Report of the ICES/ICNAF Joint Working Party on North Atlantic Salmon

1. The first report1) indicated the reasons for the appointment of this Working Party and gave an account of the first two meetings, which were held in Madrid and Copenhagen in May and October 1966. This report reviews the information received and describes the investigations made since 1966 and gives a record of the two subsequent mee:ting:s of the Working Party, held in Hamburg in October 1967 and in London in May 1968.

2. Some changes have taken place in the composition of the Party since 1966. Mr. dulland1s retirement from the Chairmanship of the Party and Mr. Allen's election as. his successor were recorded in the first report. Unfortunately, Mr. Allen was not able to take the Chair at a meeting

of the Working Party because his appointment as Director of the Biological Station at Nanaimo in May 1967 compelled him to resign his Chairmanship during the interval between the second and third meetings. Mr. Allen was succeeded as Chairman by Mr. B. B. Parrish.