International Pacific Halibut Commission International Pacific Halibut Commission The International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC) is an International Fisheries Organization, having Canada and the United States as its members, responsible for the management of stocks of Pacific halibut or "Hippoglossus stenolepis" within the Pacific waters of its member states. It was founded in 1923 by an international treaty. The original treaty has been revised three times (1953,1976,1979). The 1979 amendment clarified the role of the IPHC in the management of the fishery through the North Pacific Halibut Act of 1982. It has carried out many activities including the use of chartered commercial fishing vessels to
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