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operation for a number of years: the Indo-Pacific Fisheries Council and 

 the General Fisheries Council for the Mediterranean. 



Following the resolution of the Second Regional Meeting of FAO 

 it was proposed to the Fifth Session of the Conference of the same 

 organization by its Director-General, that a Fisheries Council should 

 be also established in Latin America to help coordinate the efforts of 

 the countries of the region to further study and develop their fisheries. 



Accordingly an organizational meeting took place in Lima, Peru, 

 in September, 1951, during which 15 countries reached an agreement to 

 establish a council. This agreement has been approved by the Sixth 

 Session of the FAO Conference and submitted to the interested govern- 

 ments for ratification. As soon as five Member Countries of FAO in 

 the area accept the agreement, the Council will come into existence. 

 The FAO Regional Fisheries Office for Latin America will act as the 

 secretariat. 



2. Latin American Fisheries Training Centre. 



The lack of trained personnel in fishery administration and fish- 

 ery research in general is a great obstacle in the development and 

 study of the fishery resources of the world. This situation is particu- 

 larly acute in Latin America. To help solve this problem, FAO in 

 accordance with the recommendations of the Montevideo Meeting, ope- 

 rated in Valparaiso, Chile, a training centre for fisheries workers of 

 the region which lasted from 6 January to 14 March, 1952. 



About 50 delegates and observers from 7 countries attended the 

 classes given, which covered the fields of fishery administration, biol- 

 ogy, technology, and economics. 



The following courses were given by the listed instructors: Dr. 

 Jorge Ahumada (ECLA-UN), Appraisal of Fisheries Projects; Jorge 

 Alarcao, (FAO), Fisheries Statistics; Richard S. Croker (U.S.A.), Fisheries 

 Administration; Dr. Fernando de Buen (Uruguay), Economically Im- 

 portant Families of Fishes; Dr. Carlos Gonzales (Argentina), Sanitation 

 of Fishery Products; Mogens Jul (FAO), Handling and Refrigeration 

 of Fisheries Products; Antonio Landa (Peru), Analytical Biological 

 Fisheries Statistics; Milton J. Lobell (Chile), Fishing Methods, Craft 

 and Gear; Dr. Antonio Lopez-Matas (Chile), Canning and Curing of 

 Fish, Fish by-products; Dr. B. F. Osorio-Tafall (FAO), Latin Ameri- 

 can Fisheries, the Living Aquatic Resources and Their Importance for 

 Man; John C. Marr (U.S.A.), Marine Fisheries Management; Valentin 

 Paz Andrado (Spain), Fisheries Economics; Felipe Quezada (UN), Eco- 

 nomic Geography of Latin America; Dr. Gerardo H. Schwabe (Chile), 

 Molluscs and Crustaceans of Commercial Importance; Dr. Erwin 



