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Under tlie agreement, even if the Canadian boundary 

 claim sliould fully prevail, U.S. fishermen are protected. 

 In the first ten years the United States could lose no more 

 than ten percent of its entitlement share for those stocks 

 for which it has a 50 percent or greater initial entitlement, 

 or five percent of those for whch it has less than a 50 

 percent initial entitlement. Even if redetermination of 

 entitlement took place each ten years, v/hich is allowed 

 but not required, under the Agreement, if the Canadian 

 claim should prevail in its entirety, the U.S. could lose 

 all of its claim to the resources in the disputed zone, 

 including the valuable Northeast Peak stocks. 



3 . Negotiate a Resource Agreement Subsequent to 

 Delimitation of a Maritime Boundary 



This alternative could involve accepting for a period 

 of several years, while the boundary was determined pre- 

 sumably through arbitration, the status quo of no resource 



