International Convention for the High Seas Fisheries of the North Pacific Ocean

2013 ◽  
pp. 124-134
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
North Pacific ◽  
North Pacific Ocean ◽  
International Convention ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Pacific ◽  
High Seas

Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law

1992 ◽  
Vol 86 (4) ◽  
pp. 792-810
Author(s):  
Marian Nash
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
North Pacific ◽  
Marine Mammals ◽  
Pacific Salmon ◽  
North Pacific Ocean ◽  
The United States ◽  
Anadromous Fish ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Pacific ◽  
High Seas

On May 19, 1992, President George Bush transmitted to the Senate for advice and consent to ratification the Convention for the Conservation of Anadromous Stocks in the North Pacific Ocean, with Annex, signed at Moscow on February 11, 1992. An accompanying report by Secretary of State James A. Baker III, dated May 14, 1992, stated, in major part: The Convention has as its centerpiece a prohibition on high seas fishing for Pacific salmon, which will protect valuable migrating U.S.-origin salmonids. It also establishes a new international organization to promote the conservation of anadromous stocks (primarily Pacific salmon) throughout their migratory range in the high seas area of the North Pacific Ocean and its adjacent seas, as well as ecologically related species that interact with these resources, including various marine mammals, seabirds, and non-anadromous fish species. The new organization, which is to be known as the North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission, will also serve as a needed venue for consultation and coordination of high seas fishery enforcement activities by the contracting parties.

Population-specific aggregations of steelhead trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in the North Pacific Ocean

1997 ◽  
Vol 54 (10) ◽  
pp. 2368-2376 ◽  
Author(s):  
S McKinnell ◽  
J J Pella ◽  
M L Dahlberg
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Oncorhynchus Mykiss ◽  
North Pacific ◽  
North Pacific Ocean ◽  
Puget Sound ◽  
Steelhead Trout ◽  
The North ◽  
Georgia Basin ◽  
The North Pacific ◽  
High Seas

The distribution of North American hatchery-origin steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in the North Pacific Ocean varied by age and hatchery location. Columbia River steelhead were more abundant south of the Aleutian Islands at an earlier age than steelhead from the Georgia Basin (Georgia Strait, Puget Sound, and waters connecting with the open Pacific). Between 1984 and 1989, there were eight independent and coincident recoveries of coded-wire-tagged steelhead, where individuals released from hatcheries as juveniles at similar times and locations were recovered together on the high seas up to 3 years later. A statistical test was developed to determine whether these coincident recoveries should be expected if individual steelhead within populations travelled in the North Pacific in an uncoordinated manner. The overall test suggested that some tagged steelhead populations travelled together in a significantly (P < 0.05) coordinated manner on the high seas.

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