Ex. Rept. 113-3 - Convention on the Conservation and Management of High Seas Fisheries Resources in the North Pacific Ocean (treaty Doc. 113-2), 2014-03-13

• Date: 13 March 2014
• Type of Document: Senate Executive Report
• Issuer: Committee on Foreign Relations

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CONVENTION ON THE CONSERVATION AND MANAGE-

MENT OF HIGH SEAS FISHERIES RESOURCES IN THE

NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN (TREATY DOC. 113–2)

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13, 2014.—Ordered to be printed

Mr. M

ENENDEZ

, from the Committee on Foreign Relations,

submitted the following

REPORT

[To accompany Treaty Doc. 113–2]

The Committee on Foreign Relations, to which was referred the

Convention on the Conservation and Management of High Seas

Fisheries Resources in the North Pacific Ocean (Treaty Doc. 113–

2) (the ‘‘Convention’’), done at Tokyo, Japan on February 24, 2012,

and signed by the United States on May 2, 2012, having considered

the same, reports favorably thereon with one declaration, as indi-

cated in the resolution of advice and consent, and recommends that

the Senate give its advice and consent to ratification thereof.

CONTENTS

Page

I. Purpose ...........................................................................................................1

II. Background ....................................................................................................2

III. Summary of Key Provisions of the Convention ...........................................2

IV. Implementing Legislation .............................................................................5

V. Committee Action ..........................................................................................5

VI. Committee Recommendation and Comments ..............................................5

VII. Text of Resolution of Advice and Consent to Ratification ..........................6

I. P

URPOSE

The Convention will establish the North Pacific Fisheries Com-

mission, which will adopt and implement conservation and man-

agement measures for unregulated fish stocks in the high seas of

the North Pacific Ocean, as well as a robust monitoring, control

and surveillance system. The Scientific Committee, a subsidiary of

the Commission, will also establish standards to determine wheth-

er bottom fishing activities are likely to produce significant adverse

effects on vulnerable marine ecosystems or species in the Conven-

tion Area.

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