 53. (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1924.) 8s. 6d. net.