. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. 38 COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW Vol. 16, No. 12 before the Conference for the creation of a joint whaling fleet by the three countries and for the establishment of a joint tribunal to try infractions of the 200-mile mari- time zone. The same newspaper also reported that the Onassis whaling fleet had been located near Pearl Island. It reported that Peru had rejected the request made by Onassis through the Panamanian Government for permission to undertake whaling operations in the 200-mile zone off the Peruvian coast, offering to pay 40 percen
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. 38 COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW Vol. 16, No. 12 before the Conference for the creation of a joint whaling fleet by the three countries and for the establishment of a joint tribunal to try infractions of the 200-mile mari- time zone. The same newspaper also reported that the Onassis whaling fleet had been located near Pearl Island. It reported that Peru had rejected the request made by Onassis through the Panamanian Government for permission to undertake whaling operations in the 200-mile zone off the Peruvian coast, offering to pay 40 percent of any profits derived from the operations. According to La Nacion the Peruvian Govern- ment replied that there would be no discussions of the subject until the Government of Panama recognized Peruvian sovereignty over the 200-mile zone. According to local press reports, the Foreign Minister in an interview granted the Associated Press on the eve of the Conference declared that the purpose of the meeting is to protect the ichthyological species, whose extinction is threatened by piratical enterprises. He added that the United Nations "cannot and should not inter- fere in this ; The parties to the Santiago Tripartite Declaration would at- tempt to prevent the General Assembly from considering the subject at the session, above all because these problems are to be considered in 1955 by a special inter- American conference. FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION TWENTIETH SESSION FAO COUNCIL: The principal decisions having some effect on fisheries reached at the Twentieth Session of the FAO Council in Ronae, Italy, early in October, were as follows, according to a U. S. Embassy dispatch (October 13) from Rome. World Food and Agricultural Situation: 1 .Adopted statement generally agreeing with Director General's assessment, emphasizing in spite of "surpluses, " need to con- tinue agricultural production in underdeveloped areas to exceed rate of population, to
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