FOREWORD 



This paper has been ^vritten against a rapidly moving background. 

 Japan, Canada, and the United States have suspended, for a few 

 months, their negotiations toward a new treaty to replace the 1953 

 International Convention for the High Seas Fisheries of the North 

 Pacific Ocean. The negotiations to date have resulted in no essential 

 change in the diverse positions of the three countries. In the mean- 

 time, Canada has announced her intention to extend her territorial 

 limits to 12 miles. Japanese and Soviet fishing activity in the north- 

 eastern Pacific has increased and is still increasing. Against this 

 rapidly moving background the authors have tried to present some 

 of the important data and arguments relevant to the pressing prob- 

 lems brought on by these events. We would be quick to note that in 

 these few pages we have not given the exhaustive treatment to some 

 of these issues they deserve. Further research on these issues is essen- 

 tial, and we hope will follow this writing. 



It is ^vith gratitude that w^e acknowledge the help given us by a 

 number of people to whom we distributed an earlier draft of this 

 paper, and ^vho gave us many excellent comments and suggestions. 

 These include Prof. W. W. Bishop, University of Michigan; Prof. 

 Hans Linde, University of Oregon; Profs. Carl Bradshaw, J. A. 

 Crutchfield, D. F. Henderson, G. J. Paulik, W. F. Royce, and Pro- 

 fessor Emeritus W. F. Thompson, University of Washington; Mr. 

 F. H. Bell, present Director of the International Pacific Halibut 



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