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IPFC Special Committee on Management of Indo-Pacific Tuna

(1) Establishment

Fourteenth Session of IPFC, 18-27 November 1970, Bangkok, Thailand (Proc.Fourteenth Session IPFC), Section I, para. 138

(ii) Sessions

First Session: 21-23 April 1971, Rome, Italy, followed by joint meetings with the 10FC Committee on Management of Indian Ocean Tuna

First Joint Meeting: 22-23 April 1971, Rome, Italy

Second Joint Meeting:

5-6 October 1972, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Third Joint Meeting: 18-19 July 1975, Mombasa, Kenya

Fourth Joint Meeting:

29-30 October 1976, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Fifth Joint Meeting: 3-4 March 1978, Manila, Philippines

Sixth Joint Meeting:

20-22 February 1980, Perth, Australia

(iii) Eligibility for Membership

At its Nineteenth Session (Kyoto, Japan, 1980), the Commission decided that the membership of the IPFC Special Committee on Management of Indo-Pacific Tuna should be made open-ended so that any member country of the Commission could become a member of the Committee, if it wished.

1980 Joint Meeting: Australia, France, India, Indonesia, Japan,

Kenya, Korea (Republic of), Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States of America.

(iv) Terms of reference

(a)

(b)

to review the state of the stocks of tuna in the Indo-Pacific area, in relation to the present level of exploitation and likely future development;

to consider the boundaries of the area that have to be taken into account in any future management of tuna in the western Pacific, considering the movements of fish and fishing vessels;

(c) to review, for purposes of discussion and information, measures

that might be considered for management and development plan- ning of the tuna fisheries in the IPFC area, and to suggest the administrative and other actions that would be required to put such measures into effect; and

1/ IOFC only