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implemented rapidly if, in light of unforeseen circum- 

 stances, a stock is threatened with serious and immediate 

 harm, or if there is an economic emergency in a fishery 

 that can be alleviated without significant adverse effects 

 on the conservation of the stock. Management measures for 

 Category C stocks (those managed exclusively by one country 

 or the other) could be amended at any time by the country 

 with exclusive management authority. 



Tl-e Aqr f tner t ' 3 mandqeaient principles require that 

 annual rfanaqoinerit measures be based on the best scientitic 

 information available. This requirement v;ill assure that 

 the countries profit trom increased scientific knowledge 

 of the fisheries. In addition, tliese principles require 

 that rr.anagoment measures take into account demonstrated 

 degrees of stock and species interrelationships. This 

 requireiTient would assure that the countries consider 

 n^ananement measures not only in terms of their effect on a 

 qiven stock, but on the relationship between that stock 

 and the ecosystem, of which it forms a part. Should our 

 expanding knov/ledge of such relationships increase to a 

 point enabling the countries to implement entirely new 

 manaqement strc^tegies, they would be able to do so by 

 agreement at any time. 



