PROGRAMME ON GROWTH
54. A discussion was led by Klein Breteler on progress made by the group since its last meeting in Olsztyn. An agreed questionnaire had been circulated, to which 18 replies had been received, contributing details of over 100 case studies from 10 countries. The lack of southern European data was noted with regret.
55. It was agreed that the questionnaire survey be continued, with a second call for data, and an appropriate clarification of the status of the dataset as a publication would be considered. Categories for marine and brackish-water eels should be included in the questionnaire, together with space for a measure of abundance or cpue. The convener of the group, Guy Fontenelle, would be requested to decide on the extent of circulation of the database desirable during the inter-sessional. The meeting thanked Klein Breteler for his work in collecting the data in the absence of Fontenelle.
BANK OF PRESERVED GLASS EELS
56. Donnelly, convener of the group, had provided a poster describing its achievements. He conducted a discussion on the work. Nine Atlantic European countries and Morocco had responded promptly to the request of material (Annex F). This is now held at Trinity College, University of Dublin to be made available for research workers. The exercise would be repeated in 1994–95. Reynolds agreed to circulate statistics on the holdings to donors. It was noted that members from Asian countries and New Zealand would be willing to contribute material to the bank and some of them would be interested in using the European specimens. Tesch suggested that leptocephalus material might be available from the Helgoland Marine Institute.
57. It was agreed that: (i) all requests for material from the Bank should be directed through the Chairman of the Working Group; and (ii) arrangements be made to deposit a small sub-sample of all material in a national museum.
