APPENDIX III APPENDIX III 
Management Controls 
The International Pacific Halibut Commission's sole 
function of Pacific halibut is to maximize management yield 
for the benefit of Canada and the United States. The Com- 
mission has promulgated conservation measures, such as 
establishing catch limits, season length, and minimum size 
of harvestable halibut to rebuild and maintain the halibut 
stock at a level of maximum yield. 
The cost of operating the International Pacific Hali- 
but Commission is shared equally by the Governments of 
Canada and the United States. The United States appropriates 
funds for the Commission throuagh the Devartment of State, 
while Canada's Department of Environment funds their share 
of operational costs. 
In 1951 the Tripartite Convention for the High Seas 
Fisheries of the North Pacific Ocean established the Inter- 
national North Pacific Fisheries Commission of Canada, Japan, 
and the United States. This Convention was to "* * * ensure 
the maximum sustained productivity of the fishery resources 
Of (the! NowehePacwtac. | 
Included in the annex of the Convention are conditions 
of abstention for certain stocks of halibut already being 
exploited. The halibut originating along the North American 
coast qualified for abstention by Japan and remained under 
the jurisdiction of the Canadian and United States Commis- 
Sion. Halibut caught west of 175° Ww. longitude, however, 
were not considered to be of North American origin and did 
not qualify for abstention. In 1962 the International North 
Pacific Fisheries Commission decided that the halibut caught 
in the Bering Sea east of 1s754 We longitude no longer quali- 
fied for abstention, thereby placing management responsi- 
bility with their own Commission. Consequently, the condition 
of halibut stocks in the eastern Bering Sea is reviewed 
annually by two international fisheries bodies. 
OPPORTUNITIES FOR GROWTH AND 
DEVELOPMENT OF THE FISHERY 
Resource availability 
Halibut stocks in the Northeast Pacific, the Gulf of 
Alaska, and the Bering Sea are in such serious condition 
that a reduction in the incidental halibut catch would be 
required to improve stock abundance. 
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