July 1966 



COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 



57 



International 



EUROPE 



GROUNDFISH SHORTAGES CAUSING 

 PROBLEMS FOR SOME PROCESSORS: 



Excess processing capacity developed in 

 the Danish and Norwegian fishing industries 

 even though landings were maintained at a 

 good level in 1965. Processing facilities 

 have expanded with the growing demand for 

 groundfish fillets and other fishery products. 

 Now local fishermen, mainly dependent on 

 coastal fishing grounds, are not always able 

 to deliver enough supplies to fully utilize 

 processing capacity. As a result, Danish and 

 Norwegian processors have pressed for lib- 

 eralization of fresh fish imports and direct 

 foreign landings for processing. This might 

 be a short-term solution. But the Scandina- 

 vians face competition from processors in 

 other countries. For example, the United 

 Kingdom receives substantial foreign land- 

 ings, and depends on them to supplement do- 

 mestic landings. 



The downward trend in the catch -per- 

 unit -of -effort in the main Northeast Atlantic 

 fishing areas will add to' the difficulties of 

 countries dependent on coastal and medium- 

 range fisheries. 



INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION FOR THE 

 CONSERVATION OF ATLANTIC TUNAS 



CONFERENCE OF PLENIPOTENTIARIES 



DRAFTS CONVENTION: 



An International Convention for the Con- 

 servation of Atlantic Tunas was agreed on by 

 17 nations in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on May 

 15, 1966. The Convention was drafted at a 

 two-week Conference of Plenipotentiaries 

 sponsored by the Food and Agriculture Or- 

 ganization of the United Nations (FAO). Del- 

 egations attended from Argentina, Brazil, 

 Canada, Cuba, Democratic Republic of Congo, 

 France, Japan, Portugal, Republic of Korea, 

 Republic of South Africa, Senegal, Spain, the 



Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United 

 Kingdom, Uruguay, Venezuela, and the United 

 States. Observers were present from the 

 Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, and Poland. 



The Chainnan's table during a session of the Main Committee of 

 the Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Conservation of At- 

 lantic Tunas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 2-14, 1966. Left to 

 right: J. E. Carroz and A. Roche, FAO Legal Advisers; J. Z. 

 McHugh, Chairman; Horatio Rosa, Jr. , Executive Secretary of 

 the Conference; A Miyares del VaUe, FAO Technical Assistant. 



The United States Delegation was headed 

 by Dr. J. L. McHugh, Assistant Director for 

 Biological Research, Bureau of Commercial 

 Fisheries, Department of the Interior. The 

 other Department of Interior members were 

 William M. Terry, Assistant Director for 

 International Relations, Bureau of Commer- 

 cial Fisheries; and Albert H. Swartz, Assis- 

 tant Chief, Division of Fishery Biology, Bu- 

 reau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife. De- 

 partment of State members were Burdick H. 

 Brittin, Deputy Special Assistant for Fisher- 

 ies and Wildlife to the Under Secretary for 

 Economic Affairs; William L. Sullivan, Jr., 

 Foreign Affairs Officer; Raymund T. Ying- 

 ling. Assistant Legal Adviser; and Richard S. 

 Croker, United States Fisheries Attache, 

 Mexico City. Commercial and sport fishing 

 interests were represented by Dr. W. M. 

 Chapman, Van Camp Sea Food Company; 

 Charles M. Carry, Tuna Research Foundation; 

 John J. Supple, Bumble Bee Packing Company; 

 and Richard H. Stroud, Executive Vice Pres- 

 ident, Sport Fishing Institute. 



Development of a draft Convention began 

 in Rome, Italy, in October 1963 when FAO 

 convened a Working Party for Rational Utili- 

 zation of Tunas in the Atlantic. The Working 



