g. to prescribe, at all seasons of the year, the size of the meshes in all salmon fishing gear and appliances 

 that may be operated on the described high seas, but these requirements shall apply only to nationals 

 and inhabitants and vessels and boats of the United States and Canada?^^ 



h. to regulate the fishery with a view to allowing, as nearly as practicable, an equal portion ofsockeye 

 salmon as may be caught each year and an equal portion of pink salmon as may be caught each year to 

 be taken by the fishermen of each Party. ^ ^ * 



All Commission regulations are subject to approval of the two governments except orders for the 

 adjustment of closing or opening of fishing periods and areas in any fishing season and of emergency 

 orders required to carry out the Convention provisions.^ ^ ^ 



3. Budget 



Each Party undertakes to pay the salaries and expenses of its own Commissioners and to share equally 

 the joint expenses incurred by the Commission.^ ^-^ 



In fiscal year 1969, the United States will contribute $377,000 to the work of the Commission.^ ^^ 



4. Enforcement 



The Parties agree to enact and enforce such legislation as may be necessary to make effective the 

 provisions of the Convention and the Commission's orders and regulations, with appropriate penalties 

 for violations.^ ^ ' 



Each Party is made responsible for the enforcement of the orders and regulations adopted by the 

 Commission in the portion of its waters covered by the Convention. On the described high seas, except 

 as provided in Article IX, each Party is made responsible, in respect of its own nationals and inhabitants 

 and vessels and boats, for the enforcement of the Commission's orders and regulations.^ ^ * 



Under Article IX, every national or inhabitant, vessel or boat of the United States or Canada, that 

 engages in salmon fishing on the high seas covered by the Convention in violation of a Commission order 

 or regulation, may be seized and detained by the duly authorized officers of either Party, and when so^ 

 seized and detained, shall be deUvered by the officers, as soon as practicable, to an authorized official of 

 the country to which the offending person, vessel or boat belongs, at the nearest point to the place of 

 seizure, or elsewhere, as may be agreed upon with the competent authorities. The nation to which the 

 violating person, vessel or boat belongs, alone shall have jurisdiction to conduct prosecutions for 

 violations and to impose penalties therefor. 



5. Activities"' 



The Commission's initial task was to determine the cause of the decline of the sockeye runs to the 

 Eraser River. At one time, this species of salmon was so abundant that in 1913 it produced a pack of 



^^^Id., Art. VII. 

 ^^^Id., Art. VI. 

 ^'^W., Art. 11,111. 



The data in the text were supplied by National Council on Marine Resources and Engineering Development, the 



Department of State and the Department of the Interior. 

 ^^^Convention.Art. X. 

 ^^^Id, Art. VIII. 



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Unless otherwise indicated, the account of the Commission's activities is taken from Statement by United States 

 Senate Commerce Committee Staff, Treaties and other International Agreements .... supra note 53, at 237. 



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