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INTERNATIONAL CO-ORDINATION AND CO-OPERATION 



(i) Produce a bibliography on Antarctic krill. 



(ii) Produce updated accounts of the knowledge of the resource, its exploitation 



and utilization, 

 (iii) Act as an information centre on research plans, resource knowledge, fishing 



techniques, equipment and utilization questions, 

 (iv) Review (when appropriate) the need for international action such as ad hoc 



expert group meetings and joint research projects, and pursue the possibility 



of mobilizing international financing for resources survey work and other 



activities of a high priority. 



Preliminary drafts of the bibUography and of the resource reviews, and an account of the 

 exploitation and utilization of krill were presented to the Woods Hole meeting. 



(c) FAO is the executing agency for a proposed Southern Ocean Fisheries Programme 

 to be funded by the United Nations Development Programme. The preliminary phase of this 

 programme started in July 1975 and is helping to support, among other activities, the resources 

 reviews referred to in Section 2. The programme's main phase will include the compilation and 

 dissemination of resource information. In addition, surveys of potentially exploitable resources, 

 especially those which complement activities of other institutions, will be made to the extent of 

 available support from UNDP and other funding agencies. 



(d) FAO compiles and publishes statistical information on commercial fish catches 

 and species categories by broad areas and on a worldwide basis. These data can provide essential 

 basic information for resource studies, particularly if the regional and species classifications of 

 Antarctic and sub-Antarctic catches were improved. 



5. The International Whaling Commission (IWC). 



The IWC has launched an International Decade of Cetacean Research, in response to 

 proposals from UNEP and others. It has asked UNEP, FAO and perhaps other bodies for funds. 

 It has been suggested that the World Bank might also be interested. IWC has also just embarked 

 on a 'new management policy' for whaling by its member states, which requires considerably 

 expanded research for effective application. The policy should reduce uncertainties in whale 

 stock assessment and resolve problems arising from interactions between species. 



6. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). 



UNEP has a wide interest in environmental affairs, including the conservation of natural 

 resources. It has helped support the ACMRR (FAO) study of marine mammals mentioned 

 above. 



7. International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (lUCN). 

 Quasi inter-governmental, lUCN has several levels of interest in Southern Ocean research: 



they range from expressions by its General Assembly of a more or less political nature, as to the 

 desirable status and uses, or non-uses, of tlie Antarctic and the surrounding seas, to the various 

 specialized groups— on whales, seals and now on marine mammals as a whole-under its Survival 

 Service Commission. lUCN will be concentrating in 1977-79 on marine activities. 



