Recommendations from Life Sciences

New External Recommendations 2006:

Concerning the Agreement for the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP)
- Recollecting Recommendations SCAR XXVI-Biol 8, SCAR XXVII-Biol 1, SCAR XXVII-LSSSG 13 and SCAR XXVIII-LSSSG 3, covering threats to Southern Ocean seabirds due to mortality in longline fisheries, and noting the entry into force of the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels in 2004, SCAR requests relevant National Committees to contact the relevant adhering body within their country to ensure that they have produced their FAO National Plans of Action – Seabirds and/or ratified the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels.
On the recording of confidential data from commercial activities
- Concerned that valuable scientific data, collected from Antarctica and the Southern Ocean through commercial activities such as bio-prospecting, is not being released for scientific use, and that such commercial activities may not even be recorded anywhere at present, SCAR calls on National Committees to ensure that a metadata entry is made in the Antarctic Master Data Directory whenever possible to provide a record of all such activities. Such an entry should record if possible a statement about when full data disclosure could be expected.