to draft an equity position that Canada can agree with, which Canada has used as 

 an excuse to walk out of negotiations. 



The negotiations for 1994 have been put off until 1995 in the hopes of getting an 

 agreement at that time. Both parties have agreed to abide by the principles of the 

 Treaty, conservation and management of intermingling stocks, and to work towards 

 a resolution in 1995. 



Mr. Chairman, I hope that today's witnesses will shed some light on how these 

 differences among the U.S. Commission members and between the U.S. and Cana- 

 dian interests can be worked out so that Annex IV to this important Treaty can be 

 renewed. 



Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 



Mr. Manton. Does the gentleman from New Jersey have any 

 statement? 

 If not, the gentlewoman from Washington. 



STATEMENT OF HON. JOLENE UNSOELD, A U.S. 

 REPRESENTATIVE FROM WASHINGTON 



Ms. Unsoeld. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 



Since 1985, the Treaty has been the means for our international 

 management of Northwest salmon. At the time of its signing, 

 Northwesterners were told that the Treaty was carefully structured 

 to protect the salmon and that based on the principles incorporated 

 into the Treaty, it was carefully structured to protect the salmon, 

 and that based on those Treaty's principles of conservation, the two 

 countries would cooperate to protect the stocks from overfishing. 



But looking back, reality has changed and shifted away from the 

 Treaty that began with such good intentions. Instead of fulfilling 

 the promise of rebuilding prized chinook and coho, we have many 

 of these stocks facing threatened or endangered status. Instead of 

 fulfilling the promise of security of salmon for ourselves and com- 

 ing generations, we have unprecedented levels of Federal disaster 

 assistance flowing to our salmon-dependent communities. 



More than a year ago, Assistant Secretary of State Elinor Con- 

 stable notified our U.S. commissioners that we were not meeting 

 the conservation needs of chinook, and thus in jeopardy of not ful- 

 filling our international obligations under the Treaty. Yet, since 

 that time little, if any, progress has been made. Status quo man- 

 agement continues. Our failure to respond under the Treaty to the 

 conservation crises of Pacific salmon is a travesty. 



As endless meetings of national and international bureaucracies 

 discuss their fate, our stocks continue to suffer. With time running 

 out, I look forward to this hearing as an opportunity to explore 

 ways to improve the treaty process and its effect on our salmon. 



Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding the meeting. 



Mr. Manton. The Chair will now call up the panel. 



At that point I will turn the Chair over to Ms. Unsoeld and go 

 to the Floor for my statement on the pending maritime matters 

 and try to get back before the hearing is over. 



Mr. Gary Matlock, Program Officer, National Oceanic and At- 

 mospheric Administration; our former colleague, the Honorable Ed- 

 ward Derwinski, of Derwinski and Associates, International Con- 

 sultants; Mr. Charles Meacham, Deputy Commissioner, Alaska De- 

 partment of Fish and Game; Mr. Gerald I. James, Policy Director 

 of the Lummi Tribe; and Mr. Bob Turner, Washington Department 

 of Fish and Wildlife. 



