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In the North Atlantic, for example, the area running roughly from 

 about the coast of Rhode Island up to the Davis Strait off the west 

 coast of Greenland, there are about 15 nations which fish and which 

 have fished for centuries. There is an international agreement which 

 has been in force there since 1951. The members are the United States 

 and Canada, and in Europe, Iceland, Denmark, Norway, the U.S.S.R, 

 Poland, West Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Spain, Portu- 

 gal, Italy, Rumania. They all fish in the area. They all are members of 

 this organization. 



They all do research. Their research is planned jointly by this 

 organization, the International Commission for the Northwest At- 

 lantic Fisheries. A research target, if you will, is established. The job 

 of reaching the target is parceled out among the 15 members of the 

 organization so we have a coordinated research operation. 



The results are all funneled back to the Commission. They become 

 available to all members, the world, for that matter, because the 

 information is all published. 



The same thing is true in the North Pacific where we are parties to 

 a trilateral agreement with Japan and Canada. We are parties to a 

 quadrilateral agreement with Japan and Canada and the U.S.S.R. 

 dealing with the resources of the North Pacific, resources which ap- 

 pear on U.S. -owned Pribilof lands and the islands under Soviet control 

 on the other side. 



We are parties to an agreement with Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, 

 and Ecuador, dealing with international American tropical tuna 

 resources in the eastern Pacific Ocean. We have signed and, I believe, 

 recently ratified, a convention dealing with the conservation of Atlantic 

 tuna. 



The convention has not entered into force. It was negotiated 2 years 

 ago. Eventually it probably will have, I suppose, 30, 35 members. 



The North Atlantic Commission and four or five other similar orga- 

 nizations all are involved in joint research by one means or another. 

 In some cases these international organizations have their own research 

 staffs which are supported by contributions from the governments. In 

 other cases, as in the North Atlantic, their function is essentially one 

 of planning and then coordinating research done by national research 

 agencies. In either case this is truly international research, the results 

 of which become available to all of the parties, and indeed to the world 

 at large. 



In addition, also in the fisher;^ field, we do a fair amount of what 

 I think has to be called international research not within the frame- 

 work of a formal international agreement, but informal cooperation in 

 international research. At the moment we are involved in a major 

 oceanographic investigation on the eastern Pacific ranging from 

 northern Chile to the United States-Canadian border with several 

 agencies in the United States, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Ecuador, all co- 

 operating in the ocean aspects of this investigation. The results of 

 this investigation will be made available to all of the cooperators and 

 to the rest of the world. 



I think this gives an idea, Mr. Chairman, of the kinds of things we 

 are already deeply involved in and have been involved in for many 

 years. 



Mr. Frelinghutsen. Do we have the same kind of cooperation in 

 the field of mineral research or oil that we have for fisheries? 



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