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The stock is available in the undisputed fishery zones 

 of both countries, and fishing in either Canadian or U.S. 

 waters can affect the entire stock. In the absence of some 

 means of striking a balance between potentially divergent 

 interests, there is no assurance that each side will not 

 embark on its own management policies reflecting its own 

 conservation proprities and resulting in two separate 

 approaches to the same stock of fish. 



Similarly, in the absence of a fishery agreement, 

 disagreements are likely to continue over appropriate 

 national shares of annual harvests (even where these can be 

 agreed) from stocks to which both countries have access 

 either in their undisputed zones or in the boundary region 

 on Georges Bank. For example, in October 1978, in response 

 at least in part to what it perceived to be a relaxation 

 of U.S. regulations in the groundfish fishery on Georges 

 Bank, Canada relaxed trip limitations for its fishermen in 

 that fishery. By year's end, the combined U.S. and 

 Canadian catch of haddock in Subarea 5 and Statistical Area 

 6 exceeded 28,0U0 tons, whereas the New England Fishery 

 Management Council had established the optimum yield for 

 haddock at 20,000 tons. Similarly, U.S. and Canadian 

 catches of cod from Subdivision 5Z and Statistical Area 6 



