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8. COMPILATION OF RECOMMENDATIONS ON 

 THE ORGANIZATION OF BIOMASS 



The Group recommends: 



1. That SCAR and SCOR approve tJie following amended terms of reference for 

 the Group of Specialists on Living Resources of the Southern Ocean (SCOR WG 54). 



(a) To encourage and stimulate investigations of the trophodynamics of the Antarctic 

 marine ecosystem and the ecology and population dynamics of organisms at 

 different trophic levels. 



(b) To keep under review the current state of knowledge concerning the Antarctic 

 marine ecosystem from the viewpoint of structure, biomass and dynamic 

 processes of organisms at different trophic levels. 



(c) To transmit through SCAR and SCOR to those countries engaged in the 

 exploitation of the living resources of the Southern Ocean scientific information 

 relevant to the management of such resources. 



(d) To advise SCAR and SCOR and through them other international organizations, 

 and in particular to respond to relevant recommendations of IOC and the 

 Antarctic Treaty consultative meetings. 



(e) To act as the international scientific planning group for BIOMASS. 



(f} To recommend standardized measurements, techniques and data recording of 

 biological observations in the Southern Ocean. 



2. That IOC undertake the international co-ordination of BIOMASS. 



3. That IOC request countries carrying out research in the Southern Ocean to provide 

 details of proposed cruise tracks and scheduled researches, which would be made 

 available to the Group of Specialists. 



4. That SCAR request the National Agencies operating supply sliips to institute a 

 circum-Antarctic programme of underway observations of surface temperature, 

 salinity, chlorophyll and underway collection of records of expendable bathermograph 

 (XBT) and biological echo traces. 



5. That SCAR collaborate with FAO in drawing the attention of all parties engaged in the 

 exploration and exploitation of living resources of the Southern Ocean to the need for 

 detailed catch and effort statistics as set out in Annex A to be submitted to FAO. 



6. That SCAR inform FAO of its approval of the proposed northward movement of the 

 boundary Hues between statistical areas in the Atlantic and Indian oceans, and that in 

 the interim period before the new regions are formally approved by all interested 

 parties, countries should be requested to distinguish separately, when reporting to 

 FAO, the catches taken (a) in the south Atlantic in the area bounded by 50° to 60°S in 

 20° to 50°W and 55° to 60°S in 50° to 60°W, and (b) in the Indian Ocean between 

 45° and 50°S in 30° to 80°F. 



