Halibut Treaty Halibut Treaty The Halibut Treaty was a 1923 Canadian–American agreement concerning fishing rights in the northern Pacific Ocean. The treaty established the International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC) as a mechanism for the joint management of the Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis) which, at that time, was in severe decline. The commission originally had four members but now has six, which are selected from industry and related government agencies. Half the members are Canadian and half are from the United States. The treaty also had a provision for a closed season, so halibut could not be fished during the more dangerous winter
The Heron and the Fish Fontaine" (2004), where it was choreographed by Satchie Noro and included among the four segments in the film version directed by Marie-Hélène Rebois. The Heron and the Fish The Heron and the Fish is a situational fable constructed to illustrate the moral that one should not be over-fastidious in making choices since, as the ancient proverb proposes, 'He that will not when he may, when he will he shall have nay'. The first occurrence of the fable about the fastidious heron occurs in a late Mediaeval manuscript of Latin prose fables called "Opusculum fabularum" (little collection of fables), which claims