on the Living Resources of the African Atlantic Continental 

 Shelf between the Straits of Gibraltar and Cape Verde and the 

 session of the ACMRR/ICES Working Party on the Fishery Resources 

 of the East Central and Southeast Atlantic (Tenerife, March 

 1968) . The need had been stressed for a synoptic study of the 

 oceanographic conditions on the Northwest African Shelf with 

 particular emphasis on upwelling, and plankton investigations; 

 in conjunction with these a program of fisheries investigations 

 (including a large-scale fishery echo-survey as elaborated by 

 the Working Party) should be carried out. 



It had been suggested that any such international cooperative 

 study might be organized jointly by IOC, ICES and the ECECA. 

 The ACMRR agreed at its 5th Session in principle, on the desir- 

 ability of the proposed studies , but had been unable to reach 

 a conclusion as to the priority to be given to, and organiza- 

 tional arrangements to be made for the proposed program, in 

 the context of the overall international marine research and 

 resources exploration program. Recommendation 9.17 was 

 adopted under this part of Agenda Item 8. 



Recommendation 9«17 



The Bureau instructed the Secretary to ensure that the 

 proposal for an International Cooperative Study of the 

 Northern Part of the Eastern Central Atlantic (Gibraltar 

 to Dakar) would be placed on the Agenda of the Sixth Session 

 of "che Commission for discussion in the light of further 

 details and background information which the interested 

 scientific groups (ACMRR, SCOR, ICES) would be invited to 

 supply. 



8.i. Legal Questions 



Dr. Fedorov Introduced this Agenda Item, calling attention to 

 document AVS/9/89M (8), the Summary Report of the first meeting 

 of the IOC Working Group on Legal Questions Related to Scien- 

 tific Investigations of the Ocean. He drew the particular 

 attention of delegates to annexes I, II and III to the report. 



Mr. A. Sciard (France) informed the meeting that the Working 

 Group's draft resolution contained inaccuracies in the French 

 translation, that the correct translation of this draft 

 resolution had been prepared, and he suggested, that one more 

 meeting of the IOC Working Group on Legal Questions be arranged 

 before the Sixth Session of the IOC in order to permit proper 

 consideration of the comments given by IOC Members on this 

 draft. 



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