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26 Gordon Munro, Extended Jurisdiction and Management of Pacific Highly Migratory Species, 21 OCEAN DEV. & INT’L L. 293 (1990). 27 See Hey, supra note 14, at 56-60; JOSÉ YTURRIAGA, THE INTERNATIONAL REGIME OF FISHERIES FROM UNCLOS 1982 TO THE PRESENTIAL SEA 124-30 (1997); GOVERNING HIGH SEAS FISHERIES, supra note 2. 28 Thus Professor Burke writes: “The HMS category is political, not biological. Other species move even greater distances than tuna or other species listed in the annexe” to the 1982 UNCLOS, “but are not found on the list.
S. Policy, the Pacific Tuna Economy, and Ocean Law Innovation 39 by rising demand in the consumer market, the result of changing dietary preferences and price advantages that made tuna an attractive table-food substitute for salmon and for beef products. The Southern California tuna fleets operated out of San Pedro and San Diego.
S. 22 And yet the United States was meanwhile developing a policy toward then-occupied Japan that would constrain the Japanese fleet from coming into the waters off Alaska and British Columbia coasts to fish North American salmon. Thus under pressure from Washington, Canada and Japan joined in incorporating the so-called “abstention principle” in the International North Pacific Fisheries Convention, signed in 1952. By terms of this agreement, Japanese fishing operators were excluded from the rich salmon fishery and also were barred from fishing other species in a huge area of the northeast Pacific Ocean.