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Responsible Fishing. The theme of sustainable development, 

 arising from the United Nations Conference on Environment and 

 Development, has moved to the center stage of international 

 fisheries conservation and management. These processes are 

 ongoing, but underline the fact that the scenarios we face off 

 both of our major coasts are but examples of problems facing the 

 world at large. 



I would first like to turn to the Central Bering Sea. We face 

 the challenge of leading the distant water fishing countries of 

 China, Japan, the Republic of Korea, and Poland to a sensible 

 system of conserving the valuable pollock resource found there. 

 We welcome and wholeheartedly support H. Con. Res. 135, which 

 supports a continuation of these efforts. 



Through an approach pursued in late 1990, we have supported and 

 participated in the diplomatic process of trying to bring 

 appropriate order to the essentially unregulated pollock 

 fisheries in the Central Bering Sea (the donut hole) . To prepare 

 for this, we worked with our colleagues at the Department of 

 State, the U.S. Coast Guard, in industry, state governments, and 

 with our Russian counterparts, to coordinate policy and 

 presentations. As detailed in the testimony of Ambassador 

 Colson, we have achieved a voluntary suspension of all commercial 

 fishing in the donut hole during 1993-1994, during which time all 

 involved countries are committed to negotiating a long-term 



