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FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF TEE UNITED NATIONS INDO-PAC1FIC FISHERIE5 COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS 8th SESSION COLOMBO CEYLON 6-22 December 1958 SECTION I IPFC Secretariat, FA0 &egiod Mce for Asia and the Far East Bangkok 1958 CONTENTS Opening Address by the Minister of Industries and Fisheries. Government of Ceylon ....................................... Message of Welcome from Prime Minister of Ceylon ........................... Address by Brector.Genera1. FA0 ....................................... Message from Director. Fisheries Dioision. FA0 .............................. Address by the Chairman. Dr . K . Kuronuma ................................. Agenda for the Eighth Session .......................................... CHAPTER 1. COUNCIL PROCEDURE .................................... Opening Ceremony ....................................... Statements from Member Governments ....................... Statements from Observer Organizations ........................ Election of Vice-Chairman ................................. Steering Committee ....................................... Membership ............................................. Report on Credentials ....................................... Report of Executive Cbmmittee .............................. Relations with FA0 ....................................... Relations with Other Organizations ........................... Council's Report to FA0 .................................... Implementation of 7th Session Recommendations .................. Documentation for 8th Session .............................. Nomination of Technical Chmnittees ........................... Council Correspondents .................................... Technical Committee Meetings .............................. Reports of Technical and Sub-Committees ..................... Financial and Budget Report ................................. Expenditure 1958 .......................................... Programme of Expenditure 1959 .............................. Proposed Budget Estimate 1960-61 ........................... Council's Symposium ....................................... Amendments to the Agreement .............................. Organization of the Council's work ........................... Time and Place of 9th Session .............................. Election of Chairman ....................................... Participation in International Meetings ........................ Principals of Fisheries Policy .............................. 9- fndo-Pacific Fisheries Year ................................. Formal Resolution of Thanks ................................. C HAP-TER 2 . RESOURCES ............... Reference Books ............... Age determination of fish ......... Standardization of Plankton Nets ... Identification of fish and lankt ton Population dynamics ............ Fish culture in genera1 ......... Diurnal feeding rhythms ......... Soil compostion in fish ponds .............................. Problems arising from the introduction of non-Indigenous Fishes ...... Weed Control ............................................. Stocking of natural swamps and other economically unproductive waters Fish Culture in Rice Fields ................................. Nutrition of fish under cultivation ..................... Chnos .......................................... River Basin Development .............................. Water Pollution .................................... Mugil ............................................. National resoarces for the study of basic'productivity of the sea Faunal Changes ........................ Trawling .............................. Oceanography ........................ Tuna ................................. Satdines .............................. UNESCO .............................. Appendix : Report of Technical Committee I ... CHAPTER 3. TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS ......... General .............................. Craft and Gear ........................ Food Technology ........................ Statistics .............................. Socio-Economics ........................ Fish Marketing ........................ Appendix : Report of Technical Committee II ... CHAPTER 4. PUBLICATIONS .................. Council Proceedings ............... Eighth Session Symposium ......... Current Maim Bulletin ............ Reference Baoks .................. CHAPTER 5 . TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE ......... Training Centers .................. Aid-Giving Agencies ............... Expert Assistance .................. CHAPTER 6. RECOMMENDATIONS ............ A . to Member Governments ...:..... 3. to FA0.*.............-,.-... C. Executive Committee & Secretariat D . Technical Committee erc.......... E. Technical Assistance ............ REPORT ON THE STATUS OF THE INDUSTRY 1. List of Delegates and Observers ............ 11.' IPFC Nominations for the period between 8th and 9th Sessions IIf . List of Documents ..................................... OPEXING ADDRESS BY THE HON. MR. P.H. WILLIAM DE SILVA, MINISTER OF INDUSTRIES AND FISHERIES, CEYLON, AT THE EIGHTH SESSlON OF THE INDO-PACIFIC FISHERIES COUNCIL Mr. Chairman. Delegates, Ladies and Contributing factors towards this sad state of Genhnen, affairs are ignmance of the seas beyond a few miles from the coast, small scale fishing opera- It gives me great to be here today tions by individuals without su6cient capital to open the eighth session of the Indo-Paci6c and the use of primitive craft and gear. Fisheries Council. We cannot afford to maintain for long our On behalf of the Government oi Ceylon I obsolefe fishing craft and gear but it is ex- extend a warm welc.ome to delegates, officials tremely difficult to efEect changes in the tradi- and visitors from other countries who have come tional methods adopted by our fishing popula- here for this conference. I trust that all of you tion. In this difficult but essential task it is will enjoy your stay in Colombo and hope that heartening to receive the advice and assistance you will have time to see something of the rest of those who have successfully coped with of this Island before you leave. similar probIems in other countries. Looking round at my distinguished In recent. years our country has received audience here today, I have not the slightest considerable assistance from the parent body of doubt that this conference is going to be a very this Council, namely the Food and Agricultural profitable one to all concerned. Discussions and Organization of the United Nations. Through deliberations among fishery workers in a group this agency, services of skilled technical per- such as this cannot fail to be both rewarding sonnel have been made freely available to us, and stimulating, thus generating the enthusiasm In addition, generous gifts of nets, motors and so necessary for attacking the many difficult boats have enabled us to make some progress problems before us. towards modernizing our fishing industry. The fishing industry in Ceylon is just I note with pleasure the intensely prac- emerging from a state of arrested development. ticaI approach of this Council towards the fish- Techniques and methods of a hundred years ago eries problems of the Indo-Pacific Region, and are used more or less unchanged today. There the bold step of organizing panels and com- is a wide gap between what our people do now mittees to guide an international group of and the possibilities offered by modern science. scientific workers along a common path. This It is only by the application of modern scientific is a very practical application of the fact that techniques that we can develop and utilize to the fisheries of a11 Indo-Pacific countries are the full our national resources, and raise the closety linked. A scientist from Ceylon has standard of living of our people. A welI- participated in a recent seminar in Bangkok developed fishing industry will provide avenues which sought to correla~estudies of a particular of exiploymene as well as food, both of which fish, the mackerel, by workers in different coun- are vital problems to our rapidly growing popula- tries. This session has scheduled a symposium tion. Fish is particularly important to us as a on fish behavior which cannot be studied swrse of food as i.t supplies iz a form accepta- effectively by workers in oce country alone. ble to our people the much needed protein Through these and other projects this Council which is known to be lacking in our diet. We is performing the useful and essential functicm look forward, with the help of this Council, to of coordinating research on an internetional rnak:"tlg good the arrested development in the scale to the ucdoubted benefit of each member past. couztry, X therefore hope that every encourage- Ceylon has a coastline of over 1,000 miles ment will be given the Council to expand its ar.d is placed advantagecmly overlo~kirlga vast activities. oceart which stretches ccbroken down to the I wish the Council all success in its Antarctic across the entire southern hemi- deliberations adI hvegreat pleasure in dedar- sphere. Yet our fishing industry produces only ing open -the 8th Session of the Indo-Pacific about half this Island's requirements of fish. Fisheries Couccil. MESSAGE OF WELCOME BY THE HON. PRIME MINISTER OF CEYLON, MR. S.W.R.D. BANDARANAIKE, TO THE EIGHTH SESSION OF THE INDO-PACIFIC FISHERIES COUNCIL Mr. Cha-n, Hoaorable Delegates. We have in our midst, today, a dis- Ldes and Gentlemen, tinguished gathering of Fisheries Administra- I have great pleasure in weIcoming you tors and Experts frsm several countries.