International Council for the Exploration of the
Sea (ICES)
ICES is the oldest oceanographic organization in
the North Atlantic area and is the premier body for
giving advice at the international level on scientific
and policy matters relating to fisheries, pollution,
and other marine environmental issues. ICES provides
advice on pollution matters to the London, Oslo,
and Helsinki Conventions for Marine Pollution and,
on fisheries matters to the Convention for the Conservation
of Salmon in the North Atlantic Ocean; the U.S. is
a party to all of these conventions. ICES also has
strong formal ties to the Intergovernmental Oceanographic
Commission (IOC), to which the United States belongs,
and the annual ICES meeting is the major forum for
coordinating and planning the execution of ICES/IOC
joint research on living marine resources in the
North Atlantic.
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