Commission is required, insofar as feasible, to utilize the technical and scientific services of official 

 agencies of the States Parties and may, when desirable and if available, utilize the services of any public 

 or private institution or organization or any private individual.** 



In fiscal year 1969, the United States will contribute $24,000 to the work of the Commission, which 

 will amount to a third of its estimated total expenditures of $72,000. In addition, the United States 

 spent $1.5 million on research (in U.S. research institutions) for purposes of INPFC.*' 



4. Enforcement 



To enforce the provisions of the Convention, the State Parties agree: 



a. With regard to a stock from the exploitation of which a State Party has agreed to abstain, the 

 nationals and fishing vessels of the abstaining State Party are prohibited from engaging in the 

 exploitation of the stock in the waters specified in the Annex, and from loading, processing, possessing 

 or transporting the fish in such waters. 



b. With regard to a stock of fish for which a State Party has agreed to continue to carry out 

 conservation measures, the nationals and fishing vessels of such State Party are prohibited from engaging 

 in fishing activities in water specified in the Annex in violation of regulations established under the 

 conservation measures. 



c. For the purpose of rendering effective the provisions of the Convention, each Party will enact and 

 enforce necessary laws and regulations with regard to its nationals and fishing vessels, with appropriate 

 penalties against violations thereof, and transmit to the Commission a report on any action taken by it 

 with regard thereto. 



d. When a fishing vessel of a State Party has been found in waters in which that Party has agreed to 

 abstain from exploitation, the duly authorized officials of any State Party may board the vessel to 

 inspect its equipment, books, documents and other articles and question the persons on board. 



e. When any such person or fishing vessel is actually engaged in operations in violation of the provisions 

 of the Convention, or there is reasonable ground to believe that it was obviously so engaged immediately 

 prior to boarding of the vessel by any such official, the latter may arrest or seize such person or vessel. In 

 that case the State Party to which the official belongs shall notify the State Party to which the offending 

 person or vessel belongs of the arrest or seizure, and shall deliver such vessel or person as promptly as 

 practicable to the authorized officials of the State Party to which the offending vessel or person belongs. 



f Only the authorities of the State Party to which the offending person or vessel belongs may try the 

 offense and impose penalities. 



g. With regard to the nationals or fishing vessels of one or more States Parties in waters with respect to 

 which they have agreed to continue to carry out conservation measures for certain stocks offish, the 

 States Parties concerned shall carry out enforcement severally or jointly and shall provide a report 

 periodically, through the Commission, to the abstaining Party on enforcement conditions and, if 

 requested, give it an opportunity for observation of the conduct of enforcement. ' " 



**M, Art. Ill (3). 



*' Information was supplied by the National CouncU on Marine Resources and Engineering Development, 

 "'"convention. Arts. IX, X. 



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