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Fish like the sockeye salmon seen 

 here waiting to spaicn in inland 

 maters of British Columbia arc the 

 suiject of international conservation 

 and management measures involving 

 several fisheries nations. 



evaluating the operations of existing fish- 

 eries conventions, suggesting measures to 

 improve and coordinate their activities, 

 and recommending the establishment of 

 new conventions. The establishment of 

 new conventions should not await the 

 threatened depletion of particular fish 

 stocks. 



The commissions created by these conven- 

 tions should recommend measures to max- 

 imize the utilization of fish stocks, con- 

 sistent with their conservation, and aid 

 the developing countries in promoting 

 their fisheries and in training scientific 

 and technical personnel for this purpose. 



Duty To Comply with Conservation Reg- 

 ulations The fisheries coniinissions — ^^tlie ad- 

 ministrative agencies created by the fisheries 

 conventions to implement their purposes — 

 generally liave only the power to recommend 

 conservation regulations to the member na- 

 tions. To 'become effective, the regulations 

 generally mu^t be approved unanimously. 



The Convention on Fishing and Conserva- 

 tion of the Living Resources of the High Seas 

 attempts to overcome some of the difficulties 

 that stem from this requirement of unanim- 

 ity. It forces consideration of the need for 

 conservation of a fish stock if insisted upon 

 by { 1 ) a nation participating in the fishery, 



