International Council for Fishery Investigations

Abstract

As the writer of the article on the above subject in NATURE of March 18, I should be disposed to allow Prof. McIntosh's letter in the issue of April 8 based on it to pass without comment if that letter had not been quoted extensively elsewhere. I merely remark that the professor's claim to maintain the same position as he took up in his published criticisms in 1902 and 1903 is fully substantiated. I see no reference in my article to the Moray Firth, which, indeed, had nothing to do with the International Council, and which I must leave Prof. McIntosh to settle with his fishery colleagues in Scotland. His criticism of the representatives of France is out of place, in that representatives of all countries are appointed by their Governments.