Excerpt from International Fisheries: Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate; One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, July 21, 1994 Some u.s. Interests still resist accession to nafo in the hope that they can fish on nafo stocks without restriction. Amendment 5 to the Northeast Multispecies Plan has imposed effort limitations on our fishermen in our waters, but we cannot expect that the international community simply will accept a move by u.s. Vessels to transfer fishing effort to nafo waters to fish on stocks of even greater conserva tion concern. Other countries grow increasingly impatient when our vessels fish on stocks they are sacrificing to conserve. The bottom line is that if u.s. Vessels are to participate in this fishery it is incumbent u n our government to join the rel evant international conservation organization. We can not argue for conservation and responsible fishing in one place and deny it in another. The House of Represent atives has already adopted implementing legislation for nafo contained in hr. 3188. A review of the status of u.s. Participation in nafo follows. On May 3, 1979, the President transmitted the nafo Convention to the Senate, which gave its ad vice and consent to ratification on July 27, 1983. The United States has not yet de posited its instrument of accession because no implementing legislation has been adopted to require u.s. Fishermen and vessels to comply with the Convention. Thus we are in the unusual position where the Senate approved a treaty more than 10 years ago but we remain outside of it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.