Report of Standing Committee on Research and Statistics (STACRES) Annual Meeting, May-June 1978

Abstract

Meetings of STACRES and its Subcommittees were held at Bonn, Federal Republic of Germany, during 18-28 May 1978 to consider and report to the Commission on matters listed in its Agenda (Part D, this volume) and on 2 June 1978 to consider the request from Panel 3 for advice on the feasibility of suspending the application of the current mesh size regulations for redfish on the Flemish Cap (Div. 3M), pending the completion of scientific analysis of the problem (Com. Doc. 7a/VI/i2). With the resignation of Dr A. W. May (Canada) 8S announced in Circular Letter 78/30, Dr E. C. Lopez-Veiga (Spain) agreed, with the unanimous approval of all representatives present at the first session of STACRES, to act as Chairman for this Annual Meeting. Representatives were present for the various sessions of STACRES and its Subcommittees from Canada, Cuba, Denmark, France, Federal Republic of Germany, German Democratic Republic, Japan, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Observers attended from United States of America (USA), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Statistical Office of the European Economic Communities (Eurostat), and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). [...] Illex,squid, Gadus morhua, cod, redfish, Merluccius bilinearis, silver hake, Urophycis chuss, red hake, roundnose grenadier, Mallotus villosus, capelin, Melanogrammus aeglefinus, haddock, Pectinidae, scallops, A. plaice, Glyptocephalus cynoglossus, witch, yellowtail, Reinhardtius hippoglossoides, Greenland halibut, Argentina, argentine, Caridea, shrimp, Clupea harengus, herring [...]