Special Committee on Management of Indo-Pacific Tuna
related
33. The terms of reference of the Special Committee on Management of Indo- research and management. Pacific Tuna are
stock assessment, tuna They are reproduced in full on pages 7 and 8 of IPFC/90/Inf.12.
to
in 1971,
this for its First
all 34.
Session
six other sessions of Except for Committee from 1971 to 1980 have been held jointly with the IOFC Committee on At its Twenty-first Session in 1984, IPFC Management of Indian Ocean Tuna.
that it should meet decided that this practice should be discontinued and independently. But no meetings have been held so far, and the exercise of the Committee's functions is in
The performance of the state of abeyance. a in the future are likely to Committee's functions
be affected by (i) the the Indo-Pacific Tuna Management and Development progress already made by Programme (IPTP) toward the establishment of a regional data base (ii) ongoing investigations into the interactions of the Pacific Ocean tuna fisheries, and (iii) the proposal presently under way to establish an Indian
The Ocean Tuna
Commission may wish Commission. Committee should be reconvened or disbanded.
reconvened
The Working Parties
to
consider
>
on tuna;
whether this
35. The
on Fish Technology and terms of reference of the Working Parties Marketing, Aquaculture and Inland Fisheries are reproduced on pages 12, 13 and 15 respectively of IPFC/90/Inf.12.
36. The functions of the Working Party on Fish Technology and Marketing relate to cooperative fish technology research projects and project proposals from the region. In regard to the former, the Working Party has functioned as the coordinating mechanism for implementing the work programme of the project The "Support to Asian Fish Technology Institutes" funded by Australia. functions of the Working Party on Aquaculture relate mainly to research,
and economic
environmental problems. development surveys, functions of the Working Party on Inland Fisheries relate to research and problems of statistics, technology and aquaculture.
studies
The
resources,
Structure
37.
Within
structured mechanism to Committee and Working Parties constitute a assist the IPFC in carrying out its functions and responsibilities. this, the CDMS CS occupies a special place in that, while being a subsidiary
the of
functions extends to body
its IPFC,
shouldering assistance responsibilities of IPFC, in a limited portion of the Indo-Pacific region.
prevailing
as
is 1987 38. The structure
at February organizational chart in Part A of page 2 of IPFC/90/Inf.12.
and
and
The
in the depicted According to this
came under the working parties structure,
the supervision of SCORRAD (and the Executive Committee) to the Commission. reported through it (and the Executive Committee) organizational chart in Part B of page 2 of IPFC/90/Inf.12 shows the structure revised in accordance with the recommendation of the IPFC at its Twenty-second to above Session in 1987, pertaining to the functions of SCORRAD referred (paragraph 23), in terms of which the Working Parties are the Commission (through the Executive Committee).
Member Participation
to report direct
to
The participation of members
in
the last six sessions of IPFC and all It will be noted that of CDMSCS and SCORRAD is shown in Annex I.
39. sessions
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