Santiago Negotiations on Fishery Conservation Problems [among Chile, Ecuador, Peru and the United States, Santiago, Chile, September 14-October 5, 1955Department of State, 1955 - 70 pages |
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Page 69 - The character as high seas of the areas in which such conservation zones are established and the right to their free and unimpeded navigation are in no way thus affected.
Page 69 - States and nationals of other States, explicitly bounded conservation zones may be established under agreements between the United States and such other States; and all fishing activities In such zones shall be subject to regulation and control as provided in such agreements. The right of any State to establish conservation zones...
Page 69 - States regards it as proper to establish conservation zones in those areas of the high seas contiguous to the coasts of the United States wherein fishing activities have been or in the future may be developed and maintained on a substantial scale. Where such activities have been or shall hereafter be developed and maintained by its nationals alone, the United States regards it as proper to establish explicitly bounded conservation zones in which fishing activities shall be subject to the regulation...
Page 32 - This is, in short, the concept of biological unity from which is derived, in the scientific field, the preferential right of coastal countries. According to this concept, the human population of the coast forms part of the biological chain which originates in the adjoining sea, and which extends from the microscopic vegetable and animal life (fitoplankton and zooplankton) to the higher mammals, among which we count man. These "biomas...
Page 54 - States not involved in the dispute and specializing in legal, administrative or scientific questions relating to fisheries, depending upon the nature of the dispute to be settled. Any vacancy arising after the original appointment shall be filled in the same manner as provided for the initial selection.
Page 69 - In witness whereof, I, have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this twenty-eighth day of September, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventieth. HARRY S. TRUMAN. By the President : DEAN ACHESON, Acting Secretary of State.
Page 31 - Modern biologists and ecologists have called the sum of non-biotic factors, mainly climatological and hydrological, which are capable of creating a particular situation, that will permit an aggregate of vegetable and animal beings to live within it, an "ecosystem.
Page 30 - ... bioma' implanted in this region of the Pacific; and not merely the conservation of stocks of fish in which other countries may have a commercial interest. Regarding this we should like to note that, for some time now, neither the sea, nor the aggregate of living...
Page 32 - bioma" are proper to each region . . . and it is, therefore, a prime duty of every coastal State to insure that they are not destroyed in the only way that this is possible, which is by the depredations of man.
Page 46 - 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.