Desarrollo de la Antártica

Takesi Nagata I THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ••• Recently, investigations of Antarctic krills have thus become acto ¡,ve: These are, for example, the Soviet researches by m/s "Muksan" in 1961-62, by m/s "Akademician Knipovidh" in 1965 and 1966-67, Japanese researches by ¡n/s "Chiyoda-Marn" in 1972,73, West-Ger– man researches by m/s "Walther Herwig" and a trawler, 1P0lish ones by m/s "Professor Siedleccki" and a trawler both in 1975-76. In these regards, SCAR Sub-Committee on Marine Living Resources in the Southern Ocean has strongly recommended an International BIOMASS program in the Southern Ocean to ihelp ensu.re the wise and careful conservation and u,tiliw;tio:rz, of the marine living resources for tbe benefit of present and future generations of mankind. The specific aim of this program is to avoid the mistakes that caused the collapse of the whale stocks in the past. ii. Squids, 'Fisihes and Others In addition to E. superba, there are at present other marine living re– sources such as squids, fishes, etc., in the Antarctic Ocean, and very little has been known about their productivity, ecology and biology. Judging from the consumption amount by whales, in particular, me biomass of squids is expected to amount to (Y3 ,..., Yz) of that of krills. 'I1heses living resources also should be able to be beneficial to manikind, if their man's consumptions can be properly controlled. 'I'he above-mentioned BlOMASS program convers all these marine lives too. e) Global. Uti~ízatíon 01 Antarctic Scientilic Data In the remaining years of this Century and in the early periad of the next Century, mankind ibas to discover the wisest possible way to fully utilize the earth's natural resources as well as the solar and terrestrial energy sources with minimum possible loss. In this re· gard, Antarctica is not outside the world any more, but on tbe con– trary this southernmost continent covered by tibick cold ice and extende/d around the Southenn geomagnetic pole must be :regarded as one of the most important sources or sinks oí energy t~ control the earth's atmosphere and oceans and even tihe human lile. The Antarctic is singularly the very important key area in the global hydrodynamics, thermodynamics, electromagnetic dynamics and geochemistry of the whole earuh. In this sense, we cannot promote the global earth scÍences at present without meteorological, geode. tic, oceanographic, upper atmospheric, and glacial data from Ant– arctica at tibe present leve! or prefera'bly at a Ihigher leve!. 12 5