6. Moriarty announced that the 81st Statutory Meeting of ICES, held in Dublin in 1993, had agreed to the proposal of EIFAC that a joint Working Group on Eel be re-established and had approved its terms of reference. This proposal was adopted by the Eighteenth Session of EIFAC held in Rome, Italy from 17 to 24 May 1994. Moriarty had been appointed Chairman of the new Working Group and Willem Dekker, Chairman of the former ICES Working Group on Eel, had been appointed Vice-Chairman. The terms of reference were read to the Working Group and adopted by it (Annex B).
7. During the intersessional period the following had occurred:
The selected papers from the Seventh Session had been published as Irish Fisheries Investigations Series A No. 36 and had been circulated to all authors. Copies were available from Moriarty on request.
Selected papers from the Eighth Session had been accepted for publication in Archiwum Rybactwa Polskiego.
The Cooperative Groups on Eel Recruitment, on Growth and on Contaminants had reported progress and these issues would be covered in the current Session.
