Commissioner Brooding (center) addressing the Alaska Legislature. 



STATEMENT OF THE UNITED STATES SECTION 



INTERNATIONAL NORTH PACIFIC 

 FISHERIES COMMISSION 



Presented by 

 Milton E. Brooding, Chairman 



Mr. Chairman, Members of the Legislature, Ladies and 

 Gentlemen: 



It is a privilege for the United States Section of the 

 International North Pacific Fisheries Commission to meet 

 here for the second time. When we received the invitation 

 from Governor Egan to hold our next meeting here in 

 Juneau, we immediately took steps to do so. Being here is 

 a most enjoyable experience and we deeply appreciate the 

 courteous reception extended us. We have had an opportunity 

 to become better acquainted with the Alaska viewpoint and 

 it is our hope that we can impart to you a better under- 

 standing of the North Pacific Fisheries Convention- -its 

 problems, and some of the accomplishnaents of the Com- 

 mission set up to administer its provisions. 



It seems quite appropriate, in fact quite necessary, that 

 this be done, for there can be no question that affairs of the 

 Internationcil North Pacific Fisheries Commission impinge 

 more directly upon the public welfare of the people of Alaska 

 than those of any other of our coastal states, although all 

 these states have a deep interest in the affairs of this 

 Commission. 



