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XI. CONSULTATION AND COOPERATION WITH OTHERS 



Preparation of the proposal of a regime for conserva- 

 tion of Antarctic marine living resources and the Department 

 of State's environmental impact statement on the regime has 

 involved extensive and valuable consultation and cooperation 

 within the United States Government, with the U.S. Congress 

 and public and with other nations. 



Immediately after the Government of Norway proposed 

 that the Antarctic Treaty parties consider the conservation 

 of Antarctic living marine resources at the Eighth Antarctic 

 Treaty Party Consultative meeting in June, 1975 at Oslo, 

 the United States delegation offered to host an international 

 scientific conference on the living resources of the Southern 

 Ocean. The purpose of the conference was to provide nations 

 with the opportunity to review the existing knowledge of the 

 living resources of the Southern Oceansand to develop a 

 proposal for future cooperative studies in the area. The 

 conference was later held in August, 1976 in Woods Hole, 

 Mass. It brought together 59 scientists from 14 countries, 

 including the U.S., working within the Scientific Committee 

 for Antarctic Research (SCAR), and laid the basis for a 

 needed understanding of the structure and dynamic function 

 of the Antarctic marine ecosystems as a basis for the future 

 management of potential living resources there. It provided 

 additional scientific information on the international level 

 for the later decision of the Antarctic Treaty parties in 

 their Ninth Consultative meeting at London in December 1977 

 to elaborate a regime to conserve living resources in waters 

 surrounding the Antarctic continent. The report of the 

 conference is contained in Appendix H of the Final EIS. 



During the development of the regime proposal, the 

 appropriate committees and members of the U.S. Congress 

 have been closely consulted. On September 12, 1977 Acting 

 Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International 

 Environmental and Scientific Affairs Robert C. Brewster 

 briefed the House of Representatives Subcommittee on 

 Fisheries, Wildlife Conservation and the Environment of the 

 Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee and the Environment 

 and Atmosphere Subcommittee of the House Science and 

 Technology Committee on the proposed regime during testimony 

 on H.R. 7749. Acting Assistant Secretary Brewster updated 

 this information before the Subcommittee on Fisheries, 

 Wildlife Conservation and the Environment on October 13, 

 1977. In testimony on February 6, 1978 Assistant Secretary 

 Patsy T. Mink and Ambassador Brewster, along with other 



