185. The International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC) reported to the Secretary General on 10 April 1998 that by catch of Pacific halibut in non target fisheries of the North Pacific constituted the second largest removal of the halibut population and had been monitored since the early 1960s.

Well, we don't want halibut.

We don't want anything to do with halibut, do we?

186. Over the past 10 years, IPHC had been at the forefront of efforts to reduce halibut by catch rates and improve the survival of discarded halibut by catch.

It had also assisted in refining by catch management by developing halibut discard mortality rates for individual non target groundfish fisheries, based on direct observations of halibut condition and tag recapture studies.

To reduce halibut by catch, it had developed management proposals based on incentives rather than penalties.

187. IPHC further indicated that concern over by catch by the two Contracting Parties had led to the formation of the Halibut By catch Work Group in 1991, to review and evaluate halibut by catch problems in each national zone.

Although IPHC had no direct management authority over by catch on those other non target fisheries, it had nonetheless worked closely with the halibut industry and agencies of the two Contracting Parties, namely Canada and the United States, in developing methods to reduce by catch and discards of halibut.

Pacific Islands Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Centre

American Samoa is a member of several regional organizations, including the South Pacific Commission, the Pacific Basin Development Council, the Pacific Tuna Development Foundation, the Pacific Islands Association, the Asian South Pacific Bureau of Adult Education, the Pacific Asia Travel Association, the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme and the Council of Pacific Arts.

Pacific

Pacific all what? The Pacific All Risk Insurance Company.

Asia Pacific

Pacific Ocean

Pacific Time

Southern Pacific.

These organizations include the Pacific Island Forum Security Conference, South Pacific Chief of Police Conference, and the Pacific Immigration Directors Conference.

America s Pacific Rebalance

Obama s Pacific Pivot

5. Pacific Ocean

4. The Pacific

II. Asia Pacific

5. Pacific Ocean

Pacific Coast Districts

Asia and the Pacific (Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific)

Next month the leaders of the Pacific Islands Forum will endorse a Pacific plan.

51. In this regard Leaders also noted with interest the presentation by Nauru on regional Sports Pacific Network. Pacific Islands Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Centre

Pacific settlement of disputes

That's the Pacific Gyre.

Obama Across the Pacific

Toward a Peaceful Pacific

Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation.

Pacific region, 1999 2002

Asian and Pacific States

Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat

Northwest Pacific Action Plan

Asia and the Pacific

Asia and the Pacific

Asia and the Pacific

THE PACIFIC, 2007 7

AND THE PACIFIC, 2007

Asia and the Pacific.

Asia and Pacific Division

Pacific Time north Yukon

Pacific Time south Yukon