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IPFC Working Party on Aquaculture

(1)

Establishment

Fifteenth Session of IPFC, 18-27 October 1972, Wellington, New Zealand. (Proc.Fifteenth Session IPFC, Section I)

(ii) Sessions

First Session: 14-17 October 1972, Wellington, New Zealand

Second Session: 26-29 October 1974, Jakarta, Indonesia

Third Session: 31 August - 3 September 1976, Bangkok, Thailand

1-2 March 1978, Manila, Phlippines

Fourth Session:

Fifth Session: 22-26 January 1980, Jakarta, Indonesia

Sixth Session: 19-25 January 1984, New Delhi, India

Seventh Session: 1-6 August 1988, Bangkok, Thailand

(iii) Eligibility for membership

(iv)

Experts (individuals serving in personal capacity) nominated by the Director-General

1988 Australia, Bangladesh, China, Indonesia, Korea, (Republic

of), Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Viet Nam.

Terms of reference

The terms of reference originally proposed by the Working Party at its First Session (14-17 October 1972, Wellington, New Zealand) and approved by the Commission at its Fifteenth Session, were subsequently changed as recommended by SCORRAD at its Second Session (3-8 December 1979, Hong Kong) as follows:

(a) to assist in the collection and dissemination of information

on aquaculture research;

(b)

to promote and coordinate surveys on aquaculture and its potential for future develoment;

(c) to promote and coordinate studies of the economics of aqua-

culture covering the levels of the cost/benefit ratios and investment in different types of aquaculture in comparison with alternative uses of land and water, and the economics of different culture practices in relation to the most efficient utilization of capital investment;

(d) to coordinate the FAO/IPFC Cooperative Programme of Research

on Aquaculture; and

(e) to liaise with the appropriate working party through SCORRAD

where problems of the aquatic environment affecting aqua- culture have been identified.