The principal provisions of the Convention are: 



1, It provides for establishment of a North Pacific 

 Fisheries Commission, composed of three national sections, 

 each with four members appointed by the governmsnts of 

 the respective parties to the Convention, It also authorizes 

 establishment of an Advisory Committee to each national 

 section, composed of persons well informed on North Pacific 

 fishery problems, 



2, The Convention requires that the appropriate parties 

 to the Convention will abstain from fishing stocks of fish 

 which meet specified criteria, as follows: 



a, the stocks are being fully utilized, so that more 

 intensive fishing will not provide a substantial increase in 

 yield which can be sustained; 



b, fishing is controlled by legal measures in ac- 

 cordance with conservation programs based on scientific 

 research; and 



c, the stocks are under extensive scientific study 

 designed to discover whether they are being fully utilized 

 and to determine the conditions necessary to obtain maximum 

 sustainable yield, 



3, The Annex to the Convention specifies certain stocks 

 of fish, which, at the tinne the Convention was negotiated, 

 were found to satisfy these criteria for abstention, 



4, It requires the Commission to study the stocks of fish 

 specified in the Annex to determine whether they continue to 

 qualify, 



5, It provides that on request by any of the three coun- 

 tries, the Commission shall study any other stock offish 

 in the North Pacific to determine whether it qualifies for 

 abstention, 



6, It provides that the countries fishing the stocks from 

 which certain other countries agree to abstain shall continue 

 to carry out necessary conservation measures for these 

 stocks, 



7, It provides that, on request of any of the three gov- 

 ernments, the Commission shall study any other fish stock 

 under substantial exploitation by two or more countries to 

 determine the need for joint conservation measures, 



8, The Convention provides that, if nationals or vessels 

 of a country not a party to the Convention adversely affect 

 the operations of the Commission, on request of any of the 

 three countries which are parties to the Convention, all the 

 contracting governments will confer to determine steps 

 necessary to obviate these adverse effects, 



9, It spells out provisions for enforcing the Convention 

 and the various rules under which the Commission shall 

 operate, 



10, The Protocol to the Convention specifies a provi- 

 sional line, east of which the Japanese will not fish anywhere 

 for salmon, and east of which the Canadians will not fish in 

 the Bering Sea for salmon. It further provides that the 

 Commission shall expeditiously investigate the area to 

 determine whether there are areas where stocks of salmon 



