Prof. Terazaki reported to the Sub-Commission that the Proceedings were already published and distributed to the participants of the present Session. He presented an overview of the Symposium that was divided into four different sessions concerning physical oceanography, geology, ecology, and chemistry. There were six workshops held in conjunction with the Symposium, on numerical modeling of the Gulf of Thailand, NEAR-GOOS, Remote Sensing applications for ICAM, SEA-GOOS, ICAM and OSNLR. 67 Participants from 12 countries outside Japan, and some 120 people from Japan and 6 people from IOC attended the Symposium. A total of 80 presentations were given during the Symposium. Prof. Terazaki also showed a financial statement.