Conference on Shared Living Resources of the Bering Sea 

 (The Center for Marine Conservation, Washington, D.C.) 



In the joint statement issued at the conclusion of the 

 1987 summit meeting between President Reagan and General 

 Secretary Gorbachev, the two leaders reaffirmed, among other 

 things, their support for cooperation in the Arctic and noted 

 plans and opportunities for increased scientific and 

 environmental cooperation under a number of bilateral 

 agreements. Subsequently, participants in the Legal and 

 Administrative Measures Area (Annex IX) of the U.S . -U. S . S .R. 

 Environmental Agreement (see Chapter V) agreed to co-sponsor 

 a Conference on the Shared Living Resources of the Bering 

 Sea. The Conference is being organized by the Council on 

 Environmental Quality (the U.S. agency responsible for 

 activities under Annex IX) and the Center for Environmental 

 Education (now the Center for Marine Conservation) . The 

 purpose of the Conference is to examine the domestic and 

 international laws and treaties applicable to U.S. and Soviet 

 activities bearing on the protection and management of living 

 resources, including marine mammals, in the Bering Sea. The 

 Conference and proceedings will help identify problems and 

 opportunities for enhancing protection of marine mammals and 

 other aspects of the Bering Sea ecosystem. 



Workshop To Describe the Biological Research Program and the 



Measures Needed to Protect Key Research Sites in the Vicinit y 



of Palmer Station. Antarctica 



(L. Quetin and R. Ross, University of California, Santa Barbara, 



California) 



In 1987, the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research 

 recommended that the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Parties 

 establish an additional category of Antarctic protected area 

 that would permit regulation of activities to avoid or minimize 

 possible multiple-use conflicts in designated areas. To 

 assist in evaluating this proposal, the Consultative Parties 

 called upon their Governments to prepare and submit for 

 consideration at the 1989 Consultative Meeting draft plans 

 for managing activities in a number of Antarctic areas where 

 multiple-use conflicts exist or may develop. The area around 

 the U.S. Palmer Station on Anvers Island was identified as 

 one of the areas where maintenance of scientific values and 

 environmental protection might be improved by development of 

 a multiple-use management plan. To assist the National Science 

 Foundation's U.S. Antarctic Program in providing the scientific 

 justification for an Antarctic Protected Area in the vicinity 

 of Palmer Station, the Commission provided support for a 

 workshop to identify: ongoing and planned biological research 

 in the vicinity of Palmer Station that might be impacted 

 adversely by increasing human activities in the area; geographic 



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