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IPFC Standing Committee on Resources Research and Development (SCORRAD)

(1)

(11)

Establishment

Seventeenth Session of IPFC, 1-5 November 1976, Colombo, Sri Lanka, (Proc. Seventeenth Session IPFC, Section I, p. 15, para. 43)

Sessions

First Session: 4, 6 and 7 March 1978, Manila, Philippines

Second Session:

3-8 December 1979, Hong Kong

Third Session: 28 April

4 May 1982, Sydney, Australia

Fourth Session:

23-29 August 1984, Jakarta, Indonesia

(iii)

(iv)

(v)

Fifth Session: 20-21 February 1987, Darwin, Australia

Eligibility for membership

Open to all member nations of IPFC. Each member government to designate one expert as member, plus an alternate and an adviser.

Terms of reference

To advise IPFC on scientific matters relating to the development and rational utilization of the fish resources in the Indo-Pacific

region.

(a)

(b)

In particular:

to advise on the state of resources and of the fisheries based on them;

to encourage research in the fields of biology, technology, socio-economics and related disciplines; and

(c) to encourage the improvement of national statistics in the

region.

Chairman

1987 Indonesia

(vi) Secretary

S.M. Garcia, FIRM