International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Convention

INTERNATIONAL PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES CONVENTION (IPSFC), 4 Aug 1937, was a treaty between the US and Canada regulating sockeye and pink SALMON stocks in the FRASER R. Fishing interests had been worried for years about an apparent decline in the stocks, especially since the HELLS GATE BLOCKADE of 1913–14. Negotiations had resulted in the Fraser River sockeye salmon convention of 1930; this agreement had been approved by Canada but not by the US Senate. Finally, in 1937, the last American...

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