75. The Committee was informed that the group of experts for the GFCM/SAC Glossary met during the recent meetings of the SAC Sub-Committees in Barcelona. The group revised the present entries in the Glossary and pointed out the need to clean up the list as there were repetitions and double definitions for the same terms. Part of this work could be carried out throughout the year via email correspondence but it would also be necessary that the scientists contributing to the Glossary meet at least once a year, possibly during the annual meetings of the Sub-Committees. SAC noted that the Sub-Committee on Economic and Social Sciences collaborated in the revision of the terms related to fishery legislation.
76. The Glossary is presently available on both COPEMED and SCSA ftp sites. It was suggested that instead of storing the file under the.DOC format, it should be transferred to a PDF format and that the feasibility and the costs of translating the Glossary into the other languages of the Commission should be evaluated.
77. As a follow-up to a recommendation made at the recent GFCM/ICCAT Working Group for FAO, GFCM and ICCAT to adopt a common terminology on the tuna farming/fattening practice, FAO presented preliminary work on this which included related terms and definitions from specialized glossaries and reference publications. It was proposed to adopt the term "tuna farming" and the following draft definition: "Tuna farming currently involves the collection of wild fish, ranging from small to large specimens, and their rearing in floating cages for periods spanning from a few months up to 1-2 years. Fish weight increment or change in the fat content of the flesh is obtained through standard fish farming practices. Confinement of captured fish during short periods of time (2-6 months) aimed mostly at increasing the fat content of the flesh, which strongly influences the prizes of the tuna meat on the Japanese sashimi market, can also be referred to as 'Tuna fattening'. Future tuna farming practices may evolve to encompass a closed life cycle, i.e. the rearing of larvae in laboratory conditions".
