according to the number of panels on which it is represented."" The Commission also has an annual 

 special projects budget which is allocated to the States Parties according to a scale determined by 

 agreement among them.'" 



In fiscal year 1969, the United States will contribute $7,000 to ICNAF, which is 7 percent of its total 

 estimated expenditures of $100,000. This amount does not include the expenses of the United States 

 Commissioners which are not segregated by Convention. For fiscal year 1969, the expenses incurred by 

 all United States Commissioners serving on aU fishing Conventions to which the United States is a Party 

 are expected to total $8,000. 



In addition, the United States spent approximately $850,000 on research (in United States research 

 institutions) for ICNAF purposes.' * 



4. Enforcement 



The states parties agree "to take such action as may be necessary to make effective the provisions of 

 this Convention and to implement any proposals" which all the interested States have accepted.' ^ No 

 other enforcement machinery is provided. 



5. Activities'^ 



The Commission collects, analyzes, and pubUshes data on the fish, fish landings and fishing activity. It 

 organizes scientific symposia and encourages cooperative fisheries research. 



The principal conservation measure adopted to date is the regulation of mesh size to allow fish to 

 escape in the sizes and quantities recommended by Commission scientists. By 1967, mesh size 

 regulations were enforced for cod and haddock in sub-areas 3 (4-inch), 4 and 5 (4H-inch), and proposed 

 for all groundfish species in sub-areas 1 (5-inch), 2 and 3 (4i4-inch), excluding redfish in a certain part of 

 the area, and for cod, haddock and flounders in sub-area 4 (4'/d-inch). 



More detailed information on ICNAF's work and problems are presented in the text of our Report. 



C. International Convention on the High Seas Fisheries of the North Pacific Ocean' "^ 



1. Objectives 



The purpose of this Convention (INPFC) is to encourage the conservation of the fishery resources of 

 the North Pacific Ocean, including the adjacent seas, in order to ensure their "sustained productivity."" 

 The States Parties to the Convention are Canada, Japan, and the United States. 



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Id., Art. XI (3). The following formula is specified: 



(a) from the administrative budget there shall be deducted a sum of 500 United States dollars for each contracting 

 Government; 



(bj the remainder shall be divided into such number of equal shares as corresponds to the total number of panel 

 memberships; 



(c) the payment due from any contracting government shall be the equivalent of 500 United States dollars plus the 

 number of shares equal to the number of panels in which that government participates. 



^°Id., Alt. XI (2) and (5). 



Information supplied by National Council on Marine Resouices and Engineeiing Development. 



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Convention, Art. XII. 



The following summary of ICNAF's activities is based upon Report of United Nations Secretary General, Marine 

 Science and Technology: Survey and Proposals, E/4487, Annex XII, 24 April, 1968, at 14, which, in turn, seems to be 

 based largely on Statement on ICNAF by U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Staff, Treaties and other International 

 Agreements, etc., 89th Cong., 1st Sess. 61-63 (1965). 



This Convention was signed at Tokyo, May 9, 1952; it entered into force for the United States, June 12, 1953. 4 

 U.S.T. 380, T.I.A.S. No. 2786, 205 U.N.T.S. 65. 



Convention, Preamble, Art. 1. 



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