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in the general points that we made at the meeting itself, 

 that the "conservation arrangement", as it was called at 

 that time, to be established would in fact be specifically 

 called upon, or would be specifically empowered, to develop 

 and implement all necessary conservation regulations. 



And if the interpretation — if an interpretation of that 

 point in the report is contrary to that, then I think we would 

 certainly have to be ourselves aware of it: (a) in developing 

 our position on this issue; (b) and then once the position 

 is developed, in trying to negotiate it. 



MR. JAMES BARNES: Could we ask whether the United States 

 in the context of these recent negotiations made a commitment 

 of any sort to other nations in return for getting unanimous 

 agreement on the recommendations set up for the regime? If 

 they made some kind of a commitment not to push for some of 

 these economic -- or what I would call "economic regulations" 

 but maybe that's a term we should not be using because we 

 don't understand — 



But you know — things like allocations, gear and effort 

 restrictions? 



CHAIRMAN BREWSTER: No, it did not. Let me make two com- 

 ments about this phraseology, which may be helpful: 



One, it appears in the report of the Working Group. It 

 does not appear in the recommendation itself. 



Second, it had its origin in a concern expressed by sev- 

 eral states which are active in exploration of krill and 

 perhaps could be considered as moving most rapidly toward 

 commercialization. 



The concern was that the recommendation, as it stood, did 

 not make clear that conservation should not be interpreted to 

 prohibit all catch of krill. That definition was not incorpo- 

 rated in the recommendation. It found its way into the report 

 of the Working Group because the United States, as did other 

 countries, agreed that the term "conservation" did not exclude 

 exploitation of krill. 



MR. JAMES BARNES: Well, I think one of the things — and 

 this is really good to know because there has been an awful 

 lot of concern among organizations that we deal with — having 

 looked at the recommendations and so forth and not seeing 

 anything — 



Seeing a lot of very nice thoughts about conservation, etc. 

 -- but not anything about how you actually work it out. 



