The first meeting of the Scientific Cominittee was 

 somewhat less productive than the Commission meeting. 

 Although a chairman and two vice-chairmen were elected, the 

 Committee was unable to agree on rules of procedure. 

 However, draft rules of procedure, generally acceptable to 

 the United States and many other delegations, were produced, 

 and it seems likely that the remaining difficulties can be 

 resolved before or during the next Committee meeting. 



Although the Scientific Committee was unable to agree 

 on rules of procedures, participants did consider a number 

 of substantive matters during informal sessions chaired by 

 the chairman-elect. During these sessions, it was proposed, 

 among other things, that: (1) a thorough inventory of 

 current and past activities in fields of relevance to the 

 Convention should be conducted as a matter of priority; (2) 

 the Commission should take steps to introduce a logbook 

 system for obtaining information on all commercial fishing 

 in the Convention area; (3) the Commission and Scientific 

 Committee should establish cooperative working relationships 

 with the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research's (SCAR) 

 Group of Specialists on Southern Ocean Ecosystems and Their 

 Living Resources; (4) the SCAR Group of Specialists should 

 be asked by the Commission to update, under contract, its 

 1976 review of available data on the structure and status of 

 the Southern Ocean ecosystem; (5) the Group of Specialists' 

 Working Group on Modeling should be consulted to assist in 

 determining whether and what models might be used to define 

 and resolve management problems; (6) a Working Group on 

 Remote Sensing should be constituted to determine current 

 remote sensing capabilities and how they might be applied to 

 management of marine living resources in the Antarctic; and 

 (7) a Data Base Working Group should be established to 

 assist in describing and developing the appropriate data 

 base to facilitate the Committee's work. 



The next meetings of the Living Resources Commission 

 and Scientific Committee have not yet been scheduled, but 

 are expected to be held in the late spring or early autumn 

 of 1983. To help prepare for these meetings, the National 

 Marine Fisheries Service, in consultation with the Commission, 

 the Department of State, and the National Science Foundation, 

 is convening another meeting of the Ad Hoc U.S. Scientific 

 Working Group on the Antarctic. This meeting will be held 

 on 16-17 February 1983 and, as noted in Chapter II of this 

 Report, the Commission has provided funds to help organize 

 the meeting and provide a timely meeting report. 



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