The objective of this Convention is to maintain populations of yellow fin and skipjack tuna in the eastern Pacific Ocean to permit maximum sustained catches year after year.

Adopted on 31 May 1949 in Washington, D.C., the Convention entered in force on 3 March 1950.

Besides establishing an Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, the Convention set up a Commission to investigate the abundance, biology and ecology of the tuna, and of fishes used as bait in the tuna fisheries; to collect and analyse information; to publish such information and make recommendations for joint action by the parties to maintain tuna stocks.

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