addition, the United States spends money on 

 research of interest to fishery commissions which 

 do not have their own scientific staffs. Thus, it is 

 estimated that in fiscal 1969, the United States 

 will spend $850,000 for purposes of ICNAF; 

 $1,500,000 for purposes of INPFC; $260,000 for 

 purposes of the Fur Seals Convention; and 

 $65,000 for purposes of the Whaling Convention. 



Including these latter expenditures of 

 $2,675,000, the total expenditures of the United 

 States for purposes of the fishery conventions to 

 which it adheres will amount to $4,739,000. 



Table 2^ ' sets forth the contributions of the 

 United States for fiscal 1969 to other international 

 organizations for marine programs, totaling 

 $4,869,071. These international organizations will 

 spend a total of approximately $14 million for 

 marine programs in fiscal 1969. Not all of this, of 

 course, will be spent on fisheries. However calcu- 

 lated, it is likely that the total sums spent on 

 fisheries by all the listed international organiza- 

 tions, including the fishery conventions to which 



the United States is, and those to which it is not, a 

 party, will amount to no more than a small 

 fraction of one percent of the $10 bilhon which 

 we estimate was the value of the total catch from 

 the world's fisheries in 1968. 



The severe budgetary limits under which some 

 of the fishery commissions operate reflect the 

 deliberate choice of their member governments to 

 rely on their own fishery research agencies and not 

 to supply the Commissions with full-time scien- 

 tific, technical and economic staffs to accomplish 

 their objectives. While impressive scientific work 

 has been accomplished in this manner, there is 

 always the danger that scientific opinion may tend 

 to serve, or be suspected of serving, national 

 interests on issues of great moment. We have 

 pointed out, for example, that the Japanese 

 disagree, on scientific grounds, that the abstention 

 doctrine should be applied to salmon in the North 



'Ibid. 



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