North Pacific Fur Seal Treaty: Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session, on Treaty Doc. 99-5 ... June 13, 1985 |
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Page 61 - Article 10 1. This Convention shall be open to signature by the member States of the Council of Europe. It shall be subject to ratification or acceptance. Instruments of ratification or acceptance shall be deposited with the Secretary General of the Council of Europe.
Page 61 - XI. 5. The original of this Convention shall be deposited with the Government of the United States of America, which shall communicate certified copies thereof to each of the Governments signatory to the Convention.
Page 268 - This one, at last, is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one shall be called 'woman,' for out of 'her man
Page 408 - Repair of the building is essential to the conduct of activities of the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, and other Interior agencies.
Page 49 - Convention, and in conformity with their national laws, the Governments will take appropriate measures to prohibit the disposal at sea in the Convention areas of synthetic materials, such as fishing nets, or parts thereof, fishing gear, ropes, packing bands, and other debris which might lead to the entanglement of fur seals, in accordance with the provisions of the Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter, of December 29...
Page 364 - Seal (Callorhinus ursinus) a threatened species. This petition is based in large part on information supplied by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to The HSUS in response to its February 16, 1983, Freedom of Information Act Request and by letter of March 25, 1983, from CW Fowler, NMFS, to JW Grandy, HSUS. Additional information was obtained from the 1983 draft Environmental Impact Statement (hereinafter "1983 DEIS") on the Interim Convention on the Conservation of North Pacific Fur Seals....
Page 140 - Desiring to take effective measures towards achieving the maximum sustainable productivity of the fur seal resources of the North Pacific Ocean so that the fur seal populations can be brought to and maintained at the levels which will provide the greatest harvest year after year, with due regard to their relation to the productivity of other living marine resources of the area.
Page 366 - Seals are carried out pursuant to the provisions of the Interim Convention on the Conservation of North Pacific Fur Seals (hereinafter "Convention" or "Treaty") first signed in 19S7, and since extended and "amended" by Protocols in 1964, 1969, 1976, and 1980.
Page 318 - Ocean to determine : (a) what measures may be necessary to make possible the maximum sustainable productivity of the fur seal resources so that the fur seal populations can be brought to and maintained at the levels which will provide the greatest harvest year after year...
Page 58 - To the Senate of the United States : With a view to receiving the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification, I transmit herewith...