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as the International Pacific Halibut Commission. This Commission 

 shall make such investigations as are necessary into the life history 

 of the halibut in the Convention waters and shall publish a report of 

 its activities and investigations from time to time. Each Contracting 

 Party shall have power to fill, and shall fill from time to time, 

 vacancies Avhich may occur in its representation on the Commission. 

 Each Contracting Party shall pay tlie salaries and expenses of its own 

 members. Joint expenses incurred by the Commission shall be paid 

 by the two Contracting Parties in equal moieties. All decisions of the 

 Commission shall be made by a concurring vote of at least two of the 

 Commissioners of each Contracting Party. 



2. The Contracting Parties agree that for the purpose of develop- 

 ing the stock of halibut of the Northern Pacific Ocean and Bering 

 Sea to levels which will permit the maximum sustained yield from 

 that fishery and for maintaining the stocks at those levels, the Inter- 

 national Pacific Halibut Commission, with the approval of the Presi- 

 dent of the United States of Am^erica and of the Governor General 

 in Council of Canada, may, after investigation has indicated such 

 action to be necessary, in respect of the nationals and inhabitants 

 and fishing vessels and boats of the United States of America and of 

 Canada, and in respect of halibut : 



( a ) divide the Convention waters into areas ; 



(b) establish one or more open or closed seasons, as to each 

 area ; 



(c) limit the size of the fish and the quantity of the catch to be 

 taken from each area within any season during which fishing is 

 allowed; 



(d) during both open and closed seasons, permit, limit, regu- 

 late or prohibit, the incidental catch of halibut that may be 

 taken, retained, possessed, or landed from each area or po-rtion of 

 an area, by vessels fishing for other species of fish ; 



(e) prohibit departure of vessels from any port or place, or 

 from Rnj receiving vessel or station, to any area for halibut fish- 

 ing, after any date when in the judgment of the International 

 Pacific Plalibut Commission the vessels which have departed for 

 that area prior to that date or which are kno\\'n to be fishing in 

 that area shall suffice to catch the limit which shall have been set 

 for that area under section (c) of this paragraph ; 



(f ) fix the size and character of halibut fishing appliances to 

 be used in any area ; 



(g) make such regulations for the licensing and departure of 

 vessels and for the collection of statistics of the catch of halibut 

 as it shall find necessary to determine the condition and trend of 

 the halibut fishery and to carry out the other provisions of this 

 Convention ; 



(h) close to all taking of halibut such portion or portions of an 

 area or areas as the International Pacific Halibut Commission 

 finds to be populated by small, immature halibut and designates 

 as nursery grounds. 



Article IV 



The Contracting Parties agree to enact and enforce such legislation 

 as may be necessary to make effective the provisions of this Convention 

 and any regulation adopted thereunder, wdth appropriate penalties 

 for violations thereof. 



