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Article I 



1. The nationals and inhabitants and fishing vessels and boats of 

 the United States of America and of Canada, respectively, are hereby 

 prohibited from fishing for halibut (Hippoglossus) in Convention 

 waters as herein defined, except as provided by the International 

 Pacific Halibut Commission in regulations designed to develop the 

 stocks of halibut in the Convention waters to those levels which will 

 permit the maximum sustained yield and to maintain the stocks at 

 those levels pursuant to Article III of this Convention. 



2. "Convention waters'' means the territorial waters and the high 

 seas off the western coasts of the United States of America and of 

 Canada, including the southern as well as the western coasts of Alaska. 



3. It is undei-stood that nothing contained in this Convention shall 

 prohibit the nationals or inhabitants or the fishing vessels or boats 

 of the United States of America or of Canada from fishing in the 

 Convention waters for other species of fish during any season when 

 fishing for halibut in the Convention waters is prohibited by this Con- 

 vention or any regulations adopted pursuant to this Convention. It 

 is further understood that nothing contained in this Convention shall 

 prohibit the International Pacific Halibut Commission from conduct- 

 ing or authorizing fishing operations for investigation purposes at any 

 time. 



Article II 



1. Every national or inhabitant, vessel or Ijoat of the United States 

 of America or of Canada engaged in fishing on the high seas in viola- 

 tion of this Convention or of any regulation adopted pursuant thereto 

 may be seized by duly authorized officers of either Contracting Party 

 and detained by the officers making such seizure and delivered as soon 

 as practicable to an authorized official of the country to which sucli 

 person, vessel or boat belongs, at the nearest point to the place of sei- 

 zure or elsewhere as may be agreed upon. The authorities of the coun- 

 tiy to which such person, vessel or boat belongs alone shall have 

 jurisdiction to conduct prosecutions for the violation of the provisions 

 of this Convention or any regulations which may be adopted in pur- 

 suance thereof and to impose penalties for such violation, and the 

 witnesses and proof necessaiy for such prosecutions, so far as any 

 witnesses or proofs are under the control of the other Contracting 

 Party, shall be furnished with all reasonable promptitude to the 

 authorities having jurisdiction to conduct the prosecutions. 



2. Each Contracting Party shall be responsible for the proper ob- 

 servance of this Convention and of any regulations adopted under 

 the provisions thereof in the portion of its waters covered thereby. 



Article III 



1. The Contracting Parties agree to continue under this Convention 

 the Commission known as the International Fisheries Commission es- 

 tablished bv the Convention for the preservation of the halibut fishery, 

 signed at Washington, March 2, 1923. continued by the Convention 

 signecl at OttaAva, May 9, 1930, and further continued by the Con- 

 vention, signed at Ottawa, January 29, 1937, except that after the 

 date of entry into force of this Convention it shall consist of six mem- 

 bers, three appointed by each Contracting Party, and shall be known 



