4. Enforcement 



The States Parties to the Convention agree to enact such legislation as may be necessary to carry out 

 the purposes of the Convention.' ' ' 



5. Activities 



The scientific work of the Commission's staff is generally regarded as competent and productive and 

 has led to an expansion of knowledge of the eastern tropical and sub-tropical Pacific' ^^ 



Fishing effort of yeOowfin tuna in the Eastern Pacific has come close to threatening the maximum 

 sustainable yield and has led the Commission during the past several years to recommend regulation of 

 such effort; skipjack tuna, however, will stand considerably greater yields than presently taken.' ^ ' Yet 

 it is difficult to catch one species without catching the other; the fishery operates generally upon both 

 and the economics of the industries are dependent upon the yield from both.' ^ ^ 



Beginning in 1962, the Commission recoimnended conservation measures (an overall catch quota for 

 yellowfin) to the States fishing the two species. Its recommendation was not accepted until 1966. 

 During 1966, 1967, and 1968, however, an overall catch quota was in force and observed by all States 

 fishing for yeUov/fin, whether Parties or not.' ^ ^ 



F. International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling'^'* 

 1. Objectives 



The Preamble to the Convention states that the Parties recognize that: 



a. the nations of the world are interested in safeguarding for future generations the natural resources 

 represented by whale stocks; 



b. the history of whaling is one of overfishing of one area after another and of one species after another 

 to such a degree that it is essential to protect all species from overfishing; 



c. the whale stocks are susceptible of natural increases if whaling is properly regulated; 



d. increases in the size of whale stocks will permit increases in the numbers of whales which may be 

 captured without endangering the resource; 



'"Convention, Ait. III. 



See Chapman, supra note 107, at 18. "By the end of 1966, the Commission had published and given worldwide 

 distribution to eighty-five scientific bulletins, more than 100 scientific papers and articles in outside journals and fifteen 

 annual reports." Report of the UN Secretary General, Marine Science and Technology: Survey and Proposals, E/ 4487, 

 April 24, 1968, Annex XII, at 20. 



'^'chapman, supra note 107, at 18-19. 



'"/Wd 



'^^Report of the UN Secretary General, supra note 120, at 20; Burke, Aspects of International Decision-Making 

 Processes in Intergovernmental Fishery Commissions, 43 Wash. L. Rev. 115, 151 (1967). See also Treaties and other 

 International Agreements etc., supra note 53, at 73-74. 



'^'*The Convention was signed at Washington, Dec. 2, 1946; it entered into force for the United States, November 

 10, 1948, T.I.A.S. No. 1849, 161 U.N.T.S. 72. It superseded the Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, signed at 

 Geneva, Sept. 24, 1931, entered into force for the United States Jan. 16, 1935, T.S. 880, IV Trenwith 5372, 155 

 L.N.T.S. 349; the International Agreement for the Regulation of Whaling signed in London on June 8, 1937, T.S. 933; 

 and the Protocols to that Agreement signed in London on June 24, 1938, T.S. 944 and Nov. 26, 1945, T.I.A.S. No. 

 1597. 



The Convention appUed to factory ships, land stations and whale catchers under the jurisdiction of the States Parties 

 operating anywhere in the world. A Protocol signed in Washington Nov. 19, 1956, entered into force for the 

 United States May 4, 1959, 10 U.S.T. 952, T.I.A.S. No. 4228, 338 U.N.T.S. 366, extended the application of the 

 Convention to helicopters and other aircraft used for the purpose of hunting, taking, killing, towing, holding on to, or 

 scouting for whales. 



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