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Recognition is given to the special interest and preferential 
rights of coastal states. As a result, Poland accepts United 
States determination of total catch allowable for all species found 
off the Pacific coast and agrees to abide by a scheme by which that 
portion of the total allowable catch which the United States is 
unable to harvest is allocated among foreign fishermen. 
Additional restraints and controls are placed on the Polish 
fishing fleet in the form of quotas (specifically for hake), 
licensing restrictions (a decline in the number of licenses, 
15 to 12), and reduction of the number of fishing and processing 
vessels permitted off the United States coast (from 11 to 8). 
Poland also agrees to refrain from fishing the following stocks: 
Pacific salmon, halibut, rockfish, black cod, flounders, soles, 
Pacific mackerel, Pacific herring, and shrimp and other continental 
shelf resources. 
New area and time restrictions call for Polish abstention from: 
1) fishing year-round from 38° 30' North Latitude to the United 
States-Mexican border in order to protect rockfish and juvenile 
hake; and 2) fishing the area between 147° West and 157° West 
longitude for a nine-month period. 
This agreement appears most consistent with the provisions of the 
Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976. Due to the foresight 
with which this agreement was negotiated, a minimum of renegotiation 
may be expected. 
G. U.S.-Polish Agreement Regarding Fisheries in the Western Region 
of the Middle Atlantic Ocean 
The purpose of this agreement, signed June 2, 1973, and since 
extended, is to: 1) arrange for exchange of scientific data and 
promote cooperation among fishery research institutions (Article 1); 
2) initiate a system of closed seasons and closed areas in order to 
provide for the maintenance of fish stocks (Article 2 (1) (a and b)); 
3) limit incidental catch of particular species (Article 2 (1) (c)); 
4) prevent intentional and incidental catch of lobster by Polish 
fishing vessels (Article 2 (2) (a)); and 5) restrain Polish fishing 
vessels "from conducting specialized fisheries for yellowtail flounder 
and red hake off southern New England, bearing in mind the conservation 
regulations in effect pursuant to the International Convention for 
the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries" (Article 2 (2) ‘b)). The agreement 
also specifies in which areas and during what time Polish fishing 
vessels may conduct loading operations within the nine-mile contiguous 
fishing zone (Article 4), provides for entry into ports (Article 5), 
indicates possible arrangements for exchange of fisheries authorities 
(Article 6), and establishes a United States-Polish Fisheries 
Conciliation Board (Annex I). 
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