Английская Википедия:International Fishery Congress
The International Fishery Congress was a series of conferences before World War I at which representatives of countries involved in the fishing industry exchanged views.
Precursors
At the International Fisheries Exhibition in London in May 1883 it was proposed to hold an International Fishery Conference.Шаблон:Sfn An International Fishery Congress was held in 1898 in Bergen, and another was held in Dieppe. At both of these there were unsuccessful attempts to launch the publication of an International Review of Fisheries and Fish Culture as a vehicle for communication between scientists in different countries.Шаблон:Sfn International Fisheries Congresses met in 1896, 1898, 1899, 1901 and in Copenhagen in 1902, where the International Council for the Study of the Sea was established.Шаблон:Sfn
Conferences
A new series of conferences began with a broader basis at the start of the twentieth century. The First International Conference on Agriculture and Fisheries was held in Paris in 1900. It recommended setting up an international commission to regulate fisheries, but nothing was done to implement this apart from the International Bureau of Whaling Statistics founded in Oslo in 1931.Шаблон:Sfn The second and third Conferences were held in Saint Petersburg (1903) and Vienna (1906).Шаблон:Sfn The ichthyologist Borodin Nikolai Andreevich was Secretary General of the Petersburg conference.Шаблон:Sfn
In 1909 the United States Bureau of Fisheries hosted the fourth conference, which mainly discussed fish hatching.Шаблон:Sfn The fourth congress was held in Washington, D.C., on 22–26 September 1908.Шаблон:Sfn About twenty countries sent representatives.Шаблон:Sfn S.G. Worth of North Carolina presented a paper praising the freshwater grass shrimp as "a natural source of abundance and cheapness".Шаблон:Sfn Dr. Paul Reighard presented a paper discussing the planting of whitefish fry in the Great Lakes as a means of increasing the catch.Шаблон:Sfn Decio Vinciguerra represented Italy at the Fourth Congress, where he reported on the decision to undertake an "international oceanographic exploration of the Mediterranean Sea in the interest of fisheries" and asked whether the Congress approved this decision.Шаблон:Sfn Mr Charles E. Fryer asked whether membership of the body would be restricted to litoral countries, and Vinciguerra confirmed that all countries with an interest in the Mediterranean should be represented.Шаблон:Sfn
The fifth International Fisheries Congress was held in Rome in May 1911, attended by delegates of the main countries of the world.Шаблон:Sfn The Seventh congress was to have been held in Santander, Spain, in 1921, but was cancelled.Шаблон:Sfn
See also
World Council of Fisheries Societies
Notes and references
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