In the same year he was among the founders of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea.
The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, the European Commission’s main scientific advisor on fisheries and environmental issues in the northeast Atlantic, recommend mapping and then closing all of Europe’s deep corals to fishing trawlers.
In 1901 he attended the Second International Conference of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea in Christiania (present-day Oslo) and was voted one of the vice-presidents of the Council.
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Fisheries management agencies such as the membership of ICES and the United States National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) commonly use scientific sonar for stock assessment purposes, such as herring biomass assessment for resource management purposes.