Council of British Shipping (GSBS), and an Institute of Offshore 

 Engineering (lOE) located at Heriot-Watt University whose purpose is 

 to coordinate approaches to offshore engineering problems. A number 

 of organizations promote the protection of seabirds and take strong 

 stands for the environmental protection of coastal waters. They are 

 the British Ornithologists Union (BOU), the British Trust for Orni- 

 thologists (BTO), the Royal Society for Protection of Birds (RSPB), 

 the Scottish Ornithologists Club (SOC), and Wildfowl Trust (WFT). 



Acronyms associated with marine programs are RANOSP — Radiological 

 North Sea Project; and TWERLE — Tropical Wind Energy Conversions and 

 Reference Level Experiments. 



Members of the British Commonwealth having marine interests include 

 the Bermuda Biological Station (BBS) and the Hong Kong Fisheries 

 Research Station (FRS). BBS's programs include the Bermuda Inshore 

 Waters Investigation (BIWI). 



663. URUGUAY 



Marine research is largely conducted by the Servicio de Oceano- 

 grafla e Hidrografia (SOH) de la Armada. 



664. VENEZUELA 



The Direccion de Hidrografia y Navegacion (DHN) is responsible 

 for hydrographic and physical oceanographic surveys, and the Oficina 

 Nacional de Pesca (ONP) conducts fishery and marine biological re- 

 search. 



The Instituto Oceanograf ico of the Universidad de Oriente (lOUO) 

 and the Estacion de Investigaciones Marinas de Margarita (EIMM) of 

 the Fundacion La Salle de Ciencias Naturales (FLSCN) have extensive 

 oceanographic programs - biological, chemical, geological, meteoro- 

 logical, and physical. 



665. YUGOSLAVIA 



The Hidrograf ski Institut Jugoslavenske Ratne Mornarice (IHIJRM) 

 or Hydrographic Institute of the Yugoslav Navy is responsible for much 

 of the government's marine science research. Other marine research 

 groups include the Institut za Oceanograf iju i Ribarstivo (lOR) or 

 Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries at Split, the Institut za 

 Biologiju Mora i Oceanograf iju (IBMO) at Kotor, the Biologiju Insti- 

 tut (BI) at Dubrovnik, the Zavodza Biologiju Mora (ZBM) of the Univer- 

 sity of Ljubljana, and the "Ruder Boskovic" Institut (RBI) at Rovinj 

 and Zagreb. The Hidrometeorologskog Zavodas (HZ) or Hydrometeorologi- 

 cal stations at Ljubljana and Titograd are responsible for marine 

 meteorology. 



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