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... catch last year , the highest catch in history , and one which compares very favorably with the 44 - million - pound level which ob- tained 20 years ago when the International Halibut Commission first began to put in practice the ...
... catch last year , the highest catch in history , and one which compares very favorably with the 44 - million - pound level which ob- tained 20 years ago when the International Halibut Commission first began to put in practice the ...
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... catch of lake trout was , in 1935 , 1,743,000 pounds ; in 1941 , it had dropped by one - half to 842,000 pounds ; in 1951 it was less than 50 pounds . In Lake Michigan , United States fishermen in 1943 caught 6,800,000 pounds of lake ...
... catch of lake trout was , in 1935 , 1,743,000 pounds ; in 1941 , it had dropped by one - half to 842,000 pounds ; in 1951 it was less than 50 pounds . In Lake Michigan , United States fishermen in 1943 caught 6,800,000 pounds of lake ...
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... catch in the Great Lakes has during the past 50 years remained relatively stable in poundage . But radical changes have occurred in the composition of the catch . At times the more valuable species have diminished to be replaced with ...
... catch in the Great Lakes has during the past 50 years remained relatively stable in poundage . But radical changes have occurred in the composition of the catch . At times the more valuable species have diminished to be replaced with ...
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... catch from Lake Superior will decline to a negligible amount as it already has declined in Lakes Huron and Michigan while , if the lamprey is controlled , the catches in these three lakes can be restored to approximately their ...
... catch from Lake Superior will decline to a negligible amount as it already has declined in Lakes Huron and Michigan while , if the lamprey is controlled , the catches in these three lakes can be restored to approximately their ...
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... catch in Lake Huron , or the 3,000 pound catch in Lake Michigan . Congress has already recognized this serious problem , and since 1949 it has granted the Fish and Wildlife Service $ 1.3 million for the investigation of the lamprey ...
... catch in Lake Huron , or the 3,000 pound catch in Lake Michigan . Congress has already recognized this serious problem , and since 1949 it has granted the Fish and Wildlife Service $ 1.3 million for the investigation of the lamprey ...
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Page 54 - ARTICLE I This Convention shall apply to Lake Ontario (including the St. Lawrence River from Lake Ontario to the forty-fifth parallel of latitude), Lake Erie, Lake Huron (including Lake St. Clair), Lake Michigan, Lake Superior and their connecting waters, hereinafter referred to as "the Convention Area". This Convention shall also apply to the tributaries of each of the above waters to the extent necessary to investigate any stock of fish of common concern, the taking or habitat of which is confined...
Page 2 - THE PRESIDENT, The White House: The undersigned, the Secretary of State, has the honor to lay before the President, with a view to its transmission to the Senate to receive the advice and consent of that body to ratification, if his judgment approve thereof, a...
Page 1 - To the Senate of the United States: With a view to receiving the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification...
Page 4 - Commissioner from that Government. Decisions of the Commission shall be taken by a two-thirds majority of the votes of all the Contracting Governments. 8. The Commission shall adopt, and amend as occasion may require, financial regulations and rules and by-laws for the conduct of its meetings and for the exercise of its functions and duties.
Page 6 - Convention, as well as scientific, statistical, and other data relating to the fisheries maintained by the nationals of the High Contracting Parties for the fishes covered by this Convention.
Page 55 - ... Commission through contributions made by the Contracting Parties in the form and proportion recommended by the Commission and approved by the Contracting Parties. 12. An annual budget of joint expenses shall be recommended by the Commission and submitted to the Contracting Parties for approval. 13. The Commission shall authorize the disbursement of funds for the joint expenses of the Commission and may employ personnel and acquire facilities necessary for the performance of its functions.
Page 5 - Commission shall have the following duties : (a) to formulate a research program or programs designed to determine the need for measures to make possible the maximum sustained productivity of any stock of fish in the Convention Area which, in the opinion of the Commission, is of common concern to the fisheries of the United States of America and Canada and to determine what measures are best adapted for such purpose ; b) to coordinate research made pursuant to such programs and, if necessary, to...
Page 54 - Being concerned over the serious damage to some of these fisheries caused by the parasitic sea lamprey and the continuing threat which this lamprey constitutes for other fisheries, Recognizing that joint and coordinated efforts by the United States of America and Canada are essential in order to determine the need for and the type of measures which will make possible the maximum sustained productivity in Great Lakes...
Page 30 - ... administration. In the event, however, the Commission fails within a reasonable period of time to recommend unanimously such line or lines, it is agreed that the matter shall be referred to a special committee of scientists consisting of three competent and disinterested persons, no one of whom shall be a national of a Contracting Party, selected by mutual agreement of all Parties for the determination of this matter.
Page 6 - It shall remain in force for ten years and shall continue in force thereafter until terminated as provided herein. 3. Either Party may, by giving one year's written notice to the other Party, terminate the present Treaty at the end of the initial ten-year period or at any time thereafter. IN WITNESS WHEREOF the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Treaty and have affixed hereunto their seals.