which ACMRR also serves as advisory body to UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic 

 Commission (IOC). 



ACMRR has played a major role in the reorganization of fisheries affairs in FAO and in the 

 development of international ocean activities undertaken through IOC. 



2. The Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization' "* 



Althougli UNESCO's Office of Oceanography and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission 

 (IOC) are not organizations specifically devoted to fisheries, they carry on important activities with 

 relation thereto and, therefore, will be described briefly. 



a. UNESCO's Office of Oceanography This Office forms part of UNESCO's Department of 

 Advancement of Science. The Director of the Office is also, ex officio. Secretary of IOC. The Office "is 

 concerned with stimulating and co-ordinating basic oceanic research and associated scientific work 

 throughout the world and with providing technical assistance in oceanography to the developing 

 countries." Its activities in oceanography include: 



(1) Provision of secretarial services to IOC and support to the international scientific expeditions 

 co-ordinated by IOC. It is expected that S225,000 will be allocated for these services and IOC support in 

 1969/70. The IOC secretariat annually coordinates National activities to the value of $15-20 million. 



(2) Exchange of information and promotion of development of modern oceanographic methodology 

 and instrumentation. $80,000 was budgeted for this program in 1967/68. 



(3) Assistance to National and regional institutions and laboratories. About $500,000 a year is spent 

 on this program which provides assistance in the form of expert advice, equipment, organization of 

 meetings and various grants from both its regular program and funds for technical assistance 

 administered by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). Expenditure on existing UNDP 

 fishery projects exceeds the total of all other international funds spent on marine problems, other than 

 those spent on defense and on the actual exploitation of marine resources. 



(4) Training and education in marine science. Total expenditures projected for fellowships in marine 

 science for 1969/70 are $85,000. It should also be noted that funds for training and education are also 

 expended by UNDP, FAO, World Meteorological Organization (WMO), and Economic Commission for 

 Asia and the Far East (ECAFE). 



b. Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) IOC's particular function, as set forth in its 

 governing statute approved by the Xlth General Conference of UNESCO (1959) is "to promote 

 scientific investigation with a view to learning more about the nature and resources of the oceans, 

 through the concerted action of its members." 



At present, IOC has 59 members; its membership is open to all States Members of the United Nations 

 willing to participate in oceanographic programs that require concerted action by them. 



IOC is responsible for organizing through World Data Centers the international exchange of 

 oceanographic data; as well as organizing cooperative scientific expeditions. It sponsored the 

 International Indian Ocean Expedition (1959-1965); the International Co-operative Investigations of the 

 Tropical Atlantic (1963-1964); the Co-operative Study of the Kuroshio and Adjacent Regions of the 

 Pacific; Co-operative Investigations in the Mediterranean; Co-operative Investigations of the Caribbean 

 and Adjacent Regions; Cooperative Systemic Studies in the North Atlantic; and Comprehensive Studies 

 of the Southern Ocean. Member States pay for their own participation in these cooperative programs. 



Two scientific advisory bodies assist IOC in its work— (1) the Scientific Committee on Oceanic 

 Research (SCOR) of the International Conference of Scientific Unions (ICSU), which is a non- 



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