INVESTIGATION, UTILIZATION AND REGULATION OF THE HALIBUT IN SOUTHEASTERN BERING SEA

• Main Authors: Northern Pacific, Halibut Fishery, Henry A. Dunlop, F. Heward Bell, Richard J. Myhre, William H. Hardman, G. Morris Southward, William A. Bates, Harold E. Crowther, Martin K. Eriksen, Richard Nelson, William M. Sprules, Mattias Madsen
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1964
• Subjects: Bering Sea; Canada; Pacific
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.170.6578; http://www.iphc.washington.edu/halcom/pubs/scirep/Report0035.pdf

Scientific investigations in Bering Sea were initiated in 1930 under the first halibut Convention. Although they were deferred by the economic depression of the 1930's and by World War II, they were resumed in 1947 and efforts to expand halibut fishing in the region were initiated at the same time. Both the investigations and the fishery have been further extended under the present 1953 Convention between the United States and Canada for the Preservation of the Halibut Fishery of the Northern Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea, which requires that the Pacific halibut stocks be developed to those levels which will permit maximum sustainable yield and that they be maintained at those levels. The present report reviews the pertinent facts regarding the halibut, the fishery and the management and utilization of the resource in the region. Some of these facts have been provided the governments of Canada and the United States from time to time and some have been published by the International North