IOC Harmful Algal Bloom Website

The outline of an international programme was completed by a broad spectrum of experts at an IOC-SCOR workshop, Newport, USA, in November 1991. After revision by the newly established Intergovernmental Panel on Harmful Algae in June 1992, the Programme consisted of three main elements: A scientific element, an operational element, and an educational element. The Harmful Algal Bloom Programme Plan (Annex VII in this Report) was adopted by the Seventeenth Session of the IOC Assembly in 1993 as a part of IOC follow-up to UNCED Agenda 21, Chapter 17. Many IOC member States have confirmed the importance and urgency to adequately address the HAB problem. In 2009 IPHAB adopted a Strategy to strengthen implementation of the IOC HAB Programme.