A History of U.S. High Seas Salmon and Steelhead Stock Identification Research

摘要

This abstract provides a brief history of U.S. high seas salmon and steelhead stock identification research. Jackson and Royce (1986) and Harris (1989) reviewed the history of the Japanese high seas salmon driftnet fisheries and the international treaties that regulated them. After World War II, interceptions of Alaska salmon by Japan's rapidly expanding high seas salmon driftnet fisheries were a major concern to the U.S. salmon fishing industry. A Japanese mothership fleet operated in the Bering Sea and in the North Pacific Ocean (north of 46°N), and a landbased fleet operated south of 46°N in the North Pacific Ocean. In 1953 the International Convention for the High Seas Fisheries of the North Pacific Ocean established the International North Pacific Fisheries Commission (INPFC, 1953-1992), and set a provisional abstention line that restricted the Japanese fisheries to areas west of 175°W. The major goal of INPFC research was to determine the areas of intermingling of Asian and North American salmon in the North Pacific Ocean and adjacent seas.