North-Western Working Group report of meeting in Copenhagen, 1961

At the Eighth meeting of the Permanent Commission, London, in May 1960, the Liaison Committee of I.C.E.S. was invited to "promote an investigation into the state of the fish stocks in the northern part of the Convention Area outside the north-east Arctic, and the effects on them of further increases of mesh size above 110 mm". In response to this request the Liaison Committee, at a meeting in London on 5. May 1960, set up the North-Western Working Group, constituted as above, and asked it as first priority to report on the fisheries of Iceland and East Greenland, to which the request of the Permanent Commission referred explicitly. It further asked the Group to examine the effect of increase in mesh size on the fisheries of the Faroes area.