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NOTES TO TABLE IV (cont'd.) 



For purposes here the 1975-77 average annual catch 

 figure is listed. Because it is somewhat more 

 conservative than the average annual catch figure 

 during the period 1965-77 (200,000 MT) listed else- 

 where in this statement, it offers a greater margin 

 of safety and potentially a broader range of manage- 

 ment options. 



6^/ The Agreement percentage shares for lobster in 

 Subdivision 5Ze are provisionally assumed to be 

 87.2 percent for the United States and 12.8 percent 

 for Canada, which are the relative shares each 

 country took of the total Subdivision 5Ze lobster 

 catch in 1975-77. 



Until a maritime boundary is determined there would 

 be nor expansion of either country's directed fishery 

 for lobster in the boundary region unless otherwise 

 agreed in the Commission established under the Agree- 

 ment. After a maritime boundary is established, each 

 country would manage and have exclusive access to 

 lobster on its side of the boundary, unless otherwise 

 mutually agreed. 



!_/ Percentage share that would prevail at the end of the 

 initial 6-year period the Agreement is in force. 



8^/ No assessment is available of the potential long term 

 annual average harvest of "other groundfish," as 

 defined in the Agreement, from Areas 5 and 6. Various 

 approximations based on historic catch levels could 

 be used. For purposes here the 1975-77 average annual 

 catch figure is listed. Because it is somewhat more 

 conservative than the average annual catch figures 

 during the period 1965-77 (70,000 MT) listed elsewhere 

 in this statement, it offers a greater margin of 

 safety and potentially a broader range of management 

 options. 



