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The Cuamman. Our next witness is Mr. Milton E. Brooding, rep- 
resenting the National Canners Association, Washington, D.C. Mr. 
Brooding is chairman of the U.S. section of the International North 
Pacific Fisheries Commission. 
STATEMENT OF MILTON E. BROODING, REPRESENTING THE NA- 
TIONAL CANNERS ASSOCIATION, WASHINGTON, D.C., AND CHAIR- 
MAN OF THE U.S. SECTION OF THE INTERNATIONAL NORTH 
PACIFIC FISHERIES COMMISSION 
Mr. Brooprne. I appreciate the opportunity of testifying before 
your committee. My specific interest is in the fisheries of the great 
Northwest and Alaska. That is your backyard. It presents an in- 
creasingly important problem. 
I am director of industry relations for the California Packing 
Corp., with headquarters in San Francisco. 
I appear today as a representative of the National Canners Associa- 
tion, of which my firm isa member. The National Canners Associa- 
tion is a nonprofit trade association whose 650 members are located in 
48 of the 50 States as well as in the territories. Members of the asso- 
ciation pack over four-fifths of the entire national production of 
canned seafood. 
As you have stated also, I am chairman of the U.S. section of the 
International North Pacific Fisheries Commission. This Commis- 
sion is composed of the United States, Canada, and Japan, and has 
been engaged for 7 years in the promotion of conservation and maxi- 
mum sustained productivity of the fisheries of the great North Pacific 
Ocean. 
The Cuamman. I might say for your information that we have 
been successful in getting the Department of Interior to include in 
their supplemental budget a recommendation for a relative research 
program in the Gulf of Alaska, the two areas that we are now in, so 
that we can get there this season. The amount is $3,000,000 plus. 
The budget request will come before a subcommittee of the Appro- 
priations ; Committee. As far as I know, I am a member of that sub- 
committee. It is my expectation that we will keep it in the supple- 
mental bill, so that it ought to be available in the next 30 days for us. 
That will then encompass the whole area we think should be looked at 
and provide sufficient research so that if in 1963 there is any move 
to change our position in the North Pacific Treaty, we will have the 
benefit of this basic data. 
Mr. Broovrne. I am glad to pe that, Senator, because what is 
involved in that research program is consistent with the purposes 
of your act. As a matter of fact it is a forerunner of some of the 
things that I am sure the act contemplates establishing on a per- 
manent basis. 
The Cuairman. If the Japanese continue to tell us that we have 
not had enough research to prove some of our contentions, and we 
don’t have everything we can get in this field, we might be in the 
same position in 1963 that we have been in the past. 
Mr. Broopine. That is correct. I am very pleased to hear that. 
The Cuatrman. I might also say for your Commission that I spent 
some time with the Soviet Ambassador the other day, and I have 
