WASHINGTON NEWS LETTER
By MARY LEE COUNCIL
Secretary to E. L. (Bob) Bartlett, Alaska's Delegate to Congress
North Pacific . in the Bristol Bay area, and be
Fisheries Convention
The North Pacific Fisheries
Convention was ratified by the
Senate in the closing days of the
82nd Congress and sets forth the
“ground rules” in the language of
Senator Magnuson of Washington
for partcipation of the United
States, Canada and Japan in the
'North Pacific fisheries outside
territorial waters.
“The ratification of the treaty
with Japan,” the Washington
Senator declared, “has resulted in
a sincere willingness on the part
of the Japanese people to work
out these problems now, so that
in the future we shall have a re
lationship free from the possibil
ity of occurrences such as those
which took place prior to World
War II, which occurrences, I may
add, most of the Japanese people,
I think, now realize to have been
among the worst mistakes of their
entire history.”
In unanimously endorsing the
convention, the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee set forth in
its report the background of
events which led up to its sign
ing, the convention providing that
the Japanese will abstain from
fishing for salmon, herring and
halibut in areas where United
States and Canadian fishermen
now fully fish existing stocks and
where adequate conservation
measures are under way and
creating an International North
Pacific Fisheries Commission to
engage in research and to recom
mend to the United States. Can-1
cause of rising protests on the
part of American fishing interests,
the United States government ad
dressed a statement to Japan on
the matter. After reviewing the
facts, the statement concluded
that it must be taken as a sound
principle of justice that an indus
try such as the fishing industry
which has been built up by the
nationals of one country cannot
in fairness be left to be destroyed
by the nationals of other coun
tries. Despite the subsequent
withdrawal of Japanese salmon
fishing vessels from the Bristol
Bay area, the presence of Japan
ese vessels taking other types ol
fish from these areas continued
to arouse suspicion and mistrust
on the part of the people of the
Pacific Coast.
“After World War II, fishing
and other interested groups on
the west coast sought the inclu
sion in the Japanese Peace Treaty
of a provision which would close
the eastern part of the North
Pacific Ocean to Japanese fishing
fleets. Authorities of the United
States government were concern
ed, however, that such a blanket
provision might adversely affect
the total interests of the United
States. It would run counter to
the doctrine of the freedom of the
seas and might be used as prece
dent for limiting American fishing
interests in such areas as those
off the west coast of Latin Ameri
ca, the banks fisheries off Nova
Scotia, and elsewhere. Moreover,
aaa ana japan sucn measures as
would conserve the fishery re
sources of the North Pacific.
“For the past 30 years,” the
Senate report stated, “the govern
ments of the United States and
Canada have exercised varying;
degrees of control over their na-j
tionals who have fished in the!
North Pacific Ocean. These con-;
trols have been designed to pre-j
serve fish stocks and to insure a
regular and reliable crop of fish
in the future. About 1930, Japan
ese fishing vessels began fishing
the Bristol Bay area of western
Alaska, first for crabs and then
for salmon. Although this fishing
took place on the high seas it was
clear that salmon yields in the
Eastern Pacific area were direct
ly related to conservation mea
sures imposed by the Canadian
and American governments on
their own nationals. In the case
of the United States, for the
period from 1927 to 1937, the
average annual sum spent on con
servation measures by the Ameri
can government was $358,000.
“In 1937, as the result of in
creased Japanese salmon fishing
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Two truck drivers were rushed
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| as a practical matter Japan need
j ed to have resources available to
her because of her dependence on
; the sea for much of her food sup
ply
“As a result of these conflict
ing interests, the treaty of peace
with Japan contained only a brief
reference to fisheries, stating
j merely that Japan would enter
i into negotiations with the Allied
I powers so desiring, looking to
| ward the regulation and conser
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