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. Conducting
lengthy oceanic migrations, the salmon pass through coastal waters
of Alaska, British Columbia, and the northwest United States,
completing their last journeys to their rivers of origin where they
spawn and die. In dense homeward aggregations, they form lucrative
targets for Canadian and United States fishermen who compete
vigorously as the migrations pass southeastward. Beginning late in
the 19th 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. 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.
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