Recently, according to news released by the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), Associate Professor Zhu Guoping, teacher of the College of Marine Sciences of SHOU, has been elected as Vice Chairman of the Fund Management Team Juniors of the Community Ecological Monitoring Program (CEMP) of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR). This marks that the researches conducted by SHOU on Antarctic marine living resources have made new breakthroughs, and have been recognized by international counterparts.
The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) is an inter-governmental organization established according to the Conventions on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, and also a multilateral agency responsible for managing living resources in Antarctic waters, headquartered at Hobart, Capital of the State of Tasmania, Australia. The committee is mainly responsible for formulating conservation measures and fishery management policies, and promoting the conservation and sustainable utilization of Antarctic marine living resources. Currently, the committee has 24 member states; China formally joined the committee on October 2, 2007. In 2010, SHOU began to attend related meetings of the committee, including the work-group, scientific sub-committee and committee meetings.