That we do respectfully petition the Congress of the United States to consider with the greatest care the value of our salmon fisheries to Alaska. to the Pacific Northwest. and to the Nation as a whole. and to take all appropriate action necessary to preserve this industry by insisting upon language in the revised treaty that will furnish adequate protection for it. Mr. Speaker. this resolution is not an empty gesture. For years the Japanese high seas fisheries operations have seriously depleted the once abundant Pacific salmon stocks. The original North Pacific Treaty. signed in 1953. established an abstention line that. it was hoped. would separate the North American salmon stock from the Asiatic stock. It was the intent of the treaty to assure that United States and Canadian fishermen would avoid catching Asiatic stock and to offer the same protection for our salmon from Japanese fishermen. This was. and still is. an eminently reasonable approach. But it has not worked.