14. William B. Folsom and Dennis M. Weidner. Mauritania 's International Fishery Relations, published as Foreign 

 Fisheries Leaflet No. 76-4 by the Office of International Fisheries, NMFS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce, 

 Washington, April 1997. 



15. Jezequel, op. cit. 



16. International Commission for the SE Atlantic Fisheries. Collection of Scientific Papers. Part II. Madrid, various 

 years. 



17. FAO. Yearbook of Fishery Statistics: Catches and Landings. Rome, various years. 



18. Jezequel, op. cit. 



19. Ibid. 



20. The agreement entered into force on 3 February 1978. It remains in force automatically for successive 5-year 

 periods unless one of the contracting parties advises the other, in writing, 6 months prior to the expiration of the 

 agreement that it wants to withdraw. 



21. Sbomik Dvukhstoronnikh Soglashenyi SSSR po Voprosam Rybnogo Khoziayaistva, Rybolovstva i 

 Rybokhoziaystvennikh Issledovanyi. VNIRO, Moscow, 1987. 



22. Romania had a GIFA with the United Stotes since November 1976, but it expired in December 1988. 



23. Jezequel, op. cit. 



24. U.S. Department of State, 11 June 1993. 



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