. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. natory powers were Russia, Japan, Canada, and the United States. The result is that un- der the management and protection given through the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, the Pribilof Islands seal herd has stabilized at about million animals, about ten times the number there when the convention was signed. The herd produced a $ million harvest last year. It was in 1923 that the first of a series of international conventions on fish was signed. That year the United States and Canada form- ed the International Convention for the Con-
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. natory powers were Russia, Japan, Canada, and the United States. The result is that un- der the management and protection given through the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, the Pribilof Islands seal herd has stabilized at about million animals, about ten times the number there when the convention was signed. The herd produced a $ million harvest last year. It was in 1923 that the first of a series of international conventions on fish was signed. That year the United States and Canada form- ed the International Convention for the Con- servation of Pacific Halibut. As a result, the annual harvest has almost doubled and the yield is sustained year after year. The famous Eraser River sockeye salmon fishery was converted from a dwindling re- source to an enlarged and sustained one by the agreement between the United States and Canada. formation on sea lamprey control developed by the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries sci- entists, are about to emerge victorious from the long fight to rid the Great Lakes of the predatory sea lamprey. Other international conventions are also showing results in the effort to provide management and sustained yields of designated fish stock. There are many milestones in the 90-year history. Bureau biologists investigating tuna re- sources in the Pacific some 10 years ago discovered what is now called the Cromwell Current (after the oceanographer who found it) deep in the Pacific Ocean. This great. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States. National Marine Fisheries Service; U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service; United States. Bureau of Commericial Fisheries. [Washington] : National Marine Fisheries Service; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt. Print. Off. ]
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