Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management

The Institute of Fresh-Water Research, Drottningholm, (formerly: The Swedish State Institute of Fresh-Water Fishery Research) was founded in 1932. The Institute was directly under the Fishery Bureau of the Board of Agriculture with the chief of that Bureau as its director. On July 1st 1948, the Swedish Fishery Board was established, and the Institute’s formerdirector — fil. dr. Gunnar Alm — consequently appointed to the administration of freshwater fisheries within the Board. The Institute now represents fresh-water fishery research within the Board under the supervision of its own director. During the past years the results of the research have been published as reports appearing at various intervals. A list of all the reports published hitherto is found on the cover of this booklet. Considering the vast amount of research being carried on at present at similar institutes in other countries, it should, however, be of interest to publish an Annual Report, a survey of the year’s work at our Institute and short reports from the staff. More comprehensive work will, however, even in the future appear as separate papers.