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jurisdiction of the United States, there will be little need for such 
executive agreements. Until such time, existing bilateral executive 
agreements will probably need to be renegotiated with a view towards 
improving conservation neasures in the Northeastern Pacific Ocean and 
Bering Sea and to take into account the extension of fisheries juris- 
diction to 200 miles by the United States. 
In summary, there are about six foreign nations actively engaged in 
fishing off the coast of Alaska and in the Bering Sea.!! There are up 
to 300 foreign fishing vessels fishing in this area during the year, 
taking two to two and one-half million metric tons of fish. These 
foreign fisheries have substantially reduced the stocks of groundfish 
off the coast of Alaska and stocks of salmon of the Bering Sea and 
Aleutian Islands, obviously reducing the potential harvest to American 
fishermen. However, the international treaties and executive agreements, 
which relate to the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea, have been partially 
successful in preventing overfishing and minimizing the adverse effects 
of increased foreign fishing effort on United States fisheries. Of 
these several conventions and agreements, the North Pacific Fur Seal 
Commission, the International Pacific Halibut Commission, and the 
International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission continue to be partic- 
ularly effective. With regard to the International North Pacific Fisheries 
Commission and the bilateral executive agreements, these agreements have 
served a limited but useful purpose and will be replaced by new and more 
effective arrangements negotiated in the context of the Conservation and 
Management Act of 1976 (PL 94-265). 
The Pacific Coast States 
Extensive foreign fishing occurs in the coastal waters of California, 
Oregon, and Washington. The International Pacific Salmon Fisheries 
Commission, involving the pink and sockeye salmon of northern Puget 
Sound and southern British Columbia, is the major international commission 
in the geographic area encompassed by the Pacific Council proposed under 
the Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976, (although the 
International North Pacific Fisheries Commission has some responsibilities 
in the area with respect to fisheries of Japan, the United States, and 
Canada). As mentioned previously, negotiations are currently taking 
place between the United States and Canada to redefine the limits of the 
Salmon Commission, incorporating additional species of salmon of common 
concern to both countries. It will permit an improved method of coordination 
for research and management of salmon runs migrating along the coast of 
the United States and British Columbia to southeastern Alaska. Salmon 
troll fishermen from the United States fish off the coast of British 
Columbia and substantial numbers of Canadian salmon trollers fish off 
the coast of southeastern Alaska as far north as Cape Spencer and to the 
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