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on stock status and productivity, in order to guide development 

 of future management regimes. 



CHUM SALMON 



Annex IV, Chapter 6 on chum is intended to institutionalize 

 the Parties' commitment to intensify chum research and develop 

 joint management plans. A Joint Chum Technical Committee is to 

 be established to develop specific management measures for the 

 1985 season and thereafter. 



THE YUKON RIVER 



As noted earlier. Article VIII recognizes that the Yukon is 

 unique among the transboundary rivers. The distant stocks on 

 this geographically remote river are subject, in part, to another 

 treaty regime between the Parties and Japan. Accordingly, the 

 Parties provide that the equity provisions of Article III {l)(b), 

 and the special provisions for transboundary rivers are not 

 applicable to the Yukon. Additionally, recognizing that the 

 Yukon River interests are not provided any representation on the 

 Commission and the Panels, the Treaty provides for a separate 

 organizational structure to deal with Yukon River issues. 

 Consequently, these issues will not be subject to the 

 Commission's jurisdiction. 



The Parties agree, inter alia , to account for United States 

 harvests of salmon originating in the Canadian section of the 

 river. The Parties are not precluded from adopting the approach 



