COMMISSIONERS:.
Treaties between the United States and Canada created the Intern~tional Fisheries Commission to investigate the halibut fishery of the northern Pacific Ocean, including Bering Sea, and to take steps to preserve and restore this fishery. The present is the ninth report upon the scientific investigati...
| Other Authors: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Text |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.170.6710 http://www.iphc.washington.edu/halcom/pubs/scirep/Report0009.pdf |
| Summary: | Treaties between the United States and Canada created the Intern~tional Fisheries Commission to investigate the halibut fishery of the northern Pacific Ocean, including Bering Sea, and to take steps to preserve and restore this fishery. The present is the ninth report upon the scientific investigations of the Commission. Formerly there was a huge supply of halibut on the banks, and an abundance of spawners. Overfishing cut this down to a very serious point. This decline in the amount of fish on the banks has been fully dealt with irt previous reports of the Commission. There was not only a decline in the catch per unit of gear, but also in the total catch taken from the banks. The catch per unit of standard size fell from 272 pounds in 1906 to abOut 36 pounds in 1930 on the grounds off British Columbia. Off Southeastern Alaska the catch fell from 180 pounds per unit in 1914 to 54 pounds in 1928. In the Gulf of Alaska the fall was from 320 pounds per unit in 1915 to 65 pounds in 1930. The total quantity taken from the grounds south of Cape Spencer fell from 60 million pounds in 1912 to 22.% million pounds in 1930. |
|---|