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Excerpt from Fish and Wildlife Miscellaneous, Vol. 1: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries House of Representatives Ninety-Third Congress First Session on Tuna Oversight May 16, 1973 The subcommittee is opening the first of what may have to become a series of hearings on the question of commercial fishing vessels operat ing outside the bounds of existing conservation treaties. The case in point today involves a us. Company which purchased a boat built in the United States, which operates with a us. Crew, but ies under a Dutch flag and which has allegedly been fishing for tuna in a man ner which is specifically and strictly forbidden by the inter-american Tropical Tuna Convention to which this country is a party, and by which we are therefore bound. 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.