Intel"Nationl'\L Couneil for the Exploration of the Sea. C.M. 1955 ADMINISTRATIVE REFORT for the YEAR 111M

$Intel"Nationl'\L Couneil for the Exploration of the Sea. C.M. 1955 ADMINISTRATIVE REFORT for the YEAR 111M$

Intel"nationl'\l Couneil for the Exploration of the Sea. C.M. 1955 1.

ADMINISTRATIVE REFORT FOR. THE YEAR 111M - 1955 • r, General

Composition cf the Internationl'\l Council

Delegates. * - Finland have appointed Proi'essor E. Halme» Direoteur de I! InstituT: Soientifique des Peches Maritimes, Hersrngfors I'\S Senior Delegate instead ci' Professor, Ur, Gunnar Granqvist. with Ur. I. Hela, Institut pour l'Exploration de la Mer, Helsingi'ors, as seoond" Delegate. '" United Kingdom. MI'. A. J. Aglsn will again this year act as Delegate 1'01" So ot land , ~>"'''*'

Composition oi' the Bureau, No ohange.

Co~itte8s an:!. !ditors, No ohange,

Meetings

Ameeting of the Bureau took plaoe Copenhagen on 23, May, ard l~a attended by all Members and the Chairman 01' the Consultative Committee. A Sub-Cammittee meeting to "direot the preparation 01' final mean oharts 01' slU'face temperature an:!. salinitiea to be prepared by the Servioe Hydrographique was held at the Central Offioe i'rom 2.-5. September and was attended by

MI' 0 J 0 R. Luniby. England • Chairman Ur. G. Dietrich. Germany. and

~rofessor p. Groen, Holland.

,A Sub-Committe8 meeting "1'01" the revision 01' the pres,mt standard method of salinity determination" will be held at Copenhagen .from 21. to 23. üotobar, and will be attended by Mr. F. Herman:n, Denmark, Chairman

Dr Q K.. Kalle, Germany Dr. F. Koozy, Sweden MI'. P. Tchernia, France and W. U. Maniece, England.

Preliminary Ao~~unt for the ourrent Finanoial

Year 1 0 November 1954 - 31. Ootober 1955. --'-"""'-~~-

The Delegates will. to"et);"",. Wl +10 +1,4 M. nc·. 2

Ir. ~x:.~:;:~~C:f"ti~~"b G<;E.0n~'l -staff. No change, Publ:toatiOl1.S.• Rapports at Proo~s-V8rbaux, Vol. 137 (Rapport Atlantique) issued in Juno,

tI I! I! tI , Vol. 138 (ProGes~Vorbaux 1954" Rapport Administrative 1953) issued in May. " " " " !} Volt. 139 (Report on Echo Sounding and ASdic) issued in September. " " " " , Val. 140 (Speoial Soientlfic Meetings 1954, In three parts, I, Problems and methods cf sampling FiBh Populations; H. Herring Tagging Techniques and Resul"bs; III. Oyster and Museel Gu1ture,) in Anna1es Biologiques, Val. X (1953) issued in January 1955. preparation. " " " • Val. XI(1954) :u ;):t'eparation, proof prints ready far '"' the Gounoil Meeting, Journal du Conseil, Vol. XX, No. 2, issued in Deoember 1954. " " • Vol. XX, No. 3, issued in May 1955. " If " " , Vol.XXI, No, 1, issued in October 1955.

Bulletin, Statistique, Val, XXXVIII (1953) issued in September 1955. " II » Vol. XXXIX (1954) in preparation. Bulletin Hydrographique for 1950, issued in Deoember 1954,

If " " 1951 to be issued at the end 01' Ootober 1955. Hydrographio Synoptio Charts! Gharts for May-Deoembor 1954 and for January

May have been issued 0 The ohart i'or June 1955, in preparation. Provisional Mean Charts oi' Temperature! all 24 charts agreed upon have appeared.

Zooplankton Identifieation Sheeta, In September 1955 manusoripts for sheets nos. 54 - 56 were reoeived from the Editor, Dr. Thorson, and a first prao1' will be ready at the Gouneil Meeting, Manuscripts to shoets 57 ~ 59 have been promisod to be ready in December and it is 'ehus hoped that sheets nos, 50 - 59 can be issued at the beginning oi' 1956,

Statistieal Department.

Bulletin Statistique for 1953 (Vol, XXXVIII) was issued and distributed in September.

In June the "normal" 1'orms and €I speoial one for ini'ormation oonoerning; "oatoh per unit 01' ef1'ort" were sent to the member ·countries and most (lf the material 1'01' 1954 i8 now to hand and the manusoript i8 being; prepared for printing;. In September all the material reoeived regarding "oatoh per unit of e1'i'ort" were duplioated and sont to R, Go Ro Wall, Pre8c'.d ent oi' the Permanent COmmission, for distributLJn to the members oi' the Permanent Commission. w 3

ffydrQgraphica1.Jl5:';22:~~,:"~j;~D

Bulletin Hydr!:iS.!.':l2]:tj;c;u~, The 1951 velume was prepared and published, It has not been possible to go fu,·'c:her as many data froll 1952 have been reoe:!.ved on1y reoently, and a few are stilllacking. Hydrograph~cal Car;l..J.~~~"]:> AU data reoeived fer incerporati'ln in the Bulletin Hydrographique have been recorded on index: oards together with Some data from other souroes D Copies of (,ard irAex: data have been supplied on request. An estimate (partly ha8cc'. on cmmting) -r,f thc number of surfaoe observaticns in the oard index: has been lUJ.dertakBn at the request of the Sub-COlJ1.mittee on Mean ChaX"cs, W:l.nd--i,\s;!;a, re

Publioathns 0

Bulletin Hydrographique pour l'ann~e 1951. Synoptio Hydrographie Charts, July 1954 May 1955. Monthly Anoma1y of the Sl.lrfaee Temperature in Areas cf the Northern North Atlanbic in 1953 - Annales Biologiques. Vol, X, pp. 15-16. Monthly Anomaly of the SUl:'faGe Temperature in an Area off the Eastern Coast cf' S00t1and in 1953. - Annales Biologiques, Vol. X, p. 75. On the Romogeneity cf the Water Co1umn in the Southern North Soa. _ Annalos BiologJ,ques, Vol. X, pp. 75 - .sO.