vat ion-related issues were considered, including: approval 

 of SCAR's response to the previously mentioned requests from 

 the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Parties for advice on waste 

 disposal and possible means for improving the comparability 

 and accessibility of scientific data on Antarctica; estab- 

 lishment of an ad hoc Committee on the Coordination of Antarctic 

 Data; preparation of a statement elaborating SCAR principles 

 regarding protection of the Antarctic environment; establishment 

 of a Group of Specialists on Antarctic Environmental Affairs 

 and Conservation; plans to produce a SCAR manual on preparation 

 of management plans for protected areas; SCAR's approval of 

 proposals for (a) four new Sites of Special Scientific Interest 

 (Battleship Promontory, Victoria Land; Ablation Point, Alexander 

 Land; Avian Island, Marguerite Bay; and Mount Flora, Trinity 

 Peninsula), (b) a Specially Protected Area at Lion's Rump, 

 King George Island, and (c) reclassifying Specially Protected 

 Area No. 11, Cape Shirreff, as a Site of Special Scientific 

 Interest to facilitate monitoring studies in support of the 

 Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living 

 Resources; the preparation of a paper describing the role of 

 Antarctic science in global change programs (e.g. , the 

 International Geosphere-Biosphere Program) ; preparation of a 

 statement of concerns regarding the introduction of 

 non-indigenous biota into the Antarctic; the review of reports 

 on seal takes and information bearing on the Convention for 

 the Conservation of Antarctic Seals; establishment of an ad 

 hoc Committee on Ethics for Animal Research in the Antarctic 

 under the Working Group on Biology; and consideration of pro- 

 posals for a Conference on Antarctic Science to be held in 1991. 



A member of the Marine Mammal Commission staff served on 

 the ad hoc Group on Data Management of the Working Group on 

 Biology, the group that prepared SCAR's response to the request 

 of the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Parties for advice on 

 data management as described above and in previous Annual 

 Reports. SCAR approved the ad hoc Group's report and 

 recommended that it be transmitted through SCAR National 

 Committees to Governments with the caveat that the response 

 applies only within the context of Recommendation XIII-5 

 (Man's Impact on the Antarctic Environment) and does not 

 examine the question of scientific data and information exchange 

 in relation to global scientific programs. Consequently, 

 SCAR established an ad hoc Committee on the Coordination of 

 Antarctic Data to determine the requirements within SCAR for 

 a coordinated approach to data management. 



Elements of the Antarctic protected area system were 

 considered by SCAR's Working Group on Biology at the Hobart 

 meetings. The Working Group discussed the proposal for a new 

 multiple-use protected area which had been developed by SCAR 

 in response to a request from the Antarctic Treaty Consulta- 

 tive Parties and which subsequently had been referred by the 



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