Organization, Functions, and Achievements of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna CommissionThe Commission, 1975 - 58 pages |
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anchoveta bait baitfishes Baja California BAYLIFF biological bluefin CALKINS catch and effort catch of yellowfin caught central Pacific Cetengraulis mysticetus chairman closure date Commission staff's Commission's staff contracts and grants Convention Costa Rica CYRA director of investigations distribution eastern Pacific Ocean eastern tropical Pacific Ecuador English and Spanish fisheries for tunas fishery for yellowfin Gulf of Panama High Contracting Parties IATTC IATTC Bull incidental catch IZADORE BARRETT JAMES JOSEPH Katsuwonus pelamis kinds of fish Klawe logbook records maximum catch maximum sustainable yield maximum sustained catches meetings MILNER national section northern anchovy oceanographic oceanographic data oceanography and meteorology organizations Peru purse seiners purse-seine quota recommended regulation relationship Revillagigedo Islands SCHAEFER short tons skipjack tuna spawning special allocations species studies taken by tuna tion total catch trip tropical Pacific Ocean TROPICAL TUNA COMMISSION tunas and billfishes United vote WILLIAM H yellowfin and skipjack yellowfin tuna yield per recruitment
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Page 41 - At any time after the expiration of ten years from the date of entry into force of this Convention any High Contracting Party may give notice of its intention of denouncing the Convention.
Page 42 - Vice-Chairman and Secretary shall hold office for a period of one year. During succeeding years selection of...
Page 44 - When requested, translation shall be made to the other language. The minutes, official documents, and publications of the Commission shall be in both languages, but official correspondence of the Commission may be written, at the discretion of the secretary, in either language.
Page 41 - IN WITNESS WHEREOF the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Convention. DONE at Washington, in duplicate, in the English and Spanish languages, both texts being equally authentic, this 31st day of May, 1949.
Page 44 - Commission may decide upon and amend, as occasion may require, by-laws or rules for the conduct of its meetings. 5. The Commission shall meet at least once each year and at such other times as may be requested by a majority of the national sections.
Page 14 - Ocean which by reason of continued use have come to be of common concern, and desiring to cooperate in the gathering and interpretation of factual information to facilitate maintaining the populations of these fishes at a level which will permit maximum sustained catches year after year...
Page 41 - ... years from the date of entry into force of this Convention any High Contracting Party may give notice of its intention of denouncing the Convention. Such notification shall become effective with respect to such notifying government one year after its receipt by the Government of the United States of America. After the expiration of the said one year period the Convention shall be effective only with respect to the remaining High Contracting Parties. 5. The Government of the United States of America...
Page 37 - March 3, 1950 regarding the Convention between the United States of America and the Republic of Costa Rica for the Establishment of an Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, signed at Washington May 31, 1949...
Page 37 - ... to facilitate maintaining the populations of these fishes at a level which will permit maximum sustained catches year after year, have agreed to conclude a Convention for these purposes and to that end have named as their Plenipotentiaries : The President of the United States of America: James E. Webb, Acting Secretary of State Wilbert M. Chapman, Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State The President of the Government of Costa Rica: Mario A.
Page 38 - Commission's headquarters. 8. Each Contracting Party may establish an Advisory Committee for its national section, to be composed of persons who shall be well informed concerning North Pacific fishery problems of common concern. Each such Advisory Committee shall be invited to attend all sessions of the Commission except those which the Commission decides to be in camera. 9. The Commission may hold public hearings. Each national section may also hold public hearings within its own country.