For thousands of years, Pacific salmon have been the focus for the economic and social development of societies, both ancient and modern, around the rim of the North Pacific Ocean. After lengthy oceanic migrations, the salmon pass through coastal waters of Alaska, British Columbia, and the northwest United States in a final journey to spawn, where they form lucrative targets for Canadian and US fishermen.
Beginning late in the nineteenth century and culminating in the 1985 Pacific Salmon Treaty, Canada and the United States carried out long and contentious negotiations to provide a framework for cooperation for conserving and sharing the vitally important Pacific salmon resource. The 1985 Pacific Salmon Treaty traces the history of the tumultuous negotiations, providing an insider?s perspective on the many complex issues that were addressed. It concludes with a brief assessment of the treaty?s performance under the difficult economic and environmental circumstances that have prevailed in the fishery since 1985.
This incisive work, with its unique historical perspective, will be of great interest to the Canadian and United States fishing communities affected by the treaty, to the general public, politicians, and fisheries specialists in both countries concerned with stewardship of natural resources, and to scholars of international law and regional history.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 343/.07692
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 0774811412 9780774851619
- LCCN
- SH349
- LCCN Item number
- S548 2005eb
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- CaBNVSL
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- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xvi, 288 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)gtp00521130 (OCoLC)166335039 (CaOOCEL)404016
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Title proper/short title
- Nineteen eighty-five Pacific Salmon Treaty
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- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- The 1985 Pacific Salmon Treaty 1
- M.P. Shepard and A.W. Argue 3
- The 1985 Pacific Salmon Treaty Sharing Conservation Burdens and Benefits 3
- Contents 5
- Figures and Tables 11
- Acknowledgments 15
- Salmon Migrations Fisheries and Problems 17
- The Opening Stanzas 1890s to 1960s 30
- The Global Context 54
- Comprehensive Bilateral Negotiations 1960-85 69
- The 1985 Treaty in Detail 93
- Article II Institutional Arrangements 104
- Principles of the Treaty Article III and the Memorandum of Understanding 110
- Fraser River Sockeye and Pinks 136
- Northern British Columbia Southeastern Alaska Net Fisheries 155
- Transboundary Rivers 165
- Chinook Salmon 189
- Coho Salmon 201
- Southern British Columbia and Washington State Chum Salmon 209
- Concluding Observations 212
- Appendices 235
- Appendix A The Lynnwood Accord October 1980 237
- Appendix B Framework Agreement between Canada and the United States of America for the Management of Pacific Salmon June 1982 246
- Appendix C Selected Material from the 1983 Draft Treaty between the Government of Canada and the Government of the United States of America Concerning Pacific Salmon March 1983 253
- Appendix D Treaty between the Government of Canada and the Government of the United States of America Concerning Pacific Salmon March 1985 262
- Notes 278
- Literature Cited 293
- Index 297
