Clarence G. Pautzke, executive director, of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council, has produced a study of the Rusian Far East that is exceptional and a first of its kind. Original is here.
International Pacific Halibut
Commission (IPHC)
North Pacific Anadromous Fish
Commission (NPAFC)
US-Russian Exchange of Notes on North
Pacific Salmon Fishing, 1992
Pacific Salmon Commission
(PSC)
Convention on the Conservation and
Management of Pollock Resources (CCMPR) in the Central Bering
Sea
International Whaling Commission
(IWC)
Code of Conduct For Responsible Fisheries Adopted by 28th session of
FAO Conference, Oct 31, 1995.
For more information on the question of straddling and highly migratory fish stocks, the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) also has some nice summaries and the full text of most of the documents produced by the conferences.
North Pacific Marine Science
Organization (PICES)
Asia-Pacific Fishery Commission
(APFIC)
U.S.-Canada Agreement on Fisheries
Enforcement
U.S.-Japan Consultative Committee
on Fisheries
U.S.-Russia Intergovernmental
Consultative Committee (ICC)
U.S.-China Marine and Fisheries
Science and Technology Protocol
U.S.-Korea Science and Technology
Agreement
Governing International Fishery
Agreements (GIFAs) [China, Russia]
These allow Chinese and Russian vessels to fish in US waters.
International Agreements Concerning Living Marine Resources of Interest to NOAA Fisheries
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conversation and Management Act Covers US rights and authority regarding fish and fishery resources, foreign fishing and international fishery agreements, national fishery management program, and fishery monitoring and research.
Table of US fisheries agreements
News Releases from the 17th US Coast Guard District The 17th District covers Alaska, and so the North Pacific and Bering Sea. The district issues press releases on vessels caught in illegal fishing.
The following links provided most of the information above.
TED Case Studies: Japan Driftnet Fishing, Jan. 11, 1997
Testimony on the US Fishing Act, S 1221. Jeff Hendricks, Alaska Ocean Seafood Limited March, 1998.
Paul MacGregor, At-Sea Processors Association
Fish Processing Industry organization
Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada Pacific branch
In addition to these, for news reports, please use the database. The subject code for fishing is UREG.
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