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INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS OF OCEANOGRAPHY 



endeavor to bring about the greatest degree of standardi- 

 zation and coordination; and that the proceedings of the 

 different National Committees and Subcommittees be 

 reported to the International Chairman, who shall sub- 

 mit a general report to the Pacific Science Association. 

 IV. That the work of the Committee be conducted with 

 the intent of establishing for the Pacific an institution 

 similar to the North Atlantic International Council for 

 the Exploration of the Sea. 



Location: The Committee has no permanent central 

 office. The chairman is appointed at the end of 

 each Pacific Science Congress and serves until his 

 successor is designated. The Committee meets 

 in connection with the Pacific Science Congresses. 

 Organization to u'hich attached: Pacific Science Asso- 

 ciation, of which it is a standing Committee. 

 Purposes: To stimulate oceanographic research in 

 the Pacific, to enable the different countries whose 

 shores border the Pacific or which have possessions 

 in the Pacific to coordinate their researches, and 

 to standardize the methods and appliances used 

 in oceanographic research. 

 Scope of activities: Each national committee was em- 

 powered by the Fifth Pacific Science Congress 

 to establish five subcommittees as follows: 

 physical and chemical oceanography, marine 

 biology, corals and coral reefs, fisheries, and 

 fishery technologJ^ 

 Equipment: None. 



Staff: The composition of the International Com- 

 mittee on the Oceanography of the Pacific in 

 February, 1936, was as follows: 

 Australia, Mr. E. C. Andrews, formerly Govern- 

 ment Geologist, New South Wales, Sydney, 

 Australia. 

 Canada, Prof. C. McLean Eraser, University of 



British Columbia, Vancouver, B. C. 

 China, Mr. P. Z. Tsiang, Tsingtao Observatory, 



Tsingtao. 

 France. 



French Indo-China, Dr. P. Chevey, active direc- 

 tor, Institut Oc^anographique de I'lndochine. 

 Great Britain, Sir Gerald Lenox-Conyngham, 



Cambridge University. 

 Japan, Prof. H. Yabe, Tohoku Imperial Univer- 

 sity, Sendai. 

 Netherlands, Prof. Dr. E. van Everdingen, Jr., 

 Director, Netherlands Meteorological Institute, 

 De Bilt, Netherlands. 

 Netherlands East Indies, Prof. Dr. J. Boerema, 

 Director, Royal Magnetic and Meteorological 

 Observatory, Batavia. 



New Zealand, Dr. Patrick Marshall, New Zea- 

 land Institute, Wellington. 



Philippine Islands, Dr. Manuel L. Roxas, Chair- 

 man, Committee Physical-chemical Oceanog- 

 raphy, National Research Council, University 

 of the Philippines, Manila. 



Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, Prof. 

 J. M. Schokalsky, Academy of Science, Lenin- 

 grad. 



United States of America, Prof. T. G. Thompson, 

 Director, Oceanographic Laboratories, Univer- 

 sity of Washington, Seattle, Washington, Chair- 

 man. 

 Provisions for visiting investigators: None. 

 Income: No special funds are allotted. 

 Provisions for publication: The reports on the work 



of the Committee are published in the Proceedings 



of the different Pacific Science Congresses. 



International Fisheries Commission ('37) 



History or origin: Established by a treaty ratified 

 on October 21, 1924, between Canada and the 

 United States for preservation of the halibut 

 fishery of the northern Pacific Ocean including 

 the Bering Sea. 



The treaty provided for an entire cessation of 

 halibut fishing for three months of each year and 

 for the appointment of an International Fisheries 

 Commission, to consist of two commissioners 

 from each country. The duties of the Commis- 

 sion were to make a thorough investigation into 

 the life history of the halibut, to report the 

 results of the same to the two governments, and 

 to make recommendations regarding any desirable 

 changes in the closed season and as to other 

 regulation of the fishery for its preservation and 

 development. 



As a result of its biological and statistical 

 studies of the species and its fishery, the Com- 

 mission became con\'inced that the stocks of 

 halibut could not stand the intensity of fishing 

 to which they were being subjected, and that 

 additional regulation was necessary for the 

 preservation of the fishery. 



Early in 1928, the Commission reported its 

 findings to the two governments and recom- 

 mended: the limitation of the catch in the dif- 

 ferent sections of the coast, according to their 

 indi\adual needs and the annual reduction of the 

 limits until the declme which was taking place 

 in each section should cease; the extension of the 

 closed season with provision for its adjustment 



