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Operation DRIFTNET is the Canadian Armed Forces operation conducted in support of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO). It delivers Canada's participation in multinational efforts to control driftnetting and other forms of illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing in the North Pacific Ocean. Operation DRIFTNET is conducted under a Memorandum of Understanding between DFO and the Department of National Defence. ==History== The first patrols of Operation DRIFTNET were flown in 1993. Fishing in the international waters of the Pacific Ocean was not regulated until 1952, when the International Convention for the High-Seas Fisheries of the North Pacific came into force under the aegis of the United Nations. By 1989, driftnet fishing was so common that up to 2 million square miles of nets were set each year. Between 1989 and 1991, the U.N. General Assembly made three increasingly stringent resolutions on driftnet fishing. The last of the series, Resolution 46/215 of 20 December 1991, called on all members of the international community to implement a global moratorium on large-scale pelagic driftnet fishing in international waters by 31 December 1992. In 1992, the Convention for the Conservation of Anadromous Stocks in the North Pacific Ocean replaced the International Convention for the High Seas Fisheries of the North Pacific and established the North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission (NPAFC). Canada, Japan, the Russian Federation and the United States are charter members of the NPAFC; the Republic of Korea joined as a full member in 2003, and the People's Republic of China became a non-member supporter in 2006. Member nations of the NPAFC work to detect and apprehend vessels involved in illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in the North Pacific. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Operation Driftnet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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