BUREAU OF THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL 

 FOR THE STUDY OF THE SEA 



Report of Administration 



1914—15 • 1915—16. 



According to a communication from the Danish Foreign Office to the Bureau, Composition of 

 dated February 1915, the following change has occurred in the composition of ' ° 'co°u™cn""'^' 

 the Bureau and the Council. 



The German Government has stated that Germany will during this 

 war^. abstain from further co-operation in the work of the International In- 

 vestigations, because the carrying out of an essential part of the problems 

 has been suspended by the present state of affairs. Consequently the German 

 delegates will not take part in the voting and resolutions of the organisation as 

 long as war continues. The German Government, however, hopes to be able to 

 resume participation when quieter times have set in. 



In view of this resolution. Geheimer Legationsrat Rose informed the Bureau 

 that he had to resign as President of the International Council. At the same 

 time he wrote in February 1915 to the General Secretary (in translation): "Since 

 I can no longer consider myself as President of the Council, I feel the need of 

 expressing my heart-felt thanks to all the members of that body, and in parti- 

 cular to those of the Bureau, for the goodwill with which they have at all times 

 supported me in the execution of my official duties. I feel, moreover, that I 

 owe especial thanks to the staff at Copenhagen for the zeal and interest with 

 which they have carried out such duties as have devolved upon them during 

 my period of office. I should esteem it a favour if you would intimate to the 

 members of the Council and of the staff that I shall always remember with 

 gratitude and pleasure the work we have done together". And further: "My 

 Government has, in a note on the subject, expressed the hope that it may, when 

 matters have settled down, again be able to participate. This entirely corre- 

 sponds to my own personal sentiments. I am firmly convinced that the inter- 

 national work undertaken by the various countries in common on behalf of 

 their fisheries is indispensable. If we wish to maintain our fisheries at a high 

 level, and to develope the same to a flourishing industry, then international 

 co-operation affords the only way by which this object may be attained. You 



