A Brief Review of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) on the Occasion of the Formation of the North Pacific Marine Science Organization
Elements of the first 90 years of the North Atlantic organization the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) have been examined to illustrate its functions and some of its achievements. The 17-nation Council, founded in 1902 to deal with overfishing in northern European marine a...
| Published in: | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Canadian Science Publishing
1991
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/f91-295 http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/f91-295 |
| Summary: | Elements of the first 90 years of the North Atlantic organization the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) have been examined to illustrate its functions and some of its achievements. The 17-nation Council, founded in 1902 to deal with overfishing in northern European marine areas, now represents countries on both sides of the Atlantic. Its mandate is to promote marine science and provide advice on the rational use of marine living resources. To accomplish this it stimulates and coordinates cooperative research programmes in the biology of marine, anadromous, and catadromous species, mariculture, fisheries assessment, pollution, and physical and chemical oceanography. |
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