Herring and salmon
Herring and salmon: a case brought by the United States against Canada in 1987 concerning Canadian regulations prohibiting the export or sale for export of unprocessed herring and pink and sockeye salmon. The facts were that Canada had proclaimed a regulation under the authority of the Fisheries Act of 1970 that "no person shall export from Canada any sockeye or pink salmon unless it is canned, salted, smoked, dried or frozen and has been inspected in accordance with the Fish Inspection Act". A similar provision applied to the export from the Province of British Columbia of food herring, roe herring, herring roe or herring spawn. Canada had also maintained since the early decades of the twentieth century governmental measures for the conservation, management and development of salmon and herring stocks in the waters off British Columbia. These measures included intergovernmental agreements and conventions. At the time of this dispute, sockeye and pink and herring fisheries dominated commercial fishing of the Canadian West Coast. They gave employment to almost five- sixths of the workers in the British Columbia fish processing industry. Canada stated that the measures concerned were an integral and long-
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